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Via CNS News

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the wide range of services the government is providing to unaccompanied minors who cross the border into the U.S. illegally will not encourage more of them to break the law.

At a press conference on Thursday at Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, CNSNews.com asked Johnson whether giving these children everything from transportation to housing, health care, education and even legal representation, is an incentive for more “unaccompanied minors” to come to this country.

“I would say no,” Johnson said. He noted that these children, most from Central America, are not eligible for the two-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — recently renewed for two more years – that give temporary legal status to people who came to the U.S before they turned 16; have continuously lived in the U.S. from 2007 to the present; and who entered the U.S. before June 2012.

Johnson also warned parents about the dangers of sending children – most of whom come from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras — into south Texas, where the greatest surge of these minors is taking place, according to Customs and Border Protection.

“Frankly, it is also hazardous to send a child into south Texas to a processing center. A processing center — and a number of us here have seen them ourselves – are no place for children,” Johnson said. “And to put a child into the hands of a criminal smuggling organization is not safe either.

“So, yes, we provide a number of things for children when we find them because the law requires it and because our values require it,” Johnson said. “But it is not safe; it is not a desirable situation, and I would encourage no parent to send their child, or send for their child, through this process.”

By law, HHS and its various divisions must provide for the custody and care of unaccompanied alien children.