"Two teenage asylum seekers from Guatemala have escaped a detention center in Illinois and carjacked a 91-year-old Navy veteran.

The incident has prompted the federal government to order a security review at all 139 shelters across the country that house illegal immigrant minors, MailOnline can exclusively reveal.

The boys, age 16 and 17, were able to walk away unchallenged from Maryville Academy in Des Plaines, Illinois, outside Chicago, on Wednesday morning and carjack two victims before they were arrested more than 225 miles away outside Iowa City, Iowa, according to authorities.

Police say they targeted an elderly man in Moline, Illinois, who was picking up his prescription at Walmart.

They threatened him with violence, forced him out of his car and then sped off with his Buick LeSabre...

Illinois welcomed the minors with open arms, with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel saying he wanted 1,000 more kids brought to his city.

Federal law says minors cannot be deported without a refugee hearing, but the backlog in immigration courts can be months.

Nearly all of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors have been released to family members or sponsors in the US.

Those who couldn't be placed with families remain in facilities contracted by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Mr Wolfe, the HHS spokesman, told MailOnline that the escape has prompted the Office of Refugee Resettlement to take 'immediate steps to ensure that all (refugee resettlement) programs continue to provide a safe and secure environment.' "

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...vy-veteran.html

Immigrant "children" are now 16 & 17, huh?

"Review" is bureaucrat speak for they won't do jack shit.

How about sending them back to Guatemala and letting Guatemala worry about their own citizens?