Cruz Blasts Obama Admin Over Texas Border Crisis

Breitbart ^ | 12 Jun 2014 | Bob Price

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary over the ever growing number of unaccompanied children flooding into South Texas as a result of Obama’s immigration policies. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Capitol Wednesday morning.

Sen. Cruz laid out the enormity of the problem to Secretary Johnson by stating, “In 2011, there were roughly 7,000 unaccompanied minors who were apprehended. In 2012, that number rose to 14,000. In 2013, it rose to 24,000.”

In a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas, Cruz expounded, “In 2014, your agency is estimating it is going to be as high as 90,000. In 2015, the administration is estimating that it will rise all the way to 145,000.”

Cruz continued by blaming the crisis of these children and their deplorable circumstances directly on President Obama’s immigration policies. “Mr. Secretary, you testified to this committee the increase is a result of violence in Central America and there is surely violence in Central America, but if you look at the statistics…midway through 2012, was when Administration unilaterally granted amnesty to some 800,000 people who had been minors, with the so-called DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] proceeding.”

“And,” he continued, “you can see sometime after that the numbers spike dramatically. Is it really your testimony that granting amnesty to some 800,000 people who came here illegally as children had no effect in causing a dramatic increase of children being handed over to international drug cartels to be smuggled in here illegally?”

Cruz told Johnson, it is important to look at what these numbers represent. "These numbers represent children," Cruz firmly stated. "Little boys and little girls that their parents are handing over, not to some noble social workers who are trying to help them, they're handing over to international

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My theory is that they are children from orphanages and institutions, street kids, etc. They don’t have parents who care about them. Some may have been orphaned by the drug cartel activity. If they’re in their teens, they may have not been in contact with their parents, even if living, for awhile.
People do awful things to their own children, right here in Snohomish county, usually because of drugs or alcoholism. You don’t usually find a bunch of these people in the same place at the same time though. Whoever is behind this knows, though.