Not on Obama’s Texas Itinerary: The Border

NationalReview ^ | July 6, 2014 | John Fund

[Tennessee Nana]

San Diego — President Obama will visit Texas this week for three political fundraisers. One place he will not visit while in Texas: the Mexican border. A border visit is apparently not necessary, in Obama’s view, to monitor the crisis that has seen thousands of migrants — including unaccompanied children — flood into the United States.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest bizarrely says that people criticizing Obama’s failure to visit the border would “rather play politics than actually try to address some of these challenges.” The president, it seems, will “lead from behind” once again. All this has been too much for Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat who represents the border city of Laredo. “They should have seen this coming a long time ago . . . because we saw those numbers increasing,” he said today on CNN’s State of the Union. Cuellar admitted that our current system creates perverse incentives. “There is an incentive that if you bring your child over here, or you’re a child by yourself, you’re going to be let go. And that’s exactly what’s happening,” he said. “Our immigration courts are so backlogged. There’s not enough detention spaces. . . . This is the incentive we have to take away.” As for Obama’s pledge to send more personnel to the border, Cuellar didn’t sound confident: “I think he’s still one step behind. They knew this was happening a year ago. . . . and they are not reacting fast enough at this time.”

[Tennessee Nana]

David Gregory: Does the president need to go to the border, should he visit when he goes there this week ?

Jeh Johnson: The president cant be every place he'd like to be or even should be..

NBCNEWS Meet the Press Sunday July 6, 2014

[Tennessee Nana]

I reposted this article because the one saf posted doesn’t seem to have a way to add comments...

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[FES0844]

Everyone should call the WH & demand he meet with Gov. Perry.

[Tennessee Nana]

The president cant be every place he....should be

[justa-hairyape]

Jeh Johnson: The president cant be every place he'd like to be or even should be..

Obviously the US needs to put golf courses along the border. Then the fences might even get built.

[nascarnation]

Is Abortion Barbie in the campaign posse or is she avoiding him?

Just curious....

[Tennessee Nana]

Gov Perry first gave Obama a letter at an airport in 2010 about the flood across the border and asking for more agents, or national guard etc

Perry said the other day that he still hasn’t had an answer...

[morphing libertarian]

Jail

[morphing libertarian]

Apparently he can be at fundraisers but not where there is a national crisis.

[Tennessee Nana]

SSSSSSHHHH

That has to be racist to notice that..

[RedMDer]

Drop them off by Air Force One.

[Don Corleone]

Obama has given the finger to the country, the congress, the Constitution and the host of nations that once were our allies. He has been a busy little Marxist. He hasn’t time to visit a stinkin’ border town.

[stanne]

why doesn’t perry take matters into his own hands?

[Tennessee Nana]

He has to have Obamas permission to call out the National Guard..

The federal government pays their wages and equips them..

[Old Yeller]

why doesn’t perry take matters into his own hands?

Why don't we?

[SoConPubbie]

Sadly, The Border isn’t on the GOP-E Agenda either, except as a means of scoring political points on their march to legislating Amnesty.

[stanne]

Everyone should call rick Perry and demand that he give up hoping Obama is going to do anything but enhance this invasion.

Honestly anyone with a brain can see this

[SoConPubbie]

Everyone should call the WH & demand he meet with Gov. Perry.

Why would he do that after Rick Perry called conservatives "Heartless" for wanting to deport Illegal Aliens?

Rick Perry is another of that brand of Republican who likes to state and do symbolic things that never accomplish anything.

Do you really believe that Rick Perry means to accomplish stopping the influx of Illegals from the Southern Border by sending more DPS officers to the border?

Given his Open Borders positions on everything from AZ1070, to e-Verify, to Comprehensive Immigration reform, you'll see no positive outcome from his much bally-hooed order to send DPS to the border.

[SoConPubbie]

He has to have Obamas permission to call out the National Guard..

Sounds like just the excuse that Rick "Open Borders" Perry would use to show that his hands are tied, all the while he had the authority to call out the Texas Rangers, DPS, and Texas Militia to defend the border.

Will he actually do something that will solve the problem, NO, but he will make a lot of noise like he is trying.

It's the GOP-E, and Rick Perry way of keeping the base under control!