My response from Mayor Parker of Houston

rfreedom4u

[rfreedom4u]

Dear Mr. (my name): There is a crisis brewing that disproportionately impacts border cities, putting a strain on their physical infrastructure. Sharing the physical burden of housing so many people relieves the immediate pressure on a handful of cities. We have a professional responsibility to assist other municipalities, just as we would in the aftermath of a natural disaster. There is a growing humanitarian need. We have a personal responsibility to assist human beings in distress. These are not undocumented workers flooding here to take low paying jobs. These are children, some as young as 2 or 3 years of age. We cannot simply put them on a bus or plane back to their home countries and hope someone picks them up at the depot. The undocumented children are all in federal custody. Any costs for housing these incarcerated children would be reimbursed by the federal government. Sincerely, Annise D. Parker Mayor

[cdcdawg]

“We cannot simply put them on a bus or plane back to their home countries and hope someone picks them up at the depot.”

Um, yes, we can do exactly that.

[Liz]

Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez and Guatemala President Otto Pérez Molina and their first ladies want their children back....... and they’re "willing to cooperate" with us to send their children back as quickly as possible........

Better add.....will cooperate "for a price".

Honduras demands US aid, suggests 'mini-Marshall plan for Honduras'...

Extortion comes to mind. They emptied out their villages with greedy visions of billions in remittances expected.

Now they want to cooperate? Call this a Third World scam by opportunists who smell money. ===========================================

REFERENCE US taxpayers handout billions in foreign aid to these do-nothing Third World hellholes--specifically earmarked to subsidize their poverty-stricken populations.

Time to cut off US aid to these corrupt, do-nothing governments. US aid should be suspended until the countries tell us where the aid money is going......and demand they put out appropriate messaging to counter the ads said to be fueling the horrendous surge at the border from Central America.

NOTE WELL: US Aid figures do not include military aid and aid from other US agencies: El Salvador: $280.4M Honduras: $680M Dominican Republic: $223.7M Mexico: $958.2M Guatemala: $391.8M

SOURCE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign_aid_received

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This report shows US aid $’s for the past few years (see page 9 (US Assistance) and pages 25-30 show various other agencies providing aid (DOD, etc.) (needs more research)

LINK http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42582.pdf

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THE FOREIGN AID MODUS OPERANDI---Former Guatemala Prez used US banks to launder millions (swindler was elected to "redistribute" the nation's wealth) An ex-president of Guatemala faced charges in NY that he used US banks to launder millions looted from his impoverished nation. Alfonso Portillo took office in 2000 pledging to redistribute Guatemala’s wealth.

Portillo, 61, allegedly ran scams to drain the impoverished country's coffers. The feds say Portillo embezzled about $2.5M provided by the Taiwanese embassy....$1.5 million was earmarked for “Libraries for Peace”....books for school kids.

Portillo personally endorsed three, $500,000 checks issued against an account at the Intl Bank of China in Manhattan, then deposited the cash in the Miami bank account of a Guatemalan bank controlled by “a close associate and political supporter” .....the money was funneled to bank accounts in Paris in the names of Portillo’s ex-wife and daughter.

Portillo swindled nearly $4M defense funds ...and plundered the national bank run by his alleged co-conspirator through overdrafts financed by public reserves -- stolen money paid for expensive watches and cars, for himself and his associates, according to the indictment. (Source: NY POST news report 5/28/13.)

[Slambat]

Good call Liz. And good post.

[markomalley]

So we can’t use the leftists’ guilt and “human rights” rhetorical tactics against them?

[Liz]

Guess not....LOL.

[Gritty]

These are children, some as young as 2 or 3 years of age. We cannot simply put them on a bus or plane back to their home countries and hope someone picks them up at the depot.

Why not? Their mothers did.

[dfwgator]

Show me the 2 and 3 year olds.......They don’t exist....They are teenagers.

[razorback-bert]