Posted on 04/08/2015 6:03:17 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Coach or First Class?
Why walk through a desert to get to the United States when you can just fly?
That’s the new policy being adopted by the Obama administration for illegal alien children whose parents want them to come to the United States. As long as the parent maintains any kind of legal status they can apply to have their child picked up in central America and flown to the U.S. to be reunited.
Millions of children may qualify for the program under refugee status. And because of the refugee designation, once the children arrive in America their families can apply for tax-payer funded “family reunification benefits” that include education, food stamps, medical care and other living expenses.
When asked about the price tag for the program a White House spokesperson said they don’t really know, but they say the new policy is a “safe, legal and orderly alternative to the dangerous journey that some children are undertaking to the United States.”
Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch brings up the obvious question:
When you look at this program you have to wonder… why is there a border anyway?
(View video at link)
For illegal immigrants things just got a lot easier.
All that needs to happen now is for one parent to put their foot across the border. Since U.S. border patrol agents have been told to just let illegal aliens go (even drunk drivers), once they’re here they can apply for any number of “legal” statuses and have their families flown in.
They will, of course, never be deported because doing so to an entire family would be inhumane.
As Americans struggle to find jobs, keep food on their tables and pay forced health care mandates, the Obama administration is planning on granting amnesty to millions of people that, when they get here, have no ability to provide for themselves and no hope of finding a job in a country where over one-third of the population is no longer in the workforce.
The money will have to come from somewhere and it turns out that your pocket is that “somewhere,” because President Obama and supporters of these new policies say that we have a social responsibility to care for all Americans, even the ones that just got here yesterday.
Why is this regime still standing while it completes it's Satan directed chore of destroying America?
America has NO borders!
this is the calculated recolonization of America with illiterate 3rd worlders that have no values of liberty, freedom or self sufficiency
they are being seeded through “flyover country”- just look at the map
This breaking of the American rural heartland is straight out of Alinsky btw
Importing Democrat voters and expanding the size of government to provide endless welfare and social services. A liberal’s dream come true.
liberty, freedom or self sufficiency
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Three things you never hear liberals say.
IMHO, this is proof that the Kenyan has some severe mental issues.
What is the legal justification for this?
What is the purported purpose for this? (we know the real purpose)
How is this in the best interest of America and American citizens?
Where are the governmental checks and balances to rein in this out-of-control megalomaniac, King Obama?
No immigration policy or enforcement anymore during this reign of terror.
Obama’s persona has two main features:
1. He is mentally deranged.
2. He’s not very intelligent.
It’s not just the evil regime, it’s the evil surrender monkeys in Congress.
When Ted Cruz becomes president, his first order of business should be to set up series of cruise liners that carry them to Hawaii so they can be closer to their Dear Leader.
And then mine Honolulu harbor.
Spot on!
forcing us to pay for the destruction of our own country
these are enemies of the state ... importing more enemies of the state ... by forcing you to pay for it, under threat of violence
can anyone guess how the founders would’ve reacted?
The Reconquista will not stop with just the Southwest part of the territory once known as “the United States of America”.
It is bad enough that native-born children are being raised with no concept of what the land in which they, their parents, and grandparents were born and established in, once was and could still be again. These new strangers in our midst have even less of an idea of that dream, as it was never framed for them, and it probably conflicts with all they ever knew or expected of the world.
This was a technique perfected in the Soviet Union and most of the Eastern bloc countries after the Second World War - scattering populations from one part of the country to other random parts of the country, so there were Estonians and Latvians scattered to Georgia and Kazakhstan, and Chechnyans being distributed in the Ukraine and Moscow. Without a local regional identity, this was supposed to keep potential unrest to a minimum.
Kind of like busing school children from one district to another back in the 1970’s, which was a highly popular move at the time. (Darn it, do I HAVE to include the < / sarcasm > tag EVERY time?)
This is it folks. This is our last chance. Vote for Cruz or we go into a 50+ year decline.
“What is the legal justification for this?”
Also, where, on Earth, is the push back from Congress? Is it possible, that Congress will sit back, remain silent?
Have the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate caused to have printed in the Congressional Record the substance of such consultation? 8 U.S.C. § 1157(d)(2).
Has there been a hearing to review the proposal to increase refugee admissions? 8 U.S.C. § 1157(d)(3)(b).
Has the President fulfilled the "appropriate consultation" requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1157(b)(3)?
Has any waiver issued by the Attorney General been in writing and granted only on an individual basis following an investigation as required by 8 U.S.C. § 1157(c)(3)?
And since when is it the responsibility of the United States to provide aliens with transportation to the United States? Has Congress authorized such spending?
For convenience of reference:
8 U.S.C. § 1157 - Annual admission of refugees and admission of emergency situation refugees(a) Maximum number of admissions; increases for humanitarian concerns; allocations
(1) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the number of refugees who may be admitted under this section in fiscal year 1980, 1981, or 1982, may not exceed fifty thousand unless the President determines, before the beginning of the fiscal year and after appropriate consultation (as defined in subsection (e) of this section), that admission of a specific number of refugees in excess of such number is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.(2) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the number of refugees who may be admitted under this section in any fiscal year after fiscal year 1982 shall be such number as the President determines, before the beginning of the fiscal year and after appropriate consultation, is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.(3) Admissions under this subsection shall be allocated among refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United States in accordance with a determination made by the President after appropriate consultation.(4) In the determination made under this subsection for each fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 1992), the President shall enumerate, with the respective number of refugees so determined, the number of aliens who were granted asylum in the previous year.
(b) Determinations by President respecting number of admissions for humanitarian concernsIf the President determines, after appropriate consultation, that(2) the admission of certain refugees in response to the emergency refugee situation is justified by grave humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest, and(3) the admission to the United States of these refugees cannot be accomplished under subsection (a) of this section, the President may fix a number of refugees to be admitted to the United States during the succeeding period (not to exceed twelve months) in response to the emergency refugee situation and such admissions shall be allocated among refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United States in accordance with a determination made by the President after the appropriate consultation provided under this subsection.
(c) Admission by Attorney General of refugees; criteria; admission status of spouse or child; applicability of other statutory requirements; termination of refugee status of alien, spouse or child(1) Subject to the numerical limitations established pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the Attorney General may, in the Attorney General’s discretion and pursuant to such regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe, admit any refugee who is not firmly resettled in any foreign country, is determined to be of special humanitarian concern to the United States, and is admissible (except as otherwise provided under paragraph (3)) as an immigrant under this chapter.(2)(A) A spouse or child (as defined in section 1101 (b)(1)(A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of this title) of any refugee who qualifies for admission under paragraph (1) shall, if not otherwise entitled to admission under paragraph (1) and if not a person described in the second sentence of section 1101 (a)(42) of this title, be entitled to the same admission status as such refugee if accompanying, or following to join, such refugee and if the spouse or child is admissible (except as otherwise provided under paragraph (3)) as an immigrant under this chapter. Upon the spouse’s or child’s admission to the United States, such admission shall be charged against the numerical limitation established in accordance with the appropriate subsection under which the refugee’s admission is charged.(B) An unmarried alien who seeks to accompany, or follow to join, a parent granted admission as a refugee under this subsection, and who was under 21 years of age on the date on which such parent applied for refugee status under this section, shall continue to be classified as a child for purposes of this paragraph, if the alien attained 21 years of age after such application was filed but while it was pending.(3) The provisions of paragraphs (4), (5), and (7)(A) of section 1182 (a) of this title shall not be applicable to any alien seeking admission to the United States under this subsection, and the Attorney General may waive any other provision of such section (other than paragraph (2)(C) or subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (E) of paragraph (3)) with respect to such an alien for humanitarian purposes, to assure family unity, or when it is otherwise in the public interest. Any such waiver by the Attorney General shall be in writing and shall be granted only on an individual basis following an investigation. The Attorney General shall provide for the annual reporting to Congress of the number of waivers granted under this paragraph in the previous fiscal year and a summary of the reasons for granting such waivers.(4) The refugee status of any alien (and of the spouse or child of the alien) may be terminated by the Attorney General pursuant to such regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe if the Attorney General determines that the alien was not in fact a refugee within the meaning of section 1101 (a)(42) of this title at the time of the alien’s admission.
(d) Oversight reporting and consultation requirements(1) Before the start of each fiscal year the President shall report to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate regarding the foreseeable number of refugees who will be in need of resettlement during the fiscal year and the anticipated allocation of refugee admissions during the fiscal year. The President shall provide for periodic discussions between designated representatives of the President and members of such committees regarding changes in the worldwide refugee situation, the progress of refugee admissions, and the possible need for adjustments in the allocation of admissions among refugees.(2) As soon as possible after representatives of the President initiate appropriate consultation with respect to the number of refugee admissions under subsection (a) of this section or with respect to the admission of refugees in response to an emergency refugee situation under subsection (b) of this section, the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate shall cause to have printed in the Congressional Record the substance of such consultation.(3)(A) After the President initiates appropriate consultation prior to making a determination under subsection (a) of this section, a hearing to review the proposed determination shall be held unless public disclosure of the details of the proposal would jeopardize the lives or safety of individuals.(B) After the President initiates appropriate consultation prior to making a determination, under subsection (b) of this section, that the number of refugee admissions should be increased because of an unforeseen emergency refugee situation, to the extent that time and the nature of the emergency refugee situation permit, a hearing to review the proposal to increase refugee admissions shall be held unless public disclosure of the details of the proposal would jeopardize the lives or safety of individuals.
(e) “Appropriate consultation” definedFor purposes of this section, the term “appropriate consultation” means, with respect to the admission of refugees and allocation of refugee admissions, discussions in person by designated Cabinet-level representatives of the President with members of the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and of the House of Representatives to review the refugee situation or emergency refugee situation, to project the extent of possible participation of the United States therein, to discuss the reasons for believing that the proposed admission of refugees is justified by humanitarian concerns or grave humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest, and to provide such members with the following information:(2) A description of the number and allocation of the refugees to be admitted and an analysis of conditions within the countries from which they came.(3) A description of the proposed plans for their movement and resettlement and the estimated cost of their movement and resettlement.(4) An analysis of the anticipated social, economic, and demographic impact of their admission to the United States.(5) A description of the extent to which other countries will admit and assist in the resettlement of such refugees.(6) An analysis of the impact of the participation of the United States in the resettlement of such refugees on the foreign policy interests of the United States.To the extent possible, information described in this subsection shall be provided at least two weeks in advance of discussions in person by designated representatives of the President with such members.
(f) Training(1) The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall provide all United States officials adjudicating refugee cases under this section with the same training as that provided to officers adjudicating asylum cases under section 1158 of this title.(2) Such training shall include country-specific conditions, instruction on the internationally recognized right to freedom of religion, instruction on methods of religious persecution practiced in foreign countries, and applicable distinctions within a country between the nature of and treatment of various religious practices and believers.Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1157
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