A federal judge in California has ruled that hundreds of illegal immigrant women and children in U.S. holding facilities should be released, another apparent setback for President Obama’s immigration policy, according to The Los Angeles Times.
U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee said Friday that the conditions in which the detainees are being held are “deplorable” and violate parts of an 18-year-old court settlement that put restrictions on the detention of migrant children.
The ruling also raises questions about what the administration will do with the estimated 1,700 parents and children at three detention facilities, two in Texas and one in Pennsylvania.
Last year, tens of thousands of women and unaccompanied minors from Central America arrived at the Southwest border, with many believing a rumor that unaccompanied children and single parents with at least one child would be allowed to stay.
I really resent the judge certainly for releasing them but much more so for conditions he called "deplorable". We're not running a five-star hotel for these would be criminals. Let it be as deplorable as possible to let it burnish in their brains and tell their cockroach relatives, all Phd candidates from Mexico's finest universities back home not to show up. If for some reason the judge had to harbor some illegal, he'd keep him in his barn and not in his home. The sign outside the facility should read "Your Eleven Million Illegal Peers Welcome You To the Democratic Party"
Those 4-star hotels just are deplorable. /s
From http://capitolcityproject.com/obamas-hhs-paid-baptist-charity-182129786-house-illegal-alien-children-four-months/
Obama’s HHS paid one organization over $280 million to house illegal alien children in 2014
The Department of Health and Human Services dished out over $182 million to one organization in order to house unaccompanied illegal alien children over the span of four months, according to documents released on December 3. The taxpayer funds ended up covering the likes of free laptops, big screen TVs, and pregnancy tests. In 2014 alone, the group was awarded well over $280 million in federal grant money and surpasses $460 million when factoring in 2013. This is just one group in a sprawling network of those sheltering illegal alien children.
The December 3 documents, obtained by Judicial Watch, show BCFS, formerly known as Baptist Children and Family Services, was paid $182,129,786 in order to provide “basic shelter care” for 2,400 “unaccompanied alien children” (UAC) during a four month span.The budget included charges of $104,215,608 for the 1,200 UAC’s at a Fort Sill, Oklahoma center and another $77,914,178 for the 1,200 UACs at the Lackland Air Force Base shelter located in San Antonio, Texas. From June 12 to October 18, these figures equate to $86,846.34 for every illegal alien child housed at Ft. Sill and $64,928 per illegal alien child from May 18 to September 18 at the Lackland Air Force Base location. On top of this, $2,648,800 was given as compensation to members of the BCFS “Incident Management Team” — or $88,293 per person.
Other expenses at the Ft. Sill facility included hotel accommodations running a tab of $6,765,000, food costs of $75 per day for 3 meals and 2 snacks for each illegal alien child provided by a local catering service totaling $18,198,000, and $1,120,400 worth of medical supplies. Additionally, board games, soccer balls, basketballs, jump ropes, bracelet making kits, yarn, puzzles, arts and crafts, decks of cards, and eye-hand coordination game sets were provided at the cost of $180,000. Educational items — including tempera paint, paint markers, paint brushes, easel brushes, art paper and multicultural crayons — were $180,000. The children were also provided laptops for $200,000 and cell phones costing $160,000.
At the Lackland Air Force Base facility, utility expenses included cable television with a video screen/projector set up so the children could view the likes of sports and movies — for $20,000. Also set aside was $576,000 to allow them to call their families twice a week and $80,000 for shower stalls.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said it’s outrageous the Obama administration would provide illegal alien children with such luxurious items that many Americans could not even purchase.
“It is outrageous that the Obama administration spent nearly $200 million of taxpayer funds to provide illegal alien children with the types of extravagant high-tech equipment and lavish benefits many American families cannot even afford for their own children,” Fitton said.
“And very few American workers are bringing home the $80,000 the Obama administration pays the BCFS’s Incident Management Team for just four months’ work. Obama’s lawlessness resulted in an illegal alien ‘surge‘ that has cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in 2014. Based on his new lawless amnesty plans, we can expect hundreds of millions more in taxpayer costs for the resulting wave of illegal aliens trying to take advantage of Obama’s illegal nullification of our nation’s immigration laws,” he concluded.
In fiscal year 2014, the BCFS has been awarded $288,801,735, according to the Tracking Accountability in Government Grant Systems. Including FY 2013, they’ve been given an astounding $466,360,582.
Obama’s visit with the CEO of BCFS
On July 9, 2014 President Obama landed in Dallas to meet with Texas leaders including Governor Rick Perry and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings to discuss the rapid influx of illegal alien children across the border. Later that same day, he would head to Austin to attend a DNC fundraiser at the home of filmmaker Robert Rodriguez with the likes of Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Demi Lovato and Danny Trejo.
“In the late afternoon of July 9, Air Force One touched down at Love Field in Dallas. President Barack Obama ducked into a private room at the airport for a discussion about the crisis of undocumented children crossing the southwest border. Assembled around a wooden table were top Texas officials, including Governor Rick Perry and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, as well as the leaders of several faith-based charities. One of them was a man so anonymous, the White House pool report misspelled his name,” TIME wrote of the meeting.
The “anonymous” man TIME spoke of was Kevin Dinnin, CEO of BCFS — the group given over $460 million in awards to house the unaccompanied alien children since the beginning of FY 2013. Just two days before Obama’s visit, on July 7, another grant was bestowed upon BCFS in the amount of $190,707,50.
Housing UAC’s proves to be a lucrative business for Dinnin, as he’s pulled in $450,000 in compensation in 2012 with four others making at least $200,000.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell on July 17 pressing for answers on housing these unaccompanied minors and requesting information on BCFS.
“On July 8, 2014, President Obama requested $3.7 billion to address the increase in unaccompanied minors and illegal immigration on the Southwest Border. As Congress considers this request, it is critical to ensure that these funds, if appropriated, would be spent wisely,” Grassley wrote. “Recent news reports regarding the awarding of a $50 million contract to Texas-based non-profit BCFS, and your statement to Senators yesterday that housing a minor costs between $250 to $1,000 a day, raises serious questions about whether taxpayer dollars are being used wisely.”
After public backlash, the $50 million bid for the illegal alien children’s spa Grassley spoke of was revoked.
He continued in his letter to HHS, “On July 14, 2014, KRGV-TV reported that BCFS received a $50 million contract to turn the Palm Aire Hotel and Suites into a 600 bed “center for unaccompanied minors.” This facility would replace a 300 bed center BCFS that already operates in Harlingen, Texas. Currently, the Palm Aire, which refers to itself as “the Rio Grande Valley’s leading destination resort,” is open to hotel guests and boasts racquetball, an Olympic size pool, fitness center, steam room, sauna, and Jacuzzis. Given the potential size of BCFS’ contract, it appears that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is willing to pay at least $83,000 per bed. However as BCFS is eliminating the 300 beds available in Harlingen, the true cost to the taxpayer may be over $166,000 per bed, or $13,889 per month per child.”
