Posted on 05/17/2019 7:13:35 PM PDT by Leaning Right
Over five years?
There are about that many who are being caught and released every month and a half, so far this year. I guess the bulk of them will have to find other means of transportation into the heart of the nation.
From the above: "Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. "
Congress gave the President the power to forbid entry into the USA of any immigrant according to the above law.
Trump is playing games, stringing this along for the 2020 election. I'm seeing a lot of disgruntled voters thus far. Imagine a year from now at 100,000 additional invaders every month. And Trump still insisting it's out of his hands.
He promised to fix it. He's either a liar or he's horribly inept. One is as bad as the other.
Ah, for the days when the US would march out migrants from Indiana all the way to Mexico because of the Depression.... Roosevelt was clearly right of center on that ...
Good post. If you had posted that back in 2017, you would have caught a lot of flak. But now, many folks here will agree with you.
Side comment: I live in a rusty old mill town. And for the past year I’ve noticed Muslims everywhere. I never saw that before. What the hell is going on???
Oh, and for those who think that’s a racist comment, wrong! I’ve got nothing against folks who are very different than me. Hindus, Buddhists, etc. Good day to you all. I know you have no desire in your heart to see me dead.
But Muslims, they are taught to despise the infidel. And that infidel is me.
deer rifles
Send them all to California, either LA or San Francisco or some combination of the two.
From your link, the entire depressing and surreal article ....
The Trump administration is looking to hire a private contractor that will be responsible for transporting approximately 225,000 migrant children and families to shelters across the country over the next five years as they wait for their asylum claims to be processed.
ICE (the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency) is seeking the services of a “highly responsible” contractor that “fully embraces the philosophy” of treating all unaccompanied minors (UACs) and family units (FAMUs) with “dignity and respect,” according to a federal procurement document dated May 13.
The private company will be hired to transport approximately 60,000 people a year. It will work to arrange commercial flights and ground transportation for migrant children up to age 17 as well as adults with children and will provide food, clothing and hygiene products during transit.
“Sometimes the contractor will have to plan commercial or charter flights in a period of less than 24 hours,” the document states, highlighting an increased need for “on demand escort-services” as the Trump administration addresses a large influx of migrants from Central America who come to the U.S.-Mexico border to claim asylum.
President Trump announced a plan to “transform” America’s immigration system on Thursday, introducing a system to favor admissions based on job skills rather than family ties. The proposal would judge immigrants with a points-based system that would favor high-skilled workers — accounting for age, English proficiency, education and whether the applicant has a well-paying job offer.
Over the course of a five-year contract, the migrants will be relocated from their points of entry or staging locations to Office of Refugee Resettlement shelters or family residential centers across the nation.
The document did not specify where exactly the migrants will be moved but said the Office of Refugee Resettlement has the “sole authority” to place unaccompanied minors and families.
“ICE has zero tolerance for any forms of sexual abuse and assault,” the document states while delegating the responsibility to vet new hires to the contracting company, business publication Quartz, which originally obtained the copy of the federal document, reported.
From the Quartz link, embedded in your linked article.....
ICE plans to transport 225,000 immigrant kids to shelters over the next five years
May 16, 2019
The Trump administration is looking for a private contractor to move the dramatically increasing number of children detained at the US border with Mexico to shelters across the country.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says it needs a “highly responsible” company to accompany tens of thousands of juvenile asylum seekers and families to the shelters every year, according to a newly issued federal procurement document reviewed by Quartz.
A draft solicitation dated May 13 seeks “on-demand escort services for non-criminal/non-delinquent UAC and FAMUs ranging from infants to 17 years of age and adults with a family, seven (7) days a week, 365 days a year.” (In US immigration terminology, “UACs” are “unaccompanied children,” and “FAMUs” are “family units.”)
The winning bidder will arrange commercial airline and bus trips for roughly 60,000 people per year, the document says. Over the course of a five-year contract, the contractor will transport an estimated 225,000 unaccompanied children from “infants to 17 years of age,” as well as adults with families, and will be responsible for everything from buying plane tickets to supplying food, clothing, and procuring healthcare while in transit.
The solicitation highlights both the changing nature of immigration on the US southern border, and the expanding reach of Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies. Trump is spending billions of taxpayer dollars to detain immigrants who have not committed any crime, move them to a growing number of detention centers, and house them there for weeks or months thanks in part to a “zero tolerance” policy that automatically puts asylum-seekers into government custody. This week, a fourth immigrant child in US custody died after being detained on the southern border.
At the same time, Trump is reportedly enthusiastic about a “merit-based” immigration scheme proposed by his adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, which would prioritize things like education and English skills over family ties and “chain migration.”
The 60,000 children and families ICE will transport each year represents a significant annual increase. In 2016, 2017, and 2018, the agency transported a total of 143,000 children and families, combined. ICE’s 70-page request for proposals instructs potential bidders on topics ranging from how to avoid speaking with the media to guidelines on when full-body restraints may be used on juveniles.
The document notes that “ICE has zero tolerance for any forms of sexual abuse and assault,” but gives the contracting company full responsibility for vetting hires for criminal backgrounds.
Children “being transported shall not be left in a locked, unattended vehicle,” it notes. A previous contract for similar services over five years, first reported by the Daily Beast, was worth $277 million.
The fact that ICE is relocating children from border holding facilities to shelters is not necessarily itself a bad thing, say immigration experts, but there’s no legal reason to detain families who are seeking asylum. Overall, the contract epitomizes a fundamental flaw in Trump’s overall policy.
Figuring out how to manage more detainees “is not the solution,” says Ur Jaddou, director of watchdog group DHS Watch and former lead counsel at US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Instead, the administration should be working with refugee-resettlement groups, the UN, and foreign governments to lessen the flow of immigrants, and trying to keep people out of detention.
“This is not a new problem,” Jaddou tells Quartz.
ICE did not respond to a request for comment.
A private alternative
Immigration on the southern US border has been marked in recent years by an uptick in families with children seeking asylum, as they flee gang violence and other harsh conditions in Central America. Trump administration policies also created more “unaccompanied children” by detaining their parents, and introducing new policies for US guardians that
The agency’s new solicitation indicates continuing detentions for families, despite the rights of asylum-seekers and growing concerns about the expense.
ICE says the increasing number of unaccompanied minors apprehended “continues to create numerous operational challenges,” and that it is working on ways to improve the way it processes and relocates them. Of the quarter-million families it expects to transport, ICE says about 90% will travel by air. A number of US airlines have refused to fly children separated from their parents by the government.
800% capacity increase for kids
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a unit of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) immediately responsible for unaccompanied children, has seen a huge uptick in demand, the ICE solicitation notes. In September 2011, ORR’s capacity was less than 2,000 beds. As of October 2018, ORR’s capacity exceeded 16,050 beds, most of them at the southern border.
The Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy, coupled with its controversial and short-lived “family separation” policy that took even nursing toddlers from asylum-seeking parents, seems to have overwhelmed HHS, according to congressional testimony. As of February, an HHS official told Congress the agency couldn’t say how many children had been separated under the policy because the government hadn’t properly tracked them; a January 2019 inspector general’s report estimates there may be thousands more immigrant kids separated from their parents than previous estimates.
The new solicitation appears to transfer at least some responsibility to a private contractor. If appropriate travel plans can’t be made, the contractor is responsible for “generating transport documents, records and reports,” and may have to keep the kids in their custody overnight.
“Use of the contractor’s staging/waiting room satellite office space will be limited to 12 hours or less, and allow for ready access to food, water, clean clothes, hygiene products, and comfortable furniture,” the ICE document states.
This has presented problems in the past. As Aura Bogado of Reveal News reported last year, unaccompanied children being transported for ICE by MVM Inc., a Virginia-based defense contractor, were being housed overnight in offices and were forced to bathe in restroom sinks.
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Gee....won’t commercial flying be great, with all of these invaders catching free rides (paid for by We the Taxpayer) on our flights?
Coming to a city near YOU!!
Ping to 27 and 28.
I thought the courts ruled they can be sent back to mexico to await their asylum trials.
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Looks like they need to be gerrymandered into safely blue congressional district sanctuary cities and state where their votes won’t effect electoral college
‘Asylum seekers’ are a scam for the most part...this an invasion of foreign nationals believing they will get free stuff in the land of suckers and fools...
Asylum is the biggest scam going these days.
How about NO ! NOT A SINGLE "HUMANITARIAN" CASE
Exactly.. This is total BS. Why not stack them right up on the border, with shelters right there? Okay, so somehow we have to let them loose, if you will. But that doesn’t mean that we need to provide shelter other than at the border. There is no immigration law we have that says we need to fly and disperse them to states across the country.
I keep thinking this increased influx goes back to when Ivanka and Melania got so upset and went to the border to tour and then assure that we were somehow way nicer than even Obama had been to them. It was showing how much we have “heart” that made this whole situation worse than it was.
Okay, here is where Barry’s admin was shipping unaccompanied minors to “sponsors” and then not checking up on them as to whether the “sponsors” were actually child traffickers or whether the children were appearing before their eventual hearings:
But those are the unaccompanied ones. The big uproar in the spring of 2018 had been when the Trump admin was separating the children from their parents, and detaining the parents, before their hearings. Again, I don’t get this in that it seems such accompanied children ought to be detained with their parents.
So we’re made to “free” them pending hearings. I still don’t get why we have any possible obligation to give them shelter other than right at the border. Doing so should also incentivize the border states to do more about the invasion (such as happily supply their National Guards to Trump to help to stem the tide).
Again, if we are supplying housing to them until we somehow can legally kick them out, that housing should be right at the border, where we can keep an eye on them. The idea of spreading such housing across our country is sick.
Sour grapes - everyone got used to winning but now are losing one and so the screaming and pointing begins ...
“Why was nothing done during those two golden GOP years of 2017 and 2018? Why didn’t Trump use his bully pulpit more effectively?”
During those golden GOP years:
1). The majority of GOP members of the House and Senate were moderates who did not want to be aggressive on immigration. The GOP Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan was often working against president Trump. Even today the majority of GOP Senators are weak on immigration issues.
2). The major party candidates typically have a team working to identify people for key appointed positions while the campaign is going on. Once elected they have people identified, selected, and names ready to send to Congress the day after the election. Trump simply failed to get this critical job done. In the weeks following the election he was scrambling to find people to fill jobs. This is one reason there were so many Obama holdovers in place long after Inauguration Day. Not to mention the reason he ended up filling many jobs with Republican hacks who had no ideological mooring or loyalty to him.
3). Clinton and Obama did an excellent job of filling the bureaucracy with committed social justice warriors. George W. Bush didn’t even attempt weed out the Clinton people. Trump heads a bureaucracy filled with leftists who are masters at delaying and undermining initiatives of a president whose objectives are counter to theirs.
4). Trump was under relentless attack by the media, Democrats, and the Mueller investigation from the beginning. Not to mention members of his own party such as McCain, Corker, Flake, Sasse, Collins, Paul Ryan, Romney. There was an all out effort by the intelligence agencies, federal bureaucracy, Democrats, the media, and moderates in his own party to push him to resign. Most presidents have a 6 month honeymoon period where many of the new administration’s objectives are announced and passed by Congress. This president had no honeymoon.
5). Trump is a pragmatist dealmaker. He pushes hard but will compromise to get a deal done. He is not a conservative ideologue.
6). Rogue federal judges have frequently blocked administration efforts to fix some of the immigration issues.
7). The big picture immigration issue is bigger than a wall. Build the southern wall and the stream of illegal immigrants will continue across the northern border, through our ports, and through misuse of the asylum program. In addition the problem of locating and deported people who overstay visas needs to be addressed. Finally, as Trump continually points out, the quality of legal immigrants needs to be addressed. The immigration big picture can only be fixed through legislation. Democrats and moderate Republicans in Congress do not want a comprehensive fix. Therefore, nothing happens.
TRANSPORT THEM BACK, they don’t belong here and we don’t want them
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