Posted on 07/07/2014 7:46:15 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
President Obama may have described the waves of tens of thousands of migrant families flooding the southern border as a "humanitarian crisis," but it is a humanitarian crisis entirely of his own creation and one which he could end tomorrow if he wanted to. The Los Angeles Times reports:
President Obama and his aides have repeatedly sought to dispel the rumors driving thousands of children and teens from Central America to cross the U.S. border each month with the expectation they will be given a permiso and allowed to stay.
But under the Obama administration, those reports have proved increasingly true.
The number of immigrants under 18 who were deported or turned away at ports of entry fell from 8,143 in 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration, to 1,669 last year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data released under a Freedom of Information Act request.
Similarly, about 600 minors were ordered deported each year from nonborder states a decade ago. Ninety-five were deported last year, records show, even as a flood of unaccompanied minors from Central America — five times more than two years earlier — began pouring across the Southwest border.
This drop in deportations is driven entirely by policy decisions made by Obama. From 2010 through today, the Obama administration has released a series of memos directing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials not to enforce our nation's immigration laws.
Obama's June 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (which also gave certain illegal immigrants the ability to obtain a work permit, get a Social Security number, and apply for a driver’s license) is just the most public and promoted of these efforts.
This drop in deportations is driven entirely by policy decisions made by Obama. From 2010 through today, the Obama administration has released a series of memos directing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials not to enforce our nation's immigration laws.
Obama's June 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (which also gave certain illegal immigrants the ability to obtain a work permit, get a Social Security number, and apply for a driver’s license) is just the most public and promoted of these efforts.
In each of these cases, Obama has said his inherent enforcement powers as president, coupled with a lack of resources, allows him to pick and choose which immigration laws will actually be enforced.
Enter the 2008 William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act which requires border officials to send child migrants to the Department of Health and Human Services for processing. These migrants are also allowed to seek an asylum hearing before an immigration judge which takes time. Till then, most of the migrants are simply released in the United States and never sent home.
But not all migrants are taken in for processing. Again, from The Los Angeles Times:
Most of the minors are being held in Border Patrol stations in Texas and Arizona, and in emergency facilities set up by the Department of Health and Human Services on military bases and other sites. About 11,000, however, were from Mexico and were swiftly bused back across the border, as the law allows.
So Obama does have the capability to bus migrants back across the border. His administration is currently doing exactly that for Mexican migrants who illegally cross the border. But Obama is choosing not to bus back migrants form countries other than Mexico.
Why?
Yes, current immigration law as written does require ICE to process OTM migrants. But current immigration law also requires ICE to deport illegal immigrants found inside the United States. If Obama can ignore current immigration law on deportations, he can also ignore the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. In other words, if Obama's DACA program and other lax immigration enforcement policies are legal, then it is also legal for him to turn away those migraines flooding the border today.
But Obama does not want to solve the current border crisis. He wants the crisis to get bigger so he can use it to force the Republican Congress to negotiate on immigration. That is why he is asking for a change to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. Obama believes that if he can get House Republicans to change that law, then Democrats can tack on their much larger amnesty to the bill when it goes through the Senate.
Republicans can not play Obama's selective enforcement game. Obama unilaterally rewrote immigration law into this crisis, he can unilaterally rewrite himself out of it.
Of course not, since he manufactured it in the first place.
The stupid sob is going to let someone in from Syria, Libya, or Egypt that isn’t very happy with him.
Yes. He could self deport.
I wonder why anyone listens to 0bama - he just ignores laws he doesn’t like. Why would anyone think that passing any law would affect 0bama’s behavior in any way?
And if the DC court lets the passage of 0bamacare stand even though as a tax bill it did not originate in HOR, then it doesn’t matter. The Senate may originate spending and tax bills and may scuttle HOR spending and tax bills. Thus rendering the constitution void in yet another area.
This is all made possible by massive, organized criminal activity on the Mexican side of the border. These kids are being transported the entire length of Mexico by criminals. It seems to me that we have a ton of economic leverage over Mexico, which by using or threatening to use we could force them to do a lot more to stop this. For example, we could off direct flights, institute 100% searches of trucks and trains entering from Mexico, restrict the hours of legal crossings, require documentation of legal presence before allowing the transfer of money from the US to Mexico....
Well, if some highly motivated and crafty infiltrator SHOULD manage to slip through this sieve of a border we now have, and eventually track and put in the cross-hairs of a scope, the profile of the Illustrious Current Occupant now squatting in the Oval Office, it would only be poetic justice. But the Great Perpetraitor would not necessarily be the target, it would be some high-profile opponent to this same infiltration and degradation of our national integrity.
The foreign nationals that are unhappy with the US in general aren’t going to care about the fine nuances of the expressions of foreign or domestic policy. To them, ALL Americans are the enemy, and equally deserving of punishment.
I hope Obama campaigns with every Democratic Senator up for election. He is a good albatross.
Congress could stop Obama tomorrow... if they wanted.
At our small family July 4th gathering even the most hard core liberal in attendance was extremely ticked off about this border flood of criminals.
The liberals you are calling are actually blue collar Dems. Real liberals do not care about illegals, as long as they vote Dem and allow the rich liberals create a socialist dystopia. Blue collar Dems vote Dem because too many conservatives support free trade and have too much trust and faith in corporate America/Wall Street bankers.
Many here think the reason is that Obama is doing orchestrating this flood of children is to increase the democrat voter base.
I think the reason is to drive a wedge into republican party. To split us into three minor parties.
1. the conservatives who believe that we are a country of laws and the constitution is the foundation of our laws.
2. The Christian party who believes in following the example of Jesus and being charitable in caring for the less fortunate. ("whatever you do to the least of these you do unto me..").
3. The Chamber of Commerce party who sees the population getting older and the sees the need for a fresh influx of young working class people with large families to feed the Ponzi scheme we call our economy.
Every election they throw a couple of wedge issues at us and we fall for them, "hook, line, and sinker".
Well...that's why they consider Obama a friend.
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An election is coming up. The democrats need massive voter fraud to stay in power.
If Obama decides it is too much of a humanitarian crisis to have those kids risking their lives, his solution will probably be to send planes to the Central American capitals to pick up the kids there and bring them to the US.
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