Posted on 05/12/2016 6:01:32 AM PDT by Jane Long
MCALLEN — The impact of people who enter the country illegally is costing taxpayers for now. The city of McAllen is helping with the current influx.
The tab is running. McAllen spent $365,736 since the first influx of Central Americans hit the Rio Grande Valley two years ago. Now, the city is preparing for another wave.
The goal is to goal is to get ahead of the game by talking to people who run the Sacred Heart Respite Center.
“We have communications on a daily basis, morning and afternoons,” said Josh Ramirez, McAllen Health Department director.
Two-hundred people were dropped off at the respite center on Tuesday.
“Border Patrol has told us that there's been an increase, like we've seen right now,” Ramirez said.
Last summer was busy, but not as much as the summer before that. Hundreds were at Sacred Heart every day in 2014.
Two donated tents were set up at the respite center. The city’s tents weren’t used over the past year-and-a-half. Now, those tents are on standby again.
The city is supplying cots and showers for people to use at the respite center.
“We brought additional cots for additional stay. Some people had to spend the night over. We didn't have enough cots,” Ramirez said.
The summer months ahead could be busy for Sacred Heart.
“We are heading in that direction. If we maintain 200 people a day, it’s going to be an extremely busy summer,” Ramirez said.
For now, Border Patrol, the Department of Public Safety and the city of McAllen are all watching the Rio Grande.
The money used toward the influx of people who cross illegally comes out of McAllen’s emergency response fund. It doesn’t come out of regular funds.
Currently, the city is still waiting to get reimbursed by the federal government.
Build that wall.
Illegals crossing into Texas, aided by YOUR tax $$ ping.
I interviewed for a job in Mcallen, it is Mexico. If you do not speak Spanish you will not get a job.
You have to be able to speak the language of the folks this town is ushering in, by the thousands....at OUR expense.
Thanks, GOPe....for remaining completely silent about this.
Build that wall, Mr Trump!!
Tax-paying voters are a minority. Ta-ta.
It is an awful long way to Jan 2017.
Plenty of time to bring in another million or so.
Meanwhile the 20 or so million already here are busy breeding on the taxpayer’s dime, while the pale-faces are busy living their lives and making sure they remain childless.
Trump is our last chance. If we really have a last chance.
I agree.
Where is my Gov Abbott on this? Where is the push back by ANY Pubbie on this blatant importing of thousands/million of Dem voters/welfare moochers?
I’m not really sure WHY we should feed them, house them, educate their muchachos, pay for their healthcare, etc. just because they break our laws to get here.
Her comment was "Where all the black people at?".
She said she was the only one.
As an aside, the "Sacred Heart Respite Center should be the "the Sacred Heart Repatriation Center".
Build the wall AND repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act.
I predict the elites will pull a dirty trick to eliminate Trump.
After that, our only option is the cartridge box.
I am preparing mentally for that.
Shouldn’t the militia be there turning back the hordes?
I’m not surprised. McAllen is a cesspool.
Shouldn’t the militia be there turning back the hordes?
Shouldn’t our elected Representatives be exposing - and trying to stop this, 24/7??
Yes. Yes they should.
If I remember correctly, MREs (Meals Rejected by Ethiopia) that we tried to choke down during Desert Shield/Storm came from McAllen, TX.
As far as I'm concerned they can sleep in a cholla patch
“Two-hundred people were dropped off at the respite center on Tuesday.”
I know where there are 200 wetbacks ready and waiting to be deported.
People just walking in and setting up camp and not much to
think of is being done about it? Why pay taxes? Why are the
sorry criminal employers, who are the main cause in all of this, left off the hook?
Personally I think that people that hire wetbacks should be
prosecuted on the same grounds as drug dealers. A 20 year
mandatory sentence and everything they own confiscated as
ill gotten gains. The trash needs to pay.
In a normal world, that would be exactly what would happen.
Now that we’re living in Marxist 0blama era, nothing is being done/allowed to stop this invasion....from EITHER side of the aisle.
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