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WASHINGTON — Petitions and letters to members of Congress and the Obama administration are among the measures being pursued by advocates urging humane treatment of the Central American children who are trying to migrate to the United States. A petition delivered July 10th to members of Congress, President Obama and Jeh Johnson called for a humanitarian approach to the surge of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala that has overwhelmed the government’s capacity to handle them. Elsewhere, the California Catholic Conference and the U.S. Jesuit Conference and Jesuit Refugee Service weighed in on the topic. Signed by nearly 4,000...

The irony here is inescapable: At a time when Republicans are increasingly criticizing President Obama for bypassing Congress and taking unilateral action, that could be the best solution to the child immigrant crisis. The chief problem surrounding the migration of thousands of children from Central America is a 2008 law designed to fight child prostitution. Whereas undocumented children from Mexico or Canada can be immediately returned to their home countries, this law generally doesn't allow that option for children from other countries. Instead of a quick return, the children from Central America go into a legal and bureaucratic system that...

HOUSTON -- Even the people who represent undocumented children don’t know how long those children flooding the border may get to stay here. The law changes that led to this flood started small, well intended, ”But whenever there is a crack in the system people will try to bust it up and drive a truck through it,” said Gordon Quan, a 37 year immigration lawyer. It may seem like an instant crisis a system overwhelmed by the faces of kids alone trying to come to the United States, but it has been a crisis for more than a year and...

LYNN, Mass. -- Lynn is a municipality on the brink. Key department officials say a recent influx of illegal immigrant children and families in the city is stressing almost every service from trash collection to healthcare. "We have been aware of the unaccompanied children issue for quite a while, and we were able to absorb a lot of these children early on," said Lynn Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy. "But now it's gotten to the point where the school system is overwhelmed, our health department is overwhelmed, the city's budget is being sustainably altered in order of accommodate all of these...

BRISTOW, Va. - Some of the thousands of children who have crossed the U.S. border, fleeing violence and extortion in Central America, are now being housed in Prince William County. Federal officials are making arrangements to house the children with private and religious organizations, but they are not saying where. Prince William County officials say they only found out about the children arriving there because the local shelter taking them in volunteered the information. "Health and Human Services did not inform the county. We're somewhat upset about that," said Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart. "I'm concerned...

Click the link for updated list of nation-wide protests for July 18 and 19 against Obama's illegal alien invasion. List is updated daily. Find one near you and be there! Send them back! Secure the borders! Make Them Listen!

Republicans have played defense on immigration for so long that they’ve forgotten how to play offense. The waves of aliens, the dead children washing up on the banks of the Rio Grande, the thousands of free airline tickets for reunions with stateside relatives — all of these things are happening because left-wing control of the levers of power has been met by Republican ineptitude. Shock and outrage at administration policies isn’t enough. The Republicans have provided no effective leadership in stopping the tsunami rolling north from Central America. But Republicans can control the issue, and the nation’s future, if they...

According to AZ Central which can't be posted here per copyright complaint, things are about to get ugly, Murrieta-style, in Arizona. A group of citizens in Oracle is planning to try to block the federal government from delivering 40 or more Central American children to a boy's ranch that houses at-risk kids...

GOOGLE TRANSLATE: Promigrantes organizations in the country indicated that the State lacks sufficient for thousands of children who remain illegally in US preparation. Who would be deported if the warnings have become government officials of that country with respect to accelerate the expulsion are met. Just October last year to last July, more than 13,000 Guatemalan children have been detained by the U.S. Border Patrol. UU. "The state should serve them especially because the parents of these creatures often leave and never return, and children suffer. The State ignores that and does not attempt to benefit them in some social...

Pope Francis says migrants around the world are subjected to “racist and xenophobic attitudes” and he wants the tens of thousands of Central American children crossing the border into the United States to be “welcomed and protected.” ... He said that not only must the children be welcomed but the world must also promote development in their home countries.

From The Interpreter's Live Thread: LB.ua reports that there are eyewitness reports of Russian armoured vehicles heading towards Donetsk. They report seeing two columns of separatist fighters with military vehicles manned by Russians. LB describes reports of 34 tanks, 34 self-propelled guns and 2 BTR armoured personnel carriers. snip It may also be relevant to note that the howitzer carried by the Gvodzika, a D-30, is the same gun that the Russian military claimed to have identified as responsible for shelling on June 22. The last paragraph is a reference to shelling that allegedly occurred in Russia. They accused Ukraine...

Border Patrol agents are dropping off undocumented immigrants at bus stations and now at airports. Some said those who crossed illegally into the U.S are able to purchase plane tickets and board flights without a picture I.D as required for everyone else. National Border Patrol Council said while they are unaware of immigrants boarding planes without identification in the Rio Grande Valley. A union representative out of the Laredo sector told us that it is happening in Laredo and it’s happening quite often. We spoke to National Border Patrol Council #2455 in Laredo, and what they told us was shocking....

Last week, the Hillsboro Argus followed two new migrant recruiters as they signed up students for summer school who live at farm worker camps. Those that qualify for federal migrant education services receive help during the school year, after-school tutoring, preschool and summer school. Q. How does the migrant recruiting process work? A. We work on the same 10-month contract as teachers. Afterward, there is a separate summer school program. Q. What changes have you noticed throughout the years? A. Ninety-nine percent of the kids in the program are Hispanic, mostly from Mexico. Many of them don't have papers; many...

An Oklahoma state lawmaker called on Monday for the quarantine of unaccompanied immigrant children housed at an Oklahoma military base, but U.S. health officials said such a move was unnecessary. Republican State Representative Mike Ritze sent letters to Governor Mary Fallin and other officials asking them to take steps to "ensure the protection of Oklahoma citizens from contagious diseases following the federal government's decision to house illegal immigrant children at Ft. Sill." "As a physician ... I am concerned about the possibility of communicable diseases being carried by a population that does not have the same vaccination requirements as in...

China Grove, North Carolina school buses take illegals to shop at Walmart using EBT cards

NEW BEDFORD – Adolfo De La Cruz' path to New Bedford was 110 days long. But if everything goes his way, it could be a year or two to go from “unaccompanied alien child” to U.S. visa holder. The handful of immigration attorneys in New Bedford are up to their noses in cases of unaccompanied minors who came to the city from Central America and were released to guardians in New Bedford, according to local immigrant advocates. Local immigration attorney Frederick Watt is hiring a full-time, Spanish-speaking interpreter. He estimated that he's come across 100 unaccompanied minor cases in his...

KYIV, July 14 /Ukrinform/. Russia is preparing to bring its special forces from Rostov region on July 15 in Ukraine to help terrorists who suffer significant losses, coordinator of the Information Resistance Group Dmytro Tymchuk wrote on his Facebook page on Monday. "Special force units are coming to Rostov region. This is reconnaissance and sabotage groups of staff brigades of the Russian GRU special forces. According to our data, the commanders of these units have been told that they will be brought into the territory of Ukraine on July 15, that is tomorrow," he said.

GOOGLE TRANSLATE: The collapse of the U.S. immigration system will allow, in fact, to many of the Central American children who are entering the United States illegally staying in the country for the duration of the long bureaucratic process that may or may not end in deportation. Although authorities say again and again that "most" of undocumented immigrants that are coming will be returned to their countries of origin, the fact is that neither the law nor the resources capable of meeting the threat in the short term. The arrival on the southeastern border of more than 57,000 children without...

LOWELL -- Marisa DeFranco, a Democratic immigration lawyer running against incumbent U.S. Rep. John Tierney for the 6th Middlesex District seat, demands to know more about undocumented immigrant detainees coming into the state. DeFranco said news of reportedly seven federal planeloads of illegal immigrants coming to Massachusetts raises alarm bells for her. She said it looks like a sign of what's to come. "I'm very troubled that we had these transfers happening and no knew about it," she said. "I'd like to know if this will change, and for (state corrections facilities), what are they going to do? Will they...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad said Monday that he does not want Iowa to host any of the thousands of children from Central America who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone. During a news conference, Branstad said he was not aware of any of the children currently living in Iowa and that state has not been contacted by the federal government about housing any immigrant children. He said the government's focus should be on securing the borders.