Posted on 06/06/2014 10:45:55 AM PDT by Rusty0604
...the White House is dealing with what it calls an “urgent humanitarian situation” — tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma voiced his opposition to the practice of housing these children at Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla.
In a statement, he writes:
Fort Sill Military Base in Lawton is expected to begin housing at least 600 unaccompanied minors who illegally immigrated to the United States. Since fiscal year 2011, the number of these individuals, usually from Central America, has grown from 6,000 to 66,000 last year. By next year, this number is expected to climb even higher to 127,000.
Using Fort Sill and other military bases to house illegal immigrants is simply an inappropriate use of military facilities. Moreover, I am concerned that what begins as an emergency measure could, over time, evolve into a permanent juvenile detention center for those who have entered the country illegally. This could result in a confusion of missions at what is the one of America’s premier military installations.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
It’s so bad here in TX they are shipping them over to Phoenix. A base in San Antonio is already filled to the brim.
Sorry to see you still beating the drum on Perry, Norm. The Texas-Mexico border makes up 1,254 miles of the 1,900-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border. It was told a thousand times how expensive it would be to build such a fence and how Obama refused all of Perry's calls for help.
And this disproves your quote above;
But - it was nice to be remembered, lol, and if Rick Perry was now the President we would still be in AMERICA.
Rusty, if you haven’t seen Breitbart’s pictures of the ones in Texas, you need to check it out. It’s unreal...
Perry’s lack of willingness to stand behind the fence construction most assuredly helped encourage more illegals to stop by for tea and benefits. Because there was nothing to stop them, Thanks in part, to Rick’s help.
He is on record as being against physical fencing. Texas is a major entry point for illegals.
All the excuses people can come up with do not change these facts. If you are proud to be remembered as someone that supported the guy, that speaks for itself.
Did you notice that the fence didn’t stop them?
Yes, I’m a proud Texan.
Don’t know where you are from, but didn’t hear you ranting about Obama’s ‘non-help’.
Yes, I saw those pictures. I agree it’s unreal. Thanks, Obama!
This is insane! So are the parents sending their children here? Who is paying to send children here? Who is allowing them into the country? Criminal parents. Criminals in the White House. Evil. Evil. Evil.
Thank you Rusty, glad you saw them. The girls and little kids are bad enough, but I really worry what all those teen aged boys will bring upon us!
A lot of the kids are coming from Central America, and I’m afraid ms-13 and other gangs already here will welcome the teenage boys into la familia.
Send them to Gitmo———great weather.
.
Me too. I’m in South Central Texas and the drug gangs are taking over small towns farther south and moving northwards.
Years ago the MS-13 gangs said they would slaughter us all...
I wasn’t aware the fence was actually built. Not the unguarded cow fence that’s there, the real one that was proposed.
It’s easy to blame Obama and the liberals. And they deserve blame. you know who else deserves blame? Republicans who are supposed to stop them from wrecking the country. That’s why we elect them isn’t it?
I expect liberals to try destroying the constitution. It’s a given that they work tirelessly. I want people who will stop them, not help them and give them what they want.
I’d like that. Wouldn’t you? Then don’t support people who give them what they want, then run to the nearest microphone crying the blues that big bad Barry don’t play fair.
I don’t know how much wall/fence has been put up but much of it is in segments. The ranchers and landowners fight against it as much as others fight for it. It divides off much of their property for roads and their livestock can’t get to the river water.
Perry said he wanted more border guards and drones and you know that Obama has put many restrictions on the border Patrol and ICE. I believe Homeland Security changed many rules.
By the way Norm, I wasn’t ‘crying’ about anything, I get tired of one issue rants against a man who runs a state that is larger than many countries, and runs it well. Those, who want perfection, will never get it.
Why worry about walls when we let them come in by the busload?
Yes, it’s obvious that big restrictions have been put on the border guards. It makes no sense - other than that Obama ‘wants’ it. Future voters...
How about the issue where he tried forcing Guardasil over parental objections? Or the issue where he tried to crony in a superhighway fro Drug Central Mexico?
I’m not a one issue guy. There are PLENTY of issues with Perry that place him closer to his former party than to Conservatism.
If you like your governor, good. But he, like my governor in AZ, sucks for the country overall.
Demoralizing institutions and foundations while the feckless GOP sits back and mumbles to itself
The border is a river.
You want to fence it off and cede it to Mexico?
The river drives the agriculture of the entire border region.
By all means secure the border but "rah rah fence!" is far too simplistic a solution.
Over the years, any number of freepers have thought up a variety of ways to deal with the river and access to it. If we can figure it out, I am quite certain that actual engineers can do the job. They figured out how to get to the moon, they figured out how to dam the Colorado (on which I live) and this corner of AZ is a maze of irrigation waterways.
We can do it if we want to do it. I don’t care how many thousand miles it is. I don’t care about terrain. We build interstates THROUGH mountains of solid rock. We run physical cable across oceans. We steer drills thousands of feet underground. We can figure this out in short order and make it happen.
All true.
But still.. a simple fence isn’t workable.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.