Posted on 03/09/2019 8:03:43 AM PST by Rusty0604
HHS will reallocate millions of dollars from some of its health programs to increase shelter capacity for the "overwhelming number" of migrant children, Secretary Alex Azar told Congressional appropriators in letters this week.
Children who cross the border without parents or family are often referred to HHS for shelter, food and other services until sponsors are found in the U.S. But HHS's shelters are nearly full, and the agency needs to take funds from other programs to pay for more space, Azar said.
That includes up to $286 million from health programs that fund Head Start, Alzheimer's care and cancer prevention. Most of the money will come from the Administration for Children and Families, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health.
Up to $99 million from within the Office of Refugee Resettlement will also be reprogrammed, Azar said.
But Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee's health panel, accused HHS of "robbing vital health and human services initiatives in order to pay for their failed policies."
"We cannot continue to spend taxpayer dollars on the President’s manufactured crisis at the border, which is government-sanctioned child abuse," DeLauro said in a statement.
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INSANITY!
America, the World’s Emergency Room, Housing Authority, Grocery Store and Babysitter.
This is exactly what motivates people to come here illegally. We need to make illegal immigration less attractive and stop creating inducements for them to come here.
So this is what a non-emergency looks like.
We can only ship the Mexican and Canadian kids back. The laws do not allow us to send other countries kids back. This is the Gordian knot immigration policies our progressive “betters” have designed to take us down.
There needs to be a law that ANYONE who enters the US illegally, even if brought in by someone else, can NEVER hold regular citizenship in the US, and will NEVER be legally allowed to vote in any US elections. Being caught voting in a US election will result in immediate deportation.
The House democrats just voted against such a law yesterday.
In the meantime there is typhus on the streets in LA because the homeless have no place to go.
Throw them out now. Who cares how old they are?
That might work but I’m very doubtful of it for reasons you may figure out for yourself.
Will this crap ever stop? What is it going to take? The idiot republicans are in bed with chamber of commerce I guess and the rats are building an unbeatable base. Neither give a damn about the rest of us.
It is a gift. My wife has it too.
......”for the “overwhelming number” of migrant children”...
Send the kids back to their country and let them sort it out. I’m over listening to the drum beat “for the children”...and “that’s not who we are” politically regurgitated as if they give a hoot about children while they support murdering ours in and out of the womb.
No sale....send them back and drop them off and lets see if their own people give a hoot about their kids.
Yeah, right. Get that one by congress. Especially now. It was no better though when the republicant’s were in charge.
Victor Davis Hansen has said it. Thomas Sowell has said it. I’ve been saying it for more than a few years now. The U.S. as we have known it is through. WE are on death watch now. MAGA can’t fix it without just taking over and breaking laws.
“The House democrats just voted against such a law yesterday.”
Didn’t know. They don’t care about America, and many of them actually hate many Americans. They want power, control, and a total remaking of what we call America.
So, once again, our citizens have to pay and lose benefits because of illegals.
DemonRats hate our citizens.
House votes in favor of illegal immigrant voting
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/8/house-votes-favor-illegal-immigrant-voting/
I know they’re children, but they are illegals, nonetheless. They should not benefit from denying funds to Americans that have already been allocated.
They should be turned over to consular officials from their country of origin. That is all. Adios.
Then citizenship means nothing.
What happened to keeping everyone in Mexico until processed?
What happened to the troops on the border?
What happened to the costantina wire?
The logic is that many of the Americans getting that health care spending don’t vote Democrat anyway, but more of the illegals do.
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