Posted on 05/29/2014 3:56:59 PM PDT by kristinn
The Department of Homeland Security dropped off some 140 immigrants — mostly women and children — at the Tucson Greyhound station this weekend, leaving them to find their own way to their destination cities across the country to report to immigration offices there.
While such releases are not new, the number left here at the same time has put a strain on local border advocates and has customs and bus line officials working on a plan to accommodate the unexpected influx of travelers.
ICE in Arizona is processing 400 people, mostly families coming from Central America and Mexico who were apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley and flown here over the weekend, officials said.
To meet the demand coming from Texas, the Border Patrol is turning to all available resources at its disposal, said Daniel Tirado, Border Patrol spokesman for the Rio Grande Valley sector.
In the first six months of the fiscal year, the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents detained more people than Tucson did all of last year with an average of more than 600 apprehensions a day.
About 70 percent of 140,000 people detained are from countries other than Mexico, mostly Central America. In comparison, Tucson sector Border Patrol agents have detained about 61,000 border crossers during the same period, with 18 percent coming from a place other than Mexico.
Border Patrol agents in less busy sectors are processing people by taking their biographical information and completing a file online.
Also, about 100 agents from other sectors, including Arizona, have been sent to Texas to help.
And they are flying apprehended immigrants to other sectors where they can be processed. The first flight was to El Paso on May 7. Four days later, the second one arrived in Tucson and the third landed here last week,...
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Flooding the borders in anticipation of amnesty.
If they were crowding the station in Phoenix, a simple call to Sheriff Joe could remedy that.
Devaluing our citizenship is but one part of Obama’s fundamental transformation scheme. And our population is letting it happen while watching Oprah and playing Angry Birds.
Chain migration, anchor babies, amnesty, and not enforcing e-Verify is killing our culture.
They are breaking the law and are getting better treatment than our veterans.
If these illegals need medical care they would probably neglect veterans and let them die so they can spend money serving these people.
We killed our own culture off long before the aliens did. When we kicked God out of society and replaced Him with porn, booze, drugs, wealth envy, violent tv, abortion, welfare, and a host of other disturbing trends it was pretty much over.
Obama is a symptom not the cause, or even a cause of our demise.
When will the low-information people wake up? We are witnessing America be destroyed by our own elected reps. God bless America.
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