Posted on 06/06/2014 3:06:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Over the past month, a flood of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) has overwhelmed US Border Patrol personnel and facilities, particularly in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Most come from Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala.
In the United States, Thad Bingel, an expert in border management with the Command Consulting Group in Washington, DC and former chief of staff at CBP, speculated that a perception has taken hold that a combination of a change in US policy and leniency toward UACs and the inability of US authorities to deport other than Mexican migrants has led to a rush to the US border.
“The word gets out that ‘my younger cousin got through’ and it spreads that the US is not detaining minors and so it takes on a sense of urgency because the capability and capacity of the US to hold people is low,” Bingel told BNN. “We’ve seen this in Texas, and not just Central Americans but Caribbeans and South Asians. All kinds of immigrants were coming through there.”
Apparently, Central Americans “know that we treat minors differently than if they were with an adult and that means that they have a better chance of staying in the United States. They decide that the best thing they can do is send the children through with all the dangers of that trip because that is still better than the conditions in Honduras or Guatemala. They have a better chance doing that than staying and getting into a gang.”
Those perceptions, combined with the growing season when there are agricultural jobs in the United States and a perceived weakness in US immigration policy and enforcement, is providing an overwhelming attraction, he said.
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Then Mexico is offering to pay for this?
The purpose of the federal government is to protect the states. Place the military on the border. At the very least border states should call forth the state militia and place them on the border.
They imprison one U.S. Marine for making a wrong turn and then they attack us on our treatment of illegal aliens?
el pingo.
Put them all on buses and drop them off in Mexico City.
Let,s fix Mexico so that everyone wants to go there. I,m sure that the ,Rats can create a utopia in a few years.
It takes a planet.
They also can't decide whether the adult illegal aliens are "otherwise law-abiding" or if we need to give them all drivers licenses because they're "driving to work without insurance".
Seriously, make up your minds, libs!
The Democrats and Obama are criminals for manufacturing this humanitarian crisis. There is not a hint of compassion in what they have done. They put the lives of children at risk so they can consolidate political power. Our jails are full of people who have done far less than Obama and the Democrats. I am not a hater, but it is not hard to hate people capable of such evil.
“Mexico: Influx of Unaccompanied Children is Everyone’s Responsibility”
“We all have AIDs”?
Nonsense.
Bus them to the border and walk them single-file back to Mexico. If Mexico find we’re returning them they will stop them at their border.
But with the Marxist Boy King, don’t expect any positive leadership on this problem.
child abandonment is a crime, right?
Make it known that charges will be filed against all of their parents.
How do we know that Boner, Cantor, and Mitch are not behind this too?
Start putting out pamphlets in Spanish announcing that these abandoned children will be adopted by homosexual couples.
There HAS to be collusion, and a conspiracy among third world govts to organize this massive invasion of our country.
This is part of the armed insurgency-—calculated to weaken US ntl security-—so that the advancing forces (and those already here) can complete the takeover conniving third world govt have planned.
‘They imprison one U.S. Marine for making a wrong turn and then they attack us on our treatment of illegal aliens?’
Well of course they do. Do as I say don’t do as I do is the motto of the current Mexican state. I have heard that on their southern border they shoot first and ask questions later.
Probably not a bad policy, maybe we should try it. Bet you the illegals would slow to a trickle.
Never happen as long as the lefties and big business are in control.
Never change till the kids of the lefties are making 2 bucks an hour with their liberal arts degrees. Then listen to the howling.
And send Mexico give had bill. Gratuity included.
It Takes a Village.
‘Let,s fix Mexico so that everyone wants to go there. I,m sure that the ,Rats can create a utopia in a few years.’
Since they all appear to be coming here, I am thinking about moving there. Should be some great deals on land currently.
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