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Human Tide of Children Sweeps Across U.S. Borders
NBC News ^ | June 11, 2014 | BY MARK POTTER AND KERRY SANDERS

Posted on 06/11/2014 4:48:55 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

So many children are flowing across the Mexican border into Texas without their parents that government facilities are overwhelmed trying to process them all, Jeh Johnson said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Some families have been drawn here by rumors that the U.S. is letting women and children into the country. That's what led Roxanna Lopez, 20, of Guatemala to travel with her son to the border at McAllen, Texas — where even legal immigration often tops 300 people a day.

Lopez told NBC News she paid smugglers everything she had because she'd heard that all women and children were welcome,

U.S. officials say that isn't necessarily true. But their proclamations haven't stopped the surge.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; border; illegalaliens; invasion
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1 posted on 06/11/2014 4:48:55 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ORCHESTRATED by OBAMA....PERIOD.


2 posted on 06/11/2014 4:49:50 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Lopez told NBC News she paid smugglers everything she had because she’d heard that all women and children were welcome,”

And exactly where did she hear this???

Trying to keep up with this administration’s scandals is making my head swim.


3 posted on 06/11/2014 4:50:35 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Those aren’t illegal aliens sneaking into the USA.

Those are just undocumented democrats.


4 posted on 06/11/2014 4:50:42 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama and the democrats don’t care who’s lives this disrupt to help keep them in power.


5 posted on 06/11/2014 4:51:43 PM PDT by tje
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To: ilovesarah2012

It’s all free , it’s only tax payer money , they have TONS


6 posted on 06/11/2014 4:52:06 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They want to turn Texas into a blue state, and this is all part of that.

They want to make it so that they don’t HAVE to really campaign at all.


7 posted on 06/11/2014 4:54:51 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Ann Archy

Democrats bring misery in the world.


8 posted on 06/11/2014 4:56:01 PM PDT by GOPJ (#2 reply spot RESERVED for Tokyo Rose comments: "nothing works - give up - it's all hopeless".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Obama Stash fairytale is now world wide.
9 posted on 06/11/2014 4:56:13 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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HOW in hell did all these central american kids get to the US ?

guaranteed there is NO WAY they marched thru mexico ! the mexicans do not allow border jumpers on their southern border. they shoot em.

is there a huge tunnel under mexico to the US ?


10 posted on 06/11/2014 4:56:57 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow, guess we’ll have to make them and all their family members into Democrat voters, eh?


11 posted on 06/11/2014 4:57:19 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sweep them right back.


12 posted on 06/11/2014 4:59:02 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wish the reporter asked her exactly how much she paid. The shoe shine guys in Tijuana told me recently that the fee paid to smugglers is more than $5,000 and is collected upon arrival at the destination in the USA. I doubt if these Guatemalans could pay $100. I would not be surprised if somebody or some gubmint is providing bus transportation for free.


13 posted on 06/11/2014 5:00:19 PM PDT by forgotten man
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/05/225717.htm

Check the date...


14 posted on 06/11/2014 5:00:56 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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“Lopez told NBC News she paid smugglers everything she had because she’d heard that all women and children were welcome,” And exactly where did she hear this???

Who knows? Heck it could be as simple as some smuggling group advertising (like the "flyers" in "the Grapes of Wrath"). Part of me can't really blame them for trying to get here - heck if I was born in Shitsville, Guatemala...I would want to come to the USA too.

That said...even if there is a simple answer...this is being seen/sold as a crisis.
15 posted on 06/11/2014 5:01:59 PM PDT by DJlaysitup
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To: DJlaysitup

Send em home.


16 posted on 06/11/2014 5:03:00 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

why isn’t this considered human trafficking?


17 posted on 06/11/2014 5:08:28 PM PDT by wtd
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Send em home.

Realistically, that is the only answer. Once they see people returning they will know that the stuff they have "heard" is not true.
18 posted on 06/11/2014 5:09:18 PM PDT by DJlaysitup
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When you say “across” the border, how did THAT happen?


19 posted on 06/11/2014 5:11:01 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

relative of one of the 14 children who crossed near the Rio Grande dam told NBC News his parents paid a smuggler more than $8,000 to keep their child out of the hands of the maras.

You jerk.

It costs that much to come here lawfully, where you have all the legal protections afforded to legal residents and citizens

You chose the back door and that will result in your career being the equivalent of broom pusher.

You cannot integrate into society and become succesful when you are part of the underground economy.

Further, this whispered policy, by this administration, is putting children in very real risk of the elements and humans who would take advantage of them, injuring in whatever sick way they felt like.

Also, children don’t belong in concentration camps.

They belong in families


20 posted on 06/11/2014 5:11:08 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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