Posted on 07/01/2014 10:39:58 AM PDT by PoloSec
(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that Washington would work with Central American nations to address the root causes of an immigration crisis, but he kept up the Obama administration's tough message that undocumented children would be deported.
"We obviously understand people who want to do better, and who look for a better life," he said at a meeting with leaders from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, the countries from which tens of thousands of children have fled to the United States in recent months.
"But at the same time, there are rules of law, and there is a process and there is false information that is being spread about benefits that might be available to these young people who are looking for that better life," he said.
Kerry was in Panama for the inauguration of the country's new president, Juan Carlos Varela, but he combined the trip with meetings to address a crisis that is straining U.S. resources and roiling partisan tensions in Washington over immigration.
Kerry met with El Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren and Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez did not attend, sending Foreign Minister Mireya Aguero Trejo de Corrales in his place.
President Barack Obama said on Monday he was sending Kerry to Central America to address the problem, in a speech pledging to act on his own to revamp the U.S. immigration system and protect the border after hopes of convincing congressional Republicans to pass broad reform legislation officially died. [L2N0PB1MU]
Kerry's visit to the region followed one by Vice President Joe Biden less than two weeks ago as Washington grapples with an issue that is straining its resources and complicating its relationship with Mexico and Central American allies.
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When will the EXEMPT give up
their homes to these “children”?
When?
Should’ve said that up front instead of inviting them here with dreams of amnesty. Their dreams are now nightmares.
You really think Obama will send them back? Baloney. He’s got that pen. They’re already looking at homes for them here in Upstate NY.
well if kerry sez the kids are gonna get deported, you can bet the farm that they’re here to stay.
BS. We’re never going to send them home.
Anyone believing this needs to see a shrink.
uh-huh.
So the Regime is now deciding which illegals are illegal, which illegals are sort of legal and which illegals are legal.
They only wanted mexicans.
If Obama & Kerry were serious they would have sent out Susan Rice to make the announcement!
The message is evolving.
ROFLMTO...do you think those kids will find it a joy in Upstate NY at -50 below? Talk about nightmare? LOL...I left after one winter up there to come back south just to thaw out.
Key Word: Central American.
Mexico is part of North America...................
Even the Mexican Immigration organizations are being very silent on this.
Now it all makes sense. That’s what they needed all those size 5X and 6X tidy whities for. To sling shot the “unaccompanied minors” back across the border.
I’m betting that 95% are Mexicans and that Pablo texted Hernando “Get the kids on the road. I’ll watch for them at the border and let you know where they are”.
If Kerry says it, that means it won’t happen.
What WILL happen is that once the kids are here, it will be the “right thing to do” to bring their entire families here.
Multiply the number of kids by at least 10.
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