Posted on 07/07/2014 9:10:37 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
San Diego — President Obama will visit Texas this week for three political fundraisers. One place he will not visit while in Texas: the Mexican border. A border visit is apparently not necessary, in Obama’s view, to monitor the crisis that has seen thousands of migrants — including unaccompanied children — flood into the United States.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest bizarrely says that people criticizing Obama’s failure to visit the border would “rather play politics than actually try to address some of these challenges.” The president, it seems, will “lead from behind” once again. All this has been too much for Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat who represents the border city of Laredo. “They should have seen this coming a long time ago . . . because we saw those numbers increasing,” he said today on CNN’s State of the Union. Cuellar admitted that our current system creates perverse incentives. “There is an incentive that if you bring your child over here, or you’re a child by yourself, you’re going to be let go. And that’s exactly what’s happening,” he said. “Our immigration courts are so backlogged. There’s not enough detention spaces. . . . This is the incentive we have to take away.” As for Obama’s pledge to send more personnel to the border, Cuellar didn’t sound confident: “I think he’s still one step behind. They knew this was happening a year ago. . . . and they are not reacting fast enough at this time.”
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Let him seek permission and let Obama’s decision be public.
he had the authority to call out the Texas Rangers, DPS, and Texas Militia to defend the border
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Takes money...lots of money...
He mentioned again the other day that he already asked Obama back in 2010..
Obama has never given an answer..
The names of the fundraiser attendees should be published and shouted to the treetops.
I think the people on the border have enough to deal with, without the added headache of one more undocumented immigrant stopping by to make things worse.
He should be shouting this to all the media.
He did yesterday and last week...
I’m not defending Perry..
I’m just saying what he has done to tell Obama theres a problem..
If Obama has been planning this illegal alien coup d’état since 2010 then he would have ignored any pleas to close the border...
He didn’t just “not close the border” he opened it wider.
Freepgards!
Anyone FReeping Obama in Dallas?
Something is up. He’s been to Texas far too many times recently. Something is definitely up.
What border ???
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