Posted on 07/18/2014 5:16:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet with the leaders of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador next week to discuss cooperation on the influx of child migrants from Central America into the United States, senior administration officials said on Friday.
The meeting comes as the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border into the Rio Grande Valley in Texas has begun to drop off, the officials said, seeking a victory in a crisis that has largely consumed the White House and the Obama administration in recent weeks.
In June roughly 2,000 children were crossing the border on a weekly basis, one official told reporters on a conference call. By the second week in July those numbers had dropped below 1,000 and were continuing in that direction, he said.
"We think that this is an important trend," the official said.
The officials tied the drop to a number of factors, including U.S. information campaigns about the dangers of the journey for the children and clear policy statements that coming to the United States would not give the migrants a pathway to citizenship.
The officials said weather-related declines were also a factor. Traditionally fewer border crossings occur in the hotter summer months.
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Not a realistic photo-shop. The head’s too small.
These 2000 are only the ones we catch. Or the lie told to us by the feds. They say 2000 it is probable closer to 20,000.
To pass along more plane tickets and nice hefty checks.
Bingo. The White House has run the numbers and they’ve realized they’re going to need a few hundred thousand more invaders in order to sway the November election their way.
Saw video Thursday with VP of the CBP Union where he said the crossings decline every year during July and August when the temps and humidity along the Rio Grande often exceed 110*. In recent weeks, ranchers have been finding bodies of illegals on their properties; some fairly new and some stripped to the bone by scavengers. Heat + desert + little water = death.
His meeting will likely address the unacceptable falling off and ways to bolster the chain of illegals to get it back ti the 2,000 number.
What exactly is Obama’s definition of “cooperation”?
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