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U.S. Prepares to House Up to 20,000 Migrants on Military Bases
NY Times ^ | June 22, 2018 | Michael D. Shear, Helene Cooper and Katie Benner

Posted on 06/22/2018 5:22:45 PM PDT by Innovative

The United States is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four American military bases, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as federal officials struggled to carry out President Trump’s order to keep immigrant families together after they are apprehended at the border.

The 20,000 beds at bases in Texas and Arkansas would house “unaccompanied alien children,” said a Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. Michael Andrews, although other federal agencies provided conflicting explanations about how the shelters would be used and who would be housed there. There were reports of widespread confusion on the border.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; migrants; militarybases; trumpdod
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It might be a learning opportunity to have student dorms in our liberal universities become “sanctuary” domiciles for illegal border crossing families. And let these “undocumented” immigrants live with the students (many members of their large families per room). The student families and faculty should bear all the expenses involved in this experiment. These student liberals and their professors would likely be delighted to have them aboard.


21 posted on 06/22/2018 6:08:42 PM PDT by taxpayerfatigue (Taxpayer Fatigue)
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To: Innovative

House them on trains and buses headed back to Mexico.


22 posted on 06/22/2018 6:20:11 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: taxpayerfatigue

That is a great idea: “Sponsor a Family” program.

As the saying goes “put your money where your mouth is.”


23 posted on 06/22/2018 6:21:01 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Syncro

That works for me. Of course that’s not the policy they have chosen to adopt. There should be no ability to show up at the border and demand asylum.

You should have to go to an embassy or a consulate.

Showing up at the border should get you a swift kick on the butt as you are sent packing back into the country you’re trying to enter from.

We are being jobbed!


24 posted on 06/22/2018 6:32:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

That works for me.

When I made that comment, I’m simply addressing how our people have chosen to interpret the laws on the books now.

I doubt any laws sanctioned what is happening. I may be wrong on that. Sure doesn’t make sense.


25 posted on 06/22/2018 6:34:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Lurker

As long as it complies with the law.


26 posted on 06/22/2018 6:34:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: technically right

If our laws state they can apply at the border and get a hearing, then our agents have to comply.

I honestly don’t know what the exact wording is covering this. I don’t have to agree with it, even if it does justify how these cases are being handled.

We are being gamed.


27 posted on 06/22/2018 6:35:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: DoughtyOne

“As long as it complies with the law.”

Which we get to make.

L


28 posted on 06/22/2018 6:37:02 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Innovative
They need to very conspicuously and without comment, set up a mobile crematorium nearby.

That'd scare the crap out of 'em.

29 posted on 06/22/2018 6:39:45 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Lurker

Sure, but then we know who is writing them too.

We have big enough loop-holes placed in our laws so that a Mac Truck could drive through.


30 posted on 06/22/2018 6:40:35 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Paladin2

The foreign aide we send to these countries should be halted


31 posted on 06/22/2018 6:50:45 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Innovative

House ‘em in the FEMA camps and transport them in ‘black helicopters’. Freak out the lefties and give them heart attacks.


32 posted on 06/22/2018 7:17:16 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Innovative

When pResident Carter took in all the, ‘Boat People’ from Cuba (criminals and mental patients!) some of them ended up in little old Fort McCoy, in the north woods of Wisconsin.

I, personally, laid a lot of concertina wire around the barracks where they would be held.

A few weeks after they arrived, a civilian co-worker was stabbed to death, in front of her young daughter, by one of those savages.

So, Sure! Let them all in! *SPIT*


33 posted on 06/22/2018 7:25:16 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Innovative
We don't have Migrants in the US!

They are either Illegal or Legal Immigrants!

34 posted on 06/22/2018 7:33:19 PM PDT by TRY ONE (I never got the memo changing the name of Global Warming to Klimate Change)
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To: Windflier

“House them on trains and buses headed back to Mexico.”

You absolutely have the right answer.

They don’t need to separate the adults from the children, just send them all back. And build the wall ASAP.


35 posted on 06/22/2018 7:38:23 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

Too bad our homeless and homeless veterans can’t get three meals a day, medical and dental attention, a safe, cool place to sleep and some counseling. I guess I’m a dreamer.


36 posted on 06/23/2018 1:04:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Too bad our homeless and homeless veterans can’t get three meals a day, medical and dental attention, a safe, cool place to sleep and some counseling. I guess I’m a dreamer.

Illegal trespassers come first.

37 posted on 06/23/2018 1:09:47 AM PDT by timestax
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To: TRY ONE

They are border jumpers. Not any kind of “immigrants”.


38 posted on 06/23/2018 3:54:59 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: Innovative

This is beyond stupid. Give the children back to their parents and deport them. What’s so hard about that?


39 posted on 06/23/2018 3:56:51 AM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: bgill

Those numbers are proof that the Azteks are overwhelming our system and it is time to put the military on the border and turn them all back. No more screwing around with letting them get court hearings. Just give them an ICE officer, who will declare them guilty, before throwing them out.


40 posted on 06/23/2018 4:44:36 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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