Posted on 07/01/2018 8:08:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trumps Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to house and detain up to 12,000 illegal aliens in Department of Defense facilities. In a letter to the Defense Department, DHS officials have asked that enough detention space be made available for the agency to detain up to 12,000 illegal aliens, specifically border crossing family units.
DHS officials say that if the Defense Department does not have the facilities to house that number, DHS is requesting that the agency identify land space to build semi-separate, soft-sided camp facilities capable of sheltering up to 4,000 people, at three separate locations, the letter states.
Preferably, DHS officials say they want these tent cities built in regions closest to the U.S.-Mexico border, in either Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, or California.
At the least, DHS officials are requiring that facilities be found and converted or tent cities be built in the next 45 days to accommodate 2,000 illegal aliens.
For weeks, the Trump administration has worked closely with the Pentagon to find more detention space for border crossers in order to at least temporarily end the process known as Catch and Release, where illegal aliens are released into the U.S. while they await their immigration hearings.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“US plans migrant tent camps amid crackdown (Cost $233 million every six months)”
YGTBSM - AGAIN, but US ignore the obvious! Somewhere on the bottom line, amid the fine print, is the undeniable fact that illegals are Mexico’s problem, not the United States. Yet the US solution to illegal immigration is akin to an individual assuming the debt of a spendthrift, irresponsible stranger. A stranger who could give a f**t in a whirlwind as their unabated debt continues to accrue.
...makes a feller mad enough to spit!
(Oh who am I kidding?)
GITMO! US territory. No fences necessary Im sure Raul will take them if they leave.
Get Sheriff Joe to build the tent city.
Wow! Mecca like the old days in tents with AC units. Just WOW
Yeah! What's the delay??? Trump can do whatever he wants! He doesn't have to obey the laws on the books!
No need to wait for Congress to change the laws! He's a dictator, right?
Oh, wait...
Nothing has changed. People in Baldwin County, Alabama are fighting having several thousand of them placed at an abandoned Naval base virtually in their back yards. They fought and won the same battle under Obama. Im a Trump supporter but this is ridiculous. Leave them on the border.
it’s heartwarming to see black and whites kids playing in harmony.
Even if they’re doing incredibly idiotic things :)
Wonder if the kid was ok. Hit face dead on.
>>This cant be coming from Trump.
It is coming from some laws and a lot of court decisions. This ends catch and release and thats why the Progs have their panties all twisted up. They cant say that they want C&R so they latched on to the families thing. Now Trump will put the families together in a victory for the Progs while still ending C&R.
Total winning.
Many court rulings over many years, along with lefty lawyers coaching illegals how to game our system. The result of all of that is few illegals can simply be deported immediately. They all request immigration hearings, knowing they will lose. They all claim asylum, knowing only a handful qualify. This has all been put in place by the left to gum up the works, make it nearly impossible to enforce our immigration laws and force us to have open borders.
President Trump is trying his best to keep illegals detained and not simply release them know they won’t show up for a hearing. Under our present system it is very hard to keep illegals detained. There was a court ruling that they can be detained but many other rulings over the years say this one and that one must be released after XXX days...
I am sure President Trump is doing his best to figure out legal ways to simply deport illegals. It will be a legal mine field no matter what he does. The left has had many years to make sure of that.
This is not on President Trump, this is on the left that has many court rulings over many years and lefty lawyers coaching illegals to say the right words to game our system.
President Trump is doing his best to follow the law, and enforce immigration laws. The left has put up roadblocks over the years to force release of illegals into our country for a legal process; force this country to have open borders.
This is on the left, and on us for ignoring and allowing all their shenanigans all these years that have led us to this.
President Trump is wading in legal quicksand to try to enforce our laws and he needs our support. It is the least we can do since we did nothing to keep the left from doing all of this.
Yes, we need to get on the backs of our Congress critters to make some changes in this mess- that is one thing that needs to happen for sure.
We also need to stop processing asylum cases anywhere except at our consulates out of the country. Having mass numbers of people that will not qualify swarm the border for asylum is ridiculous. Illegals being detained here in the U.S. after crossing illegally are also claiming asylum when they are caught. That is also ridiculous.
Paul Rino’s retiring. Can’t be soon enough.
My thoughts exactly.
Razor wire, tiger pits, punji stakes, trenches, machineguns, landmines, artillery ...
A friggin' WALL ...
Put the tent city on the Canadian border.
Calm down. It’s not nuts. Until the crazy asylum law is changed this is going to be the best solution. IT BEATS CATCH AND RELEASE.
You get it.
I hear ya. Maybe so ... but that is not what Trump is saying. I side with him on this one.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents...
8:02 AM - 24 Jun 2018
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