Posted on 06/19/2014 1:26:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
“A seemingly endless surge of immigrants.” That is how the L.A. Times recently described the situation in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, described by one local government official as “the hottest spot in the nation” for border crossings. The surge of illegal immigrants at the border, largely composed of “unaccompanied alien children” (UACs) from Central America, is creating chaos at the border and turning processing stations and military bases into veritable refugee camps as border officials struggle to handle the surge. And, with the number of UACs expected to climb to more than 90,000 by then end of September, U.S. authorities are quickly losing ground.
However, this chaos at the border is just the beginning of the disastrous consequences stemming from Obama’s whimsical immigration “policies;” a mixture of ignoring current immigration laws, manufacturing new policies based on his “Executive authority,” and blaming Republicans for creating gridlock in Congress forcing him into taking these actions (or lack thereof). And, given that this Administration has yet to approach the negotiating table in good faith with real solutions, it is addressing the crisis in an equally haphazard way, endangering America’s national and economic security in the process.
Were Obama a competent leader, surrounded by competent subordinates, some immediate actions might have included taking all illegals currently in U.S. custody at the border, and shipping them back to Mexico, the country from whose territory they crossed into the United States. Such swift action would have sent an immediate message to others thinking about coming into the U.S. illegally that our borders are, in fact, not open to lawbreakers. Instead, our Homeland Security and Heath and Human Services folks are responding with a “public relations campaign” to tell folks in Mexico it is dangerous to trek through the desert, as if those illegally immigrating were doing so because they did not understand the risks already.
Regrettably, the Administration appears to be following its standard protocol for crisis management: ducking responsibility and blaming the resulting mess on external factors beyond its control; in this case, violence and worsening conditions in Central American countries. Of course, we know not to take this Administration at its word, especially when its public image is at stake in yet another Executive failure. The true catalyst for this surge in illegal immigration stems not from external factors, but is a direct result of the President creating a patchwork immigration enforcement system that has done nothing if not encourage individuals from Mexico and Central America to “come on in.”
For example, frequent grandstanding by Obama and his allies in the Congress about the need to welcome the children of illegal immigrants (“DREAM kids,” in the current liberal jargon) has – not surprisingly – become a clarion call to those south of our border simply to take us up on our offer, and flood our border with UACs. To make matters worse, the Administration has ordered border officials to shelter and process all these illegals, including child members of violent gangs, not because the law dictates they do so, but because Obama has decided this will be a part of America’s immigration policy.
Obama officials like Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson claim the Homeland Security Act of 2002 requires them to act in the “best interest” of the child, which “very often means reuniting that child with the parent in the United States.” However, the law clearly states that the “interests” -- it makes no mention of “best” interests – are only be “considered” in deciding how to care for the children while in U.S. custody. Furthermore, the law defines UACs as those children with “no parent or legal guardian in the United States,” making Johnson’s excuses for the Administration even more absurd.
The Keystone Cop mentality driving Obama’s bush league immigration policies is a well-established hallmark of those who head the many federal agencies under Obama’s control. A less-established characteristic is why, in the face of such obvious dangers to America’s national and economic security, this Administration continues to push such patently ineffectual policies. Is it incompetence, pure and simple, or some crudely disguised liberal master plan to let illegals flood into our homeland, then quickly grant them amnesty in time for the 2016 election? Is it a ploy to create a “crisis” in order to force the Congress to pass his coveted “comprehensive immigration reform” legislation? The latter scenario very well might appeal to a number of Democrats in Congress who face brutal election prospects resulting from the many blunders by a President whose party label they share.
Regardless of the motivations or ultimate agenda behind the failure of protecting our borders, Republicans must act swiftly before our already strained border resources – and those in communities and military installations across the country having to cope with the child immigrants being shipped into their care as a result of Obama’s edicts -- collapse under a new rising tide of illegal immigrants.
Hey, it wasn’t his fault and he’s only learning about it on TV now.
All by design, Comrade. All. By. Design.
Obama has proven that there will never be any more Federal Amnesty Laws passed because of his flooding the US Border with “the children” due to Obama’s illegal Executive “Dreamer” Order.
Why hasn’t the watchdog press interviewed these children to determine why they have come here and how they were treated during the trip?
Blaming “fiddling” rests on the presumption that 0bama didn’t intentionally create this situation. I reject that premise.
Poor Asian refugees don’t try to cross China’s border, do they?
This is going to hurt democrats more in the midterms than it will help them. Most Americans are disgusted with what is going on at the border. If we suffer another terrorist attack because of this mess, Obama and company should be put before a firing squad.
You can say that again! Welcome to even more violent riots in LA and elsewhere.
Both groups...the DC crowd and the Chamber of Commerce cheerleaders are totally removed from the situation.
Cities already have a delicate balance. The hispanics are not one group. In many inner cities the police are able to keep things somewhat in control because they know who the bad actors are and where conflicts can occur.
Add a few hundred Central Americans "children" to the mix and it could get weird. I suspect established law-abiding hispanics, blacks and whites stuck in the cities understand what the ramifications could be if this new hispanic population upsets the existing mix.
In January, the government advertised for people to escort unaccompanied children traveling across the border. Our tax dollars at work...and it proves this invasion was planned by the Obama administration to blackmail Republicans into voting for amnesty.
Wait until a tsunami of adults are in behind a leading wave of waifs...
Bookmark.
Whimsical?
Bob Barr, the author, is clueless.
Obama’s policies are carefully planned and deliberate.
80% of these kids will vote for the Democrat Party when they turn 18.
“..invasion was planned by the Obama administration to blackmail Republicans into voting for amnesty.”
Exactly!!
Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Ventura County Naval Base in southern California and Fort Sill Army Base in Oklahoma were the first to be burdened w/ this diseased horde.
DO THIS NOW--contact US Sen James M. Inhofe
Ranking member of the Armed Services Committee
EMAIL PAGE http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/contact
Washington, DC Office:
205 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-3603
Main: (202) 224-4721
Fax: (202) 228-0380
Office Locations--- Tulsa, OK: 1924 S. Utica Avenue Suite 530 Tulsa, OK 74104-6511 Main: (918) 748-5111 Fax: (918) 748-5119; Oklahoma City, OK: 1900 NW Expressway St Suite 1210 Oklahoma City, OK 73118 Main: (405) 608-4381 Fax: (405) 608-4120; McAlester, OK: 215 E Choctaw Ave Suite 106 McAlester, OK 74501 Main: (918) 426-0933 Fax: (918) 426-0935; Enid, OK: 302 N Independence Suite 104 Enid, OK 73701 Main: (580) 234-5105 Fax: (580) 234-5094
MESSAGE TO SEN INHOFE---Sen Inhofe should notify Army officials that these are minor children......Child Protective Services should detain them under laws covering “suspected runaways”.
Sen Inhofe, the US military, and the state, should officially contact the governments involved specifying that they are required to seek out the parents of these Mexican, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemalan children so that they can be returned to them via their respective juvenile justice systems.
Sen Inhofe might emphasize that the countries involved might not want to be party to child abandonement, as the world looks on.
By US law, these separated children are legally chattels of their parents; the state cannot release minors until there are responsible adults to care for them.
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MEMO TO SEN INHOFE: If necessary , Sen Inhofe should expose the corruption in American CPS agencies. One news report that interviewed ex-Child Protective Service agents, exposed that the entire CPS..... aided and abetted by the Virginia legal system...... is designed to separate mothers from their children.
The price is right.
(a) For every child taken from the parents, the Federal government pays CPS approximately $5,000 dollars. (b) If the child is a minority, more money is paid. (c) And if the child has a disability, the feds payout even more in taxpayer’s money to separate children from parents.”
SOURCE http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/06/05/virginia-moms-have-lost-their-constitutional-rights/
NOTE: The reporter who exposed this corruption kept getting death threats directed at him AND his family for covering this story.
Better clean house first, buddy.
5/28/13----Former Guatemala Prez used US banks to launder millions (swindler was elected to "redistribute" the nation's wealth)
An ex-president of Guatemala faced charges in NY that he used US banks to launder millions looted from his impoverished nation. Alfonso Portillo took office in 2000 pledging to redistribute Guatemala’s wealth. Portillo, 61, allegedly ran scams to drain the impoverished country's coffers. The feds say Portillo embezzled about $2.5M provided by the Taiwanese embassy....$1.5 million was earmarked for “Libraries for Peace”....books for school kids.
Portillo personally endorsed three, $500,000 checks issued against an account at the Intl Bank of China in Manhattan, then deposited the cash in the Miami bank account of a Guatemalan bank controlled by “a close associate and political supporter” .....the money was funneled to bank accounts in Paris in the names of Portillo’s ex-wife and daughter.
Portillo swindled nearly $4M defense funds ...and plundered the national bank run by his alleged co-conspirator through overdrafts financed by public reserves -- stolen money paid for expensive watches and cars, for himself and his associates, according to the indictment. (Source: NY POST news report.)
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Guatemala receives $391.8 annually in direct US aid earmarked for the poverty-stricken populations they are now throwing over the border---- does not reflect US military aid and other US agencies' aid to these swindlers. Where is the US aid money going?
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WIKI The Guatemalan population in the US per the 2010 Census was 1,044,209. Guatemalans are the fifth largest Hispanic group in the United States and the second largest Central American population, after Salvadorans. Half of the Guatemalan population is situated in two parts of the country, the Northeast and Southern California.
Along with other Central Americans such as Costa Ricans, they first arrived by way of Mexico and settled in urban areas like Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Houston, New York City and San Francisco.
The intensification of the Guatemalan Civil War during the 1970s and 1980s led to an influx of tens of thousands of Guatemalan refugees into the United States via Mexico, via both legal and illegal means. Guatemalan refugees became an important political and economic influence on seeking an end to their homeland's civil war, which finally came about in 1996.
They also organized to change policies of the Mexican government in dealing with Guatemalan immigrants' legal status, their experience in Mexico, and difficulties of Guatemalans in Mexico immigrating to the US.
Half of the Guatemalan population is situated in two parts of the country, the Northeast and Southern California. A combined population of 267,335 resides in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. The Northeast megalopolis, extending from Northern Virginia to north of Boston is home to a population of 257,729 Guatemalans. Cities such as Langley Park, Maryland, Trenton, New Jersey, Stamford, Connecticut, Providence, Rhode Island, and Lynn, Massachusetts have significant concentrations of Guatemalans along the corridor.
States with largest Guatemalan pressure groups---trading votes for more foreign aid: (Source: 2010 Census): California - 332,737 Florida - 83,882 New York - 73,806 Texas - 66,244 New Jersey - 48,869 Georgia - 36,874 Illinois - 35,321 Maryland - 34,491 Virginia - 33,556 Massachusetts - 32,812
Its getting tiresome.
At least somebody gets it. Bump.
Oh, I’m not the only one; I just give voice to it at EVERY opportunity. ;)
Try it on your Libtard co-workers, family members and acquaintances when they start mouthing off. (They are by NO MEANS, ‘Friends.’)
Wink *REAL BIG* when you say it and elbow them in the ribs. GENTLY, as Libtards are p*ssies for the most part!
It’s effective as all hell, LOL! ‘Deer In The Headlights Stare,’ most times.
Flippin’ MORONS. :)
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