Posted on 07/08/2014 10:15:25 AM PDT by PoloSec
(Reuters) - The White House asked the U.S. Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency spending on Tuesday to address a cross-border surge of children from Central America that is taxing public resources and causing a political headache for President Barack Obama.
It was Obama's most substantive response to date as he struggles to gain control of a humanitarian crisis along the Texas border with Mexico. The money would both pay to care for the children and accelerate a return to their home countries.
The funding move will test Obama's ability to negotiate effectively with Republican lawmakers who have blocked much of his agenda ahead of a November election when they hope to capture the U.S. Senate.
Obama has vowed to swiftly return to their home countries the tens of thousands of children under 18 who have flocked to the United States in recent months. Many who flee are escaping extreme poverty, gangs and drug violence.
He risks the wrath of Latino allies in the United States who are looking to him to act on his own to loosen, not strengthen, immigration rules.
Seeking to make the request more politically acceptable to lawmakers, the White House added $615 million in urgently needed money to help fight summer wildfires that have been raging in western states.
This brought the total funding request to $4.315 billion, a figure that some Republicans might find difficult to swallow without budget cuts elsewhere.
Due to leave on a Democratic Party fundraising trip to Colorado and Texas, Obama has offered to meet while in Texas with the border state's Republican governor, Rick Perry, who has criticized Obama's refusal to visit the border.
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NO.
Drop them all off at the Mexican COnsulate.
You’d be amazed at how fast the ‘problem” went away once the Mex consulate got flooded with their people, who were then UNABLE TO LEAVE because they are blockaded in.
Is he trying to force the American People to march up to the Capitol and start pitching everyone out of office? Sure seems like it. I think he’s trying to force The People to become unhinged so he can try out his Brownshirt army.
create crisis...ask for money (that won’t even help crisis)...repeat
Maybe we should organize a march to the Mexican Capitol and film how THEY treat US...
3.6 billion for a border fence and $6 million for Greyhound Bus tickets to the border crossing from which they came.
That too.
I’m sure the POS will put this money to good use, like he did the stimulus.
Too much money to “solve” a problem he created. Suggest the funds be taken out of Democratic and Union coffers.
Drop them off at the Chinese consulate. That’s where a huge number of them come from.
They’re smuggled in through Cuba or VZ and then smuggled across the Mexican border, usually along the coast, and overland to the US. They’ve paid a fortune for this, btw, and will be slaves when they get here.
But Bambi doesn’t care. He’s probably got a golf date, anyway.
Paging Captain Obvious. They don’t even try any more. Chutzpah - 100%, creativity - 0%
Not only NO! , but HELL NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What we need is COMPREHENSIVE IMPEACHMENT of B. Hussein Obama !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> create crisis...ask for money (that won’t even help crisis)...repeat
bump
Not No, but Hell NO!!!
>> Is he trying to force the American People to ...
He is definitely not serving the best interests of the Country.
Probably cheaper to buy them all houses and give them full ride scholarships. 1/2 sarc
Amen! This whole thing is revolting!
Who could believe a single word this shameless liar says about this issue? In a radio spot I heard on this subject earlier today, it actually said one use of the money would be “building dormitories”. Don’t know yet it that was correct.
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