Posted on 07/10/2014 7:10:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama has asked Congress for billions of dollars to address a crisis that is in part the product of his own policies — policies he would like to expand, in fact.
Yes, there are fundamental forces pushing Central Americans, including a startling number of unaccompanied children, to try to cross our borders illegally. But Obama’s non-enforcement of our immigration laws, his amnesty for illegal-alien children, and his vigorous push for immigration reform with a much broader amnesty as its central element have played a big role in creating our current crisis.
So it’s hardly surprising that his proposal supposedly meant to fix the problem would in fact do no such thing. House Republicans should reject the president’s request flat-out and pass an entirely different bill, aimed at stemming the tide of illegal immigration rather than reinforcing a system that contributed to this crisis. One branch of government, which controls the purse strings, needs to show it’s serious about this problem. The White House is asking for $3.7 billion in emergency funding for the problem, when there isn’t really a funding emergency: Most of the costs of the surge have been placed on HHS, which deals with housing child detainees and happens to be the second largest cabinet department. It, like the other federal agencies involved, has plenty of funds to deal with the crisis for now.
There are numerous policies Americans would support that don’t cost very much and would seriously address illegal immigration; essentially none of them are in the president’s funding request. His priorities are clear enough: There’s noticeably more money allocated to housing and caring for illegal immigrants here than to prosecuting and removing them.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans have been slow to suggest their own ideas and don’t have a great track record on this issue. Their efforts to beef up the anti-illegal-immigration elements of the Senate’s Gang of Eight bill, epitomized by the Corker-Hoeven border-security amendment, have generally involved lots of spending and few useful policy changes.
Policies that could reduce future illegal immigration abound. Republicans should pass more funding for the apprehension and deportation of illegal immigrants in the interior of the country, a priority that this president especially has neglected, and push for building new detention facilities near the border and in the interior to hold, rather than catch-and-release, illegal immigrants until they can get a hearing. The mandatory use of E-Verify, suggested by Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), would also help change the fundamental economic incentives that draw people here illegally. None of these policies should be a tough sale to a public that’s much more concerned about illegal immigration than the president is.
There are a couple of good ideas in the president’s request. He proposes a small amount of funding for more immigration judges, which would help reduce the deportation backlog (though unfortunately, and potentially illegally, it’s accompanied by money to pay for illegal aliens’ legal defense). There’s also a modest amount of money for programs to break up smuggling networks in Central America that bring illegals here. Such programs can be tremendously cost-effective and deserve more funding. But any bill the House passes to fund these measures should be aimed at reorienting our immigration-enforcement policies to prevent the president from abusing the system as he has.
Obama has backed off from changing the Wilberforce Act of 2008 so that authorities won’t be prevented from deporting illegally arrived children. The Wilberforce Act was an effort by a Democratic Congress to address human trafficking — a serious problem — that has had the unintended effect of pushing the Border Patrol to hand over unaccompanied minors to HHS for more or less permanent resettlement. Such children should be subjected to expedited removal by law enforcement; the law makes this harder for a large number of them at the moment.
Fixing this, like providing more funding for various parts of the enforcement bureaucracy, is necessary but not sufficient. President Obama, ever solicitous of his far-left base and ethnic pressure groups, is loath to enforce our immigration laws. The problems his policies have created are something he will not face (quite literally: He refuses to visit the border). Congress must try to get the law enforced and prevent him from continuing his preferred policies. It’s the only way to solve the current crisis and start reducing the flow of illegal immigration.
Who believes these bureaucrats? It is in their best interests to lie.
Americans have stopped working. More than half our population today receives some type of free handout. There's chaos on Washington. They've run out of tax dollars to pay for all the promised "entitlements.".
Neither Republicans or Democrats know what to do about this. These children are being brought in as slaves. Someone has to pick our food.
Neither party will send them home. Without an outside source to do the work "that Americans won't do", things are only going to get worse. Much, much worse.
The politicians - those who believe they're Gods among men - will quickly find out they've brought in hundreds of thousands of NEW welfare recipients rather than the working slaves they envisioned. This WILL get worse because of it. Much, much, MUCH worse.
BTW, SS and Medicare will run out of money next year - 2015.
People have also lost faith in their government because it's become so corrupt. Government is afraid of "fringe groups" rising up who'll expose them for what they are and what they've done - which is why they're attacking the Tea Party Patriots, for example. The truth being brought to light makes it even harder for them to keep up their facade.
More and more people are going galt. Going galt means no tax revenue. No tax revenue means no more vote buying and loss of political power.
The government is losing control, but they brought it upon themselves because they put themselves - their power, their luxuries, their families - ahead of the people they vowed to serve. Their chickens are coming home to roost, and the American people are going to suffer greatly because of it.
This 6 minute video may help. With assists from “academia”, liberal Jews and a few others, the 47% no/low info voters hooked on “free chit” put a MAD MAN in the Spite House! And if you thought the last 6 years were insane, wait until next year!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdaLIDaMuSo
Send your US rep an email telling them you don’t want them to give one more dime for that border fiasco. I sent my guy an email last night. I said let Obama own this one.
They will not be sent back, nor will they work, as the “free hand-outs” have already begun to discourage any kind of work, and he wants BILLIONS.
we are reaping what we have sowed in this country—utter chaos.
It is unfixable unless God intervenes in answer to the prayers of His people.
No names, no papers and no speakee da English. Here’s the trick. They can turn away Mexicans because they’re from an adjoining country. But we MUST by law take in any other from the other countries.
Looks like outside of Home Depot, waiting for call to pour concrete.
RE: But we MUST by law take in any other from the other countries.
Does the Bush era law really say that?
Or is that simply deduced from silence?
And likely 80% of them have gang tats. That January RFP is prima facie evidence this was a criminal act by members of our government.
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