Perry: Obama Doesn’t Know Where the Border Patrol is Stationed

White House Dossier ^ | 7-11-14 | Keith Koffler

[afraidfortherepublic]

Well, here’s one good reason for President Obama to have visited the border, beyond his contemptuous claim that it would be no more than a “photo op,” which of course is something The One never engages in.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry last night told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that during his discussion with Obama Wednesday, he concluded that the president doesn’t even know where his own border patrol agents are situated, suggesting a gross lack of familiarity with the whole process.

Perry said:

We ought to be stopping people from crossing that border, not apprehending them after they get inland. And the president understood that. And, interestingly he did not know that. He – I’m comfortable that he was not knowledgeable about where his border patrol was stationed.

And, he gave me indications that he would work with them to move them upward to where they could be side-by-side with the DPS, with local law enforcement, with the other individuals who are sending that message all the way down to Central America: Don’t send your kids, don’t come up here, because the border, it is shut down.” The idea of moving them up is to keep Central American kids from coming to the border in the first place, because once they’re here, they are going to stay.

In just the latest example of false information disseminated by the president and his White House, the message Obama is trying to send that Central American children will be sent home is simply not true.

According to a Wall Street Journal story today, titled Few Children are Deported:

Data from immigration courts, along with interviews with the children and their advocates, show that few minors are sent home and many are able to stay for years in the U.S., if not permanently.

In fiscal year 2013, immigration judges ordered 3,525 migrant children to be deported, according to Justice Department figures. Judges allowed an additional 888 to voluntarily return home without a formal removal order.

Those figures pale in comparison with the number of children apprehended by the border patrol. In each of the last five years, at least 23,000 and as many as 47,000 juveniles have been apprehended.

So these kids are making a rational choice based on the untended consequences of a 2008 law that ensures they must have a hearing before being deported, as well as the consistent message of lenience, particularly for children, sent by the Obama administration.

In fact, the number of children physically removed from the United States has declined every year since Obama took office, totaling just 1,600 during fiscal year 2013, less than half the total for 2009.

This White House created a problem. And as usual when Obama crises break out, the administration wasn’t ready for it, despite signs that it would happen.

[Uncle Chip]

That must be Rick Perry’s selfie that he is using to substitute for doing anything meaningful:

“Look at me — I’m serious — I have my cap on backwards to show it — and my life jacket.

“Okay that’s enough — I’m getting spray in my face — drop me off at shore and let me got back to Austin where I can now claim that I atleast went to the border — once upon a time.

[Count of Monte Fisto]

I’m sure our politicians are getting lots of phone calls and emails.

The situation is so dire Texans should be near rioting in the politicians' offices. They should be getting in their 'leaders' faces anytime they are in public. I live in a deep blue area, behind enemy lines, but I would hope there are millions of Texans that are as mad as me and if they acted in unison and tumultuously and rudely DEMANDED action they could get some results.

[afraidfortherepublic]

As it is you come to El Paso and it feels like you are in Mexico already nobody talks English you go to every store in the city and and the main language people speak in Spanish.

Fresno, California is almost as bad.

[Boogieman]

“Question: If the illegal immigrants are intercepted AT the border, do they fall under different regulations than they do if they are intercepted 40 miles inland?”

Yes, I believe that is the case. If they are caught at the border, they can be turned away, no questions asked. If they are caught in our territory, they have the opportunity to try and claim refugee status, and then they must be given a hearing. At least that is the way it works for Cuban refugees with the “one foot on dry land” rule. I believe it it works the same way if they come over on land as well.