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Border Crisis Scrambling the Politics of Immigration Policy
The Washington Post ^ | Saturday, July 12, 2014 | Karen Tumulty and David Nakamura

Posted on 07/12/2014 6:42:37 PM PDT by kristinn

Until now, the politics of immigration have been seen as a no-lose proposition for President Obama and the Democrats. If they could get a comprehensive overhaul passed, they would win. And if Republicans blocked it, the GOP would further alienate crucial Hispanic and moderate voters.

But with the current crisis on the Southwest border, where authorities have apprehended tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children since October, that calculus may be shifting.

Republicans and even some Democrats have accused Obama of being insufficiently engaged in a calamity that many say he should have seen coming.

And the president’s own party is deeply divided over what must be done now — particularly on the sensitive question of deporting children who have traveled thousands of miles and turned themselves in to U.S. authorities to escape from the desperate situations they faced in countries such as Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

The emergency has also renewed questions about the administration’s competence, reminiscent of those raised during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, last year’s botched rollout of the health-care law and more recent revelations of mismanagement that jeopardized care of patients at veterans hospitals.

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Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) agreed in an interview: “I would like to see him place greater emphasis on the interests of these children who are refugees from extreme violence and instability in their home countries” instead of “an acceleration of the deportation process at the expense of these children.”

But O’Rourke added that he has been surprised by the anger he has heard toward the refugees from many of his El Paso constituents, who “feel like we can’t take care of everyone, and these children and their families are gaming the system.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; immigration; obama
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To: umgud
Blacks in inner cities are upset they don’t get the attention these invaders get.

I agree. I don't agree with the methods but they're Americans first and foremost and their problems take precedence over any illegal.
21 posted on 07/12/2014 7:57:55 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: kristinn

Wait until the Hispanics kids come home with TB or Scabies... See how that goes over... I grew up with Hispanics, family and children are their entire lives for most of them... That is their primary motivation.


22 posted on 07/12/2014 8:00:03 PM PDT by El Laton Caliente (NRA Life Member & www.Gunsnet.net Moderator)
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To: mgist
"The problem is Obama’s false pretense. He lies, and it is another one of his crimes against humanity to destroy many innocent people, as a means to an end...."

.... That is why the "Liberal/Socialist" movement is so strong. The Socialist/Communist movement closely mimics what is a natural proclivity in most such as "Caring for the needy and the unfortunate." This is how they are able to sway people and nations. The mimicry even feigns Christianity in many ways especially in the helping the needy part. Taking but a portion of a wealthy persons riches and giving it to the poor and needy. After all it's only fair right?

.... Well the way I look at it ... it's kind of like the difference between giving a donation from the heart to help out a charity .... and that same charity coming to your house and demanding at gunpoint money to pay for their expenses. Both of those scenarios achieve the same end ..... the charity receives money for their cause .... but one is given by freedom and charity .... the other by force.

..... So ... to me ... taking advantage of the final throes of charity left in a country being transformed by a person seeking to install a system that takes by force rather than a free nation that gives by the values of giving from the heart .... is an act that is spawned by "The One" that is the "Master of Deception ... and the "Father of "Lies" .... to achieve something that many of us cannot even imagine. It's literally the difference between the wonderful act of "Making Love" and the act of "Being Raped." It's the same ends .... but one is pure evil.

.... I think it is important for EVERYBODY to understand .... that there are two ways of living in this world ..... ONE is the way of "Giving" .... and the other is the way of "Taking."

.... This nation has lost it's way and has gotten away from it's foundational principles. Unfortunately I believe that this nation is about to wander for a long time until it regains it's foothold on freedom once again.

23 posted on 07/12/2014 8:03:51 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Bribery works at many levels, from the heart and the aorta to the capillaries.

This "federal cash" is our taxpayer money. We are paying for our own invasion!!!

GRRRR!!!!!


24 posted on 07/12/2014 8:24:35 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: R_Kangel
This nation has lost it's way and has gotten away from it's foundational principles. Unfortunately I believe that this nation is about to wander for a long time until it regains it's foothold on freedom once again.

We are no longer the same nation demographically thanks to mass immigration and the 1965 Immigration Act. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as classified by the USG and by 2043 we will be a majority minority nation. Demography is destiny. We are being colonized by the Third World.

25 posted on 07/12/2014 8:25:17 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Travis McGee

All of this leftist smoke and mirrors can’t build anything but a sick mediocrity.


26 posted on 07/12/2014 8:26:37 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: kabar

Ultimately, theology is destiny.

A whole lot of the Hispanic influx is nominally Catholic Christian, but only nominally.

It’s frustrating to me, from what I believe to be a “generic Christian” view point, to see it. People are not asking too much out of God. People are asking too LITTLE. And then they build their own unfriendly empires and it just goes all to hell.


27 posted on 07/12/2014 8:28:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The Rat and GOPe elites don’t have to live in these new barrio slums, created when 4 families live in single family homes, etc.


28 posted on 07/12/2014 8:30:44 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Note the cross and rifles logo of the Brown Berets of Aztlan.

They led the big march, right next to the AMNESTY banner.


29 posted on 07/12/2014 8:32:01 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Yes, it is very rare to see a liberal actually “sharing the wealth.” Unless it’s somebody else’s wealth. Their own? God forfend!


30 posted on 07/12/2014 8:32:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Travis McGee

This is a scene of people centered pride and it is enmity to God. The devil is giggling his fool “red tights” off at this.

People could get along a lot better with one another if they cared about the Lord first of all. There isn’t even a HINT of theology I see here. It’s basically a repackaged Marxism.


31 posted on 07/12/2014 8:34:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

If theology is destiny, then stick a fork in us, we are already done.


32 posted on 07/12/2014 9:02:39 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

If we don’t choose a different relationship with God, it is our fault not God’s fault.


33 posted on 07/12/2014 9:04:55 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I am not blaming God. I am just observing reality and the decline of America morally, economically, and militarily. There is no coming back.


34 posted on 07/12/2014 9:11:31 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

The way back would be a way of frank miracle.

To declare God incapable of extending the help would be to blaspheme Him.


35 posted on 07/12/2014 9:17:37 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: mgist

“Expats are not a valid source to measure a decline in a society.”

They would still know if there where problems outside their exclusive communities -from newspapers, servants, neighbors, TV, the internet.

If the country was so detrimental to live in that parents would rather send their children on an unaccompanied, thousand mile trip through treacherous territory than have them stay with their family, surely at minimum talk of the problems would be going around.

Jewish parents in Czechoslovakia sent their children on trains to England after Hitler took over. The alternative was the gas chamber. But even these trips were organized by a kind soul in England, funded by the parents and English families, and the children went on a train that wouldn’t get lost.

IMO this invasion is just as orchestrated, but not for good reasons. The plan is to force amnesty and adhere to the Coward-Piven strategy to take down this country.


36 posted on 07/12/2014 9:18:01 PM PDT by yorkiemom ( "...if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Kackikat; SayNoToDems

That was a great idea. I just figured if things were that bad in any of those countries, we’d have heard about it before the invasion -not after.


37 posted on 07/12/2014 9:19:33 PM PDT by yorkiemom ( "...if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yeah, right.


38 posted on 07/12/2014 9:50:55 PM PDT by kabar
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To: yorkiemom

(forgot to include pertinent info about the Jewish Czechoslovakian children - they were going to English families so their parents knew they’d be taken care of. Most importantly, they went to England LEGALLY. The man orchestrating the move got visas for the children. Imagine that!)


39 posted on 07/12/2014 10:03:00 PM PDT by yorkiemom ( "...if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: R_Kangel

Agreed


40 posted on 07/13/2014 2:13:13 AM PDT by mgist (.)
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