Obama State Dep't. Creates New Program to Import Children from Latin America

CNSNews ^ | November 14, 2014 | Brittany M. Hughes

[jazusamo]

(CNSNews.com) - The Obama administration announced on Friday a plan to create a new refugee/parole program for children in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras whose parents are legal residents of the United States.

“This program will allow certain parents who are lawfully present in the United States to request access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for their children still in one of these three countries,” the State Department said in a news release. The department added that “[c]hildren who are found ineligible for refugee admission but still at risk of harm may be considered for parole on a case-by-case basis.”

The State Department said the new, in-country program is a “safe, legal, and orderly alternative to the dangerous journey that some children are currently undertaking to the United States.”

Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, refugee status is reserved for people fleeing their home country due to “persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”

But under the new program, a child who doesn’t qualify as a refugee might still come to the United States.

“Applicants found by DHS to be ineligible for refugee status in the United States will be considered on a case-by-case basis for parole, which is a mechanism to allow someone who is otherwise inadmissible to come to the United States for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit,” the State Department said.

“Humanitarian parole” is a category found under Section 212.5 of the INA that allows a non-U.S. citizen entrance into the United States on a temporary basis due to “urgent humanitarian reasons” or “significant public benefit.” In the past, this status has been granted to persons with serious medical needs, pregnant women and to some Cuban citizens.

“An individual considered for parole may be eligible for parole if DHS finds that the individual is at risk of harm, he/she clears all background vetting, there is no serious derogatory information, and someone has committed to financially support the individual while he/she is in the United States,” the State Department said in the news release.

Under the new program, parents of a “paroled” child will need to pay the cost of the child’s medical clearance and travel to the United States.

“Parole is temporary and does not confer any permanent legal immigration status or path to permanent legal immigration status in the United States,” the State Department said, adding that these children “are not eligible for medical and other benefits upon arrival in the United States, but are eligible to attend school and/or apply for employment authorization.”

Parole is granted on an initial period of two years with an option to renew, the State Department added.

In order to be considered for the new program, the child must undergo a pre-screening interview, DNA testing to confirm parentage and an interview to determine if he or she qualifies for refugee status, the State Department said. They must also undergo “security checks” and a medical screening.

If the child is approved for admission into the U.S., the child’s parent(s) must sign a form agreeing to repay the cost of his or her travel to the United States, according to the State Department.

“Approved refugees will be eligible for the same support provided to all refugees resettled in the United States, including assignment to a resettlement agency that will assist with reception and placement, and assistance registering children in school,” the news release said.

The State Department emphasized that the new program will not be available to illegal alien parents who are currently in the United States.

“The refugee/parole program will not be a pathway for undocumented parents to bring their children to the United States, but instead, the program will provide certain vulnerable, at-risk children an opportunity to be reunited with parents lawfully resident in the United States.”

[jazusamo]

Just wonderful...Another brainchild from 0bama and thugs bringing in more illegals, what could possibly go wrong? /SARC

[Ingtar]

If the parents are already here legally, they already have a method to bring in their children.

[Liz]

FREEPER IOWA CORNMAN POSTED: I suggest we start raising hell with our representatives that we want no funding of any of this......We need injunctive relief immediately in the federal courts to enjoin any federal agency from implementing this unconstitutional madness.

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Capitol switchboard...1-866-220-0044.
Call or write your legislator ASAP.

MESSAGE: tell Congress that your midterm vote was specific---a demand that they fight tooth and nail---using both tooth and nail----to demolish the Obama/Reid amnesty plan to force American taxpayers to subsidize the expansion of the Democrat party w/ foreign voters.

AMERICANS HAVE BEEN VERY PATIENT: Americans demand the Republican leadership tell Obama: "If the president unilaterally moves to augment the power of the Executive Branch in an unprecedented and unconstitutional manner via E/O'ing amnesty, then the Legislative Branch will need to increase its powers in order to maintain the balance of powers called for in the US Constitution.

The Senate can do this in an unprecedented but completely constitutional manner, by providing that the filibuster rule is suspended completely until such time as the president withdraws his executive aggrandizement.

RATIONALE--Obama's temporary amnesty E/O requires temporary suspension of the rule. That should also include Congress passing laws without the president signing the bill.

If it is okay for the president to overreach, then it is okay for Congress to overreach. Obama forgets that the Congress---and Americans---can also say, “We have been patient.”

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THIS NEEDS TO GO VIRAL----STOP OBAMA IN HIS TRACKS :

(1) Fund every penny that is budgeted now.....except defund all DHS, ICE, HHS and USCIS' rubber-stamp activities. Defund anything and everything that directly and indirectly deals with amnesty: work permits, green cards for illegals, gravy train subsidies, re-situating unaccompanied minors w/ families. Then let Obama defend his amnesty E/O or take the blame for the entire shutdown himself.

(2) As a further warning----no votes on ANY Obama nominees until Jan 20, 2017. No judges, No Attorney General, no sub-cabinet secretaries. NOTHING----thanks to the SCOTUS ruling, Obama could not recess-appoint ANYONE, if the House declares the Congress is always in session.

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[Pearls Before Swine]

Millions of Hispanics... no wonder he had to float the 100,000 Haitians to the black portion of his base.

I suppose that Obama isn’t worried about jobs competition for the indigenous lower classes for two reasons. First, he’s going to raise the minimum wage, so those who work will be better off (/S). Second, he’s doing his best to increase the cushiness of the social safety net, so why work?

[Dagnabitt]

It's not complicated.

The current U.S. population isn't voting for democrats at a high enough rate.

So Democrats are importing a new population.

...and laws? Who needs them?

[jazusamo]

It would seem so. State Dept is not telling all about this new program.

[Liz]

THUS SPEAKETH THE STATE DEPT IDIOCRACY: “An individual considered for parole may be eligible for parole if DHS finds that the individual is at risk of harm, he/she clears all background vetting, there is no serious derogatory information, and someone has committed to financially support the individual while he/she is in the United States,” the State Department said in the news release.

Under the new program, parents of a “paroled” child will need to pay the cost of the child’s medical clearance and travel to the United States. “Parole is temporary and does not confer any permanent legal immigration status or path to permanent legal immigration status in the United States,” the State Department said, adding that these children “are not eligible for medical and other benefits upon arrival in the United States, but are eligible to attend school and/or apply for employment authorization.”

Parole is granted on an initial period of two years with an option to renew, the State Department added.

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OBAMA'S STINK TANK--Rice, Harf and Psaki--the Three Stooges of the Obama admin. These three idiots have top ntl security clearance. The word "embarrassing" doesn't really cover the depths of this idiocracy.

Why just last week, on broadcast TV---Psaki could not even find a State Dept report--that supposedly listed the "achievements of the ISIS airstrikes." Did you know Psaki regularly communicates w/ ISIS to get valuable inside information? Just the other day, Psaki said: "ISIS surprised itself w/ its ability to take so much territory in such a short time."

And we have this imbecile monitoring our ntl security.

[Thank You Rush]

“”This program will allow certain parents who are lawfully present in the United States to request access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for their children still in one of these three countries””

How old are these CHILDREN? Their medical expenses wouldn’t be paid for by the U. S. taxpayer but they can go to school OR apply for employment!!! Don’t figure there are too many jobs available for REAL CHILDREN!

I guess there could be a lot of reasons for the parents to be here without their children but could any of us picture leaving our children behind in a country that is full of danger? Of course, our definition of “children” isn’t the same as the government’s.......

Guess it’s a case of “walking in someone else’s shoes”.....

[jazusamo]

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[WayneS]

This program will allow certain parents who are lawfully present in the United States to request access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for their children still in one of these three countries...

If those are the real criteria, then this policy will affect, what, about 62 people at the most?

[Dagnabitt]

Look at the language State is using. The parents are described as "lawfully present". They're not described as U.S. citizens, or as Legal Permanent Residents (green card holders).

The weasel words "lawfully present" to me indicates that the parents are likely illegal aliens, but in some kind of deferred status, courtesy of one of the many Bush/Obama mini-amnesties for Central America.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Trial balloon. Who could possibly be against allowing the children of legal aliens to join their parents?

[Liz]

NO MENTION OF THE DHS MISSION TO PROTECT AMERICANS FROM HARM--- The State Dept says: “An individual from Latin America considered for Obama's parole plan may be eligible IF DHS finds that the individual is at risk of harm....

And no mention that known terrorists have been gathering in Mexico---b/c of the ease in violating our borders.....and could realistically be waiting in Latin America to get into Obama's parole plan.

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HERE'S HOW OBAMA/DHS "PROTECTS" AMERICANS---A (DHS) Intelligence Information Report (focusing on one small region of the vast US-Canadian border) reveals that as of September 9, 2014, there have been 155 encounters in the area “involving African nationals---344 Somalis, 21 Ethiopians, five Kenyans, two Djiboutians, and so on....

Days after the Canadian soldier was shot dead at the military shrine, a hatchet-wielding man, a member of the hallowed "religion of peace," savagely attacked and wounded NYC police officers. Later, kind and compassionate progressive City Officials said they "didn’t believe" the axe-killer had any connection to terrorism......

Of course not...only an intolerant racist would think this kindly man with an axe is (horrors) an actual "terrorist." In fact, the peace-loving axe-wielder meant no harm....he was here at the express invitation of the progressive Obama administration. Read on.

DHS SIGNS OFF ON Obama admin's law to let
into the US, immigrants with 'limited' terror contact
The Daily Caller | 2/5/14 / FR Posted by Nachum

The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.

“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained to The Daily Caller.

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry signed the exemptions. DHS contends that the law change is “commonsense” and that immigration procedures will remain the same in other respects. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...

US TAX DOLLARS FINANCE TERRORISM ---Obama's not merely "not fighting terrorists"---he's financing them and inviting them into our communities, forcing taxpayers to subsidize their evil deeds. Obama used the federal piggy bank to finance jihad.:

<><> $2 billion funding to the Muslim Brotherhood,

<><> $50 million to his Muslim brother's tax-exempt foundation.

<><> while Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge in Egypt, Obama and Hillary showered them w/ praise.....and billions of US dollars in aid, arms, tanks and planes.

[Dagnabitt]

Tens of thousands of kids were showing up at the border to join purported families in the USA.

This is just a way for Ogabe to redirect the deluge to less visible channels, i.e. commercial air travel with newly minted "legal" papers issued by a U.S. embassy/consulate.

[Dagnabitt]

The State Department said the new, in-country program is a “safe, legal, and orderly alternative to the dangerous journey that some children are currently undertaking to the United States.”

It's right there. They're talking big numbers. Totally detached from a basis in law. But who cares?

[DoughtyOne]

This can’t be allowed to continue!

[willyd]

This is being put in place so when the republicans cave on amnesty, not only will the 20 million here get amnesty, but their nephews, nieces, sons and daughters back in the south will also get amnesty.

[jazusamo]

You’re right...It’s a way to keep the heat off 0bambam for the illegal “children” coming in.

[jazusamo]

Agreed, but for at least the next two years it will. 0bama has to go.

[SpaceBar]

I’m so relieved that impeachment is off the table. /s