US expands 'catch and release' amid surge in migrants

Associated Press ^ | 02 Apr 2019 | CEDAR ATTANASIO and ASTRID GALVAN

[blueplum]

{snip}..."The federal government is saying, 'This is not our responsibility,'" Phillips said. "And the cities and states have not stepped up to provide any kind of emergency funding."

[blueplum]

Right there is the money sentence. Sanctuary cities and open border advocates are tight-wad hypocrites expecting the costs of the consequences of their actions to be passed on to all taxpayers. They'll assist caravans, help smuggle them across the border, get them free legal, work our BP to the bone, but then, oh, no, we can only feed or house 100 or 200, a week, even if 45,000 are coming per month, and the rest are the government's problem?

I think not.

[Windflier]

Are we citizens going to be forced to deal with the invaders ourselves? The wheels of government are locked up solid, and no one is coming to help us.

Call out the militia, Mr President!

[onyx]

Taxpayers in the various cities are getting stuck with the costs of these illegals: El Paso, TX, My San Diego, CA, to cite two cities.

In San Diego, the most recent “shelter” sits right next to City Hall! How fitting!

[elpadre]

“catch and release” - is that a law? a law passed by our Congress and signed by a sitting President?

if so, it must be rescinded, and rescinded NOW!!

[blueplum]

San Diego should bus them out to one of the 482 ‘proud’ sanctuary cities and 58 sanctuary counties in California. Just please don’t bus them to Riverside Co., we’re inundated already.

[blueplum]

I’d like to know who was given the contract for over a million ankle bracelets/chargers ? in less than a year? and who authorized said (no-bid?) contract. And what the price per unit is

[Truth29]

Transport them by the thousands to the hotbeds of liberalism - like San Francisco, Hollywood, Chicago, etc.

[Truth29]

Transport them by the thousands to the hotbeds of liberalism - like San Francisco, Hollywood, Chicago, etc.

[Misplaced Texan]

Just turn them loose with no state or federal aid whatsoever. See how long they want to stay.

[SkyPilot]

Are we citizens going to be forced to deal with the invaders ourselves? The wheels of government are locked up solid, and no one is coming to help us.

I can almost guarantee that if citizens of the US started to protect the border themselves, suddenly Washington DC and state governments would spring into action. The citizen defenders would be probably be arrested or gunned down.

I wish I was joking.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

That is what I think the solution is. I don’t see any other way to deal with this. We are losing this battle and losing it worse by the week.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

That is what I think the solution is. I don’t see any other way to deal with this. We are losing this battle and losing it worse by the week.

[Lurker]

Bus a few thousand to Massachusetts and then put them on ferries to Martha’s Vineyard. Then leave them.

Repeat the following week. And the week after that.

L

[SkyPilot]

"They treated us like animals," said Herling Jerlyn, a teenager from Guatemala.

Then go the $%^& back to Guatemala.

[DickBrannigan]

Don’t forget Nantucket!

[Lurker]

And Silicon Valley, and Marin, Napa, and Sonoma counties.

L

[EinNYC]

How about changing Catch & Release to Shoot & Incinerate? Wouldn’t take long to make a big dent in illegals coming over the border to be cut down by a hail of bullets. I am tired of being Uncle Sugar, to be sorely exploited for my good nature by criminals using that good nature against us.

[LouAvul]

Dunno bout el paso. But I could not care less about san diego. kommiefornia asked for it. Demanded it. Orchestrated it.

[odawg]

How is it possible that the state of California can violate immigration laws in the most public way possible and the Trump administration is scrupulous in dotting every i and crossing every t in its zeal to scrupulously obey every immigration law.

[blueplum]

San Diego is not a sanctuary city, tho. Send them north of Bakersfield. Like right in front of Apple’s spaceship.