Posted on 07/09/2014 6:53:17 AM PDT by Welchie25
From the head of the U.S. agency in charge of the welfare of more than 50,000 Central American children who have been apprehended at the Mexican border, to the Honduran cardinal who heads the international Catholic relief agency, Caritas, the message was clear, those minors are as much refugees as the people fleeing upheaval in Syria or South Sudan.
“How are these children different from refugees from Sudan” or other war-torn countries, asked Eskinder Negash, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, known as ORR, in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Regardless of whether they have family here, they are refugees,” he said July 8.
By virtue of his position, Negash personally is legally responsible for the welfare of approximately 50,000 minors in ORR custody as arrangements are sought for them to be placed with relatives or in foster care while deportation is pursued.
Speakers at the 2014 National Migration Conference and in interviews with Catholic News Service said broad discussions about migration issues worldwide inevitably led to the recent surge of children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador across the U.S. border.
From an average of 6,000 or 7,000 such minors a year as recently as a few years ago, by mid-June, Homeland Security had apprehended more than 52,000 such children in this fiscal year. That has created a crisis for the Border Patrol, which first encounters them, and for ORR, which must find places to safely care for them.
Negash drew gasps from the audience when he explained that his responsibility for ORR’s charges includes personally approving health care decisions, such as how to treat an 11-year-old girl who’s pregnant, or another pregnant teen, who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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I agree. They are refugess form corrupt failed countries.
Put them in refugee camps and treat them well on the dime of the countries they came from. Place internatonal sanctions on these countries to pay for their refugees and until they change their treatment of citizens which is forcing so many to leave in the first place.
This is not an immigration issue. It is an issue of failed states offloading their poor onto neighboring countries.
Curious what others think. Is talking about these children as refugees a trap? Once they are designated refugees, the Executive Branch can offer asylum. Have to torture the definition of a few words to get there, but that is exactly what the left likes to do to plain meaning words.
The other end around Obeyme could pull is to pardon them.
Post of the Week nominee. Well done.
Hmm - where have we seen the "human shields" tactic before?
FU Negash, nobody asked to have violent parasitic Somalis dumped on us either, but you all keep doing it using grants from the government (our money), only to dump them on “the system” (also our money), and they know it too, that’s why they targetted Lewiston Maine.
Refugees come as whole families and stop as soon they escape the country/region they are from.
It is the Catholic Church’s policy on birth control that has caused this situation to begin with.
They’re worse than that.
http://gatetoliberty.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/washington-has-gone-completely-mad.html
Why stop at thinking of them as “refugees” {or “migrants} ... If we’re going to make up bullshit let’s go all the way. Why not think of them as “Gods to worship”? Or Unicorns in Flight?
(From my post above yours)
You’re putting me on, right? These folks are NOT at our border because they’re Catholic. They’re there because the hellholes they’re from are run by liberal elites for the benefit of liberal elites. The ‘out’ group of any liberal elite society wants to escape.... which is why we MUST NEVER allow our liberal elites to take over. We have no place to escape to...
Sorry, foreign citizens attempting to invade another country, except when threatened with torture or death by their native country, are *not* refugees, and should be promptly returned to their native country.
If they are unwilling to change their native country for the better, then they need to organize to do so.
Good question! Muslims and the Left both use human shields.
The Muslims use them in war because their military is weak, and because they are simultaneously brutal and cowardly.
The Left uses them in politics because their ideas are weak - and ditto.
In this case the Left are abusing 65,000 children, illegally trafficking them across the US border in order to bring about a demographic shift in voters.
Theft by immigration is wrong, and child-trafficking is wrong - but the Left will pretend that any attack on their lawless dissolution of the American border is in fact an attack on the 65,000 children.
The children are human shields for criminal activity, just like underage hostages caught up in a bank siege.
Borders make a sovereign country. Under Obama, America is literally not a sovereign country.
The Catholic Church is an enemy of the American People.
The Catholic Church didn’t traffic 65,000 children across your southern border and then demand billions of dollars.
Neither did the Baptists, nor did any other organization that is trying to assist with the massive child-care train-wreck created by the Obama administration.
It was your lawless government that did this thing.
Instead of a government being elected by its people, your government is trying to create a new people.
Send them all home to mommy
Providing moral cover for the communists in DC.
Shall we also talk about their position on Obamacare?
Yes, every thinking person knows the Catholic Church is an enemy of the American People.
Whether you think that's a good thing or bad thing is up to you.
They could only be refugees if they are Mexican nationals and claimed that status. If they are from other countries, as many are, they would be refugees only in the first foreign country they entered, whether that be Mexico, Guatemala, or another.
Honduran here. see my previous posts from 2009. obama/clinton sided with dictator to be, caught red handed with coke, ballots, demo consitution on laptop, we removed him. enough of that. cnn and the WH ignored 200,000 Hondurans protesting in Sula against US intervention on the side of the leftist Zelaya. huge screw up. so Hillary started this and it isnt getting press. spread the word. we evicted Zelaya as the prefered to show 16 guys burning a tire than 200,000 in peaceful protest against zelaya. the factories and jobs were good, USA and european factories. we refused Clinton airspace due to this, the WH unilaterally used ended imports from Hondurans making up reasons why food unsafe, collapsing farm economy. offers from Chinese buyers to work on your land for pennies, as a slave caused initial wave of immigrants, direct result of Clinton getting involved without any idea what was going on. follow this with recession. San Pedro Sula is lie Detroit, except instead of a million Michigan license plates in TX, you have Hondurans. TX should take this as compliment, we know where the jobs are. Ive been here for years as citizen but many of my family came in 2009, have married and gotten jobs and studied, and are here to receive the rest of the family. yes, the immigration policy is like speed on highway, if everyone goes fast, you can only get so many. what would you do to feed your kids? keep them safe? If you do not give Chinese buyer your farm they will illegally take using bank or burn your house, or the gangs will do it paid by them. they kill children. Now Chinese economy on verge of collapse, the remaining factories will close. we arent stupid. now is the time to get out. many vote democratic that I know from ESL class because republican party name is same as Chavez and other communists, but they figure it out. the US has no economically and tax conservative but socially liberal party, so we are torn. we all have businesses, go to church, wants house and car and to pay taxes. we cannot get SSN to pay taxes. during bad economy why throw money for junk cars and bad houses, give us papers and we will buy and pay taxes. we do not understand why politicians anywhere do not apply for job with resume. they are very stupid and make very bad decision if country is a business, they go out of business fast. So we want freedome, defense, family, church but no drugs no gangs, but justice. be gay or go to any church and sleep at night knowning gangs will not shoot your children. let people be free. Obama may give us papers but he will ruin country that is also our future and future of all free people and so we are happy but sad as world has so much disorder now. So clinton and Obama give us papers but cutting off all exports bankrupted our farms, that was mean and caused the start of this in 2009. we will not forget. papers yes, but we never wanted to leave our farms, many for generations. then recession, then Chinese will collapse. like Detroit. Like crap sandwich for us. oh, costa rica does discriminate and Mexico hate us so we are stuck. they allow gangs to extort and rape and rob and kill us. so this is not something you can understand. it is so bad that we risk death for the future in US. so I think we may value what you are losing, freedom, more than many from US. we will carry the flag but many things need fixing here also. do not lose our dream, it is our dream. also, why so many cameras on everything, so much money spending. who can see these cameras who is watching?
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