[Dubya]

Foster parents are reimbursed for costs of feeding their charges and ensuring they experience "environment" — which can mean trips to parks and malls. All homes are equipped with cribs for the many teenage girls arriving with babies or in advanced pregnancy. Eventually the children will be on their way to a relative or family friend's home — somewhere on the felt map of the United States that hangs in the agency's hallway.

[Dubya]

Immigration reform advocates say foster programs encourage fraud

[Lurker]

I am now convinced that our entire Government is shot through with the criminally insane.

There's no other rational explanation.

L

[NormsRevenge]

WHAT a country! /sarc

The International Educational Services, Inc. is shown Thursday, July 19, 2007,in Brownsville Texas, as a van drops off children at the entrance. The service takes care and placement of illegal immigrant children in foster homes where they live until they can be united with a 'sponsor,' a parent, relative or family friend within the United States. (AP Photo/Joe Hermosa)

[kingu]

You know, it’s almost a shame. Someone could have a crack addicted parent, live in the worst of conditions, and illegals get better treatment by the system.

[Altura Ct.]

The foster care programs emerged from the 1997 settlement of Flores vs. Reno, a class-action lawsuit against the former Immigration and Naturalization Service. The suit argued it was wrong for children caught by the Border Patrol to be treated punitively like the adults.

Under the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which abolished INS and created the Department of Homeland Security, the care and placement of illegal immigrant children was transferred to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Children would fall under the purview of social service and not federal law enforcement officials.

"The government felt DHS was doing it from a legal authority perspective," said Teresa Brooks, an Office of Refugee Resettlement official responsible for overseeing immigrant foster care programs in the Rio Grande Valley. "They're law enforcement, and that's the way they are."

International Educational Services, which is a nonprofit agency, is one of more than 30 under contract with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Since January, the agency has received $5 million in federal money for two foster programs and the detention center where teens are housed a few miles away in Los Fresnos.

So it is all "Legal". We have lost our minds and are in the process of losing our country.

[Gay State Conservative]

Brownsville is just a short swim from the border,isn’t it?

[msmagoo54]

“The children are illegal immigrants, and all but one are from Central America.”

I suspect that all but one was from Mexico.
Mexico is part of North America.

“One, a 13-year-old from Honduras, said she thought the journey was fun.”

In other words, if I’m interpreting this correctly, the 13-yr-old is probably the only one from Central America.

[org.whodat]

The foster care programs emerged from the 1997 settlement of Flores vs. Reno, a class-action lawsuit against the former Immigration and Naturalization Service. The suit argued it was wrong for children caught by the Border Patrol to be treated punitively like the adults

If conservatives and the religious right allow this hijacking of the rule of law in violation of the congress and the constitution and stealing of tax payers dollars. Just wait tile the liberals use the same ruse for their abortion and socialized medicine and so forth...........There will be no stopping them. When two attorney can get together and decide how and where tax payers money is spent the goose is cooked. What do you need congress for??

[VA Voter]

Self Deportation of Illegal Aliens

Reset the minimum wage for employees that employers DO NOT validate against the federal register.

1. Have states set a minimum daily wage of $200 per day for each and every employee that is unverified against the federal register.

2. Make the employer liable for all applicable social security, federal and state income taxes, workman’s compensation, health insurance, 401(k) and any other withholding or matching funds available to verified employees at the reset minimum wage.

3. Make the reset minimum wage eligible for class action claims against the employer for any and all employees not legally validated.

4. Enable workers to use cell phone video for evidentiary purposes against employers.

5. Sit back and watch the great sucking sound of illegals self deporting themselves back across the border.

[LNewman]

In fact, 68 percent of the juveniles never appear in court, according to a 2004 analysis by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok said it was up to the sponsor to bring children to their proceedings.

I'm wondering if these "sponsors" are reimbursed having ignored court appearances.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!

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