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Children swarming southern border prove a test to Obama’s immigration policy: 60,00 minors.
Washington Times ^ | 05/29/2014 | By Stephen Dinan

Posted on 05/29/2014 11:06:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Children traveling without their families, including an “overwhelming” number younger than 12, are flooding across the southwestern border in the latest test of the Obama administration’s immigration policy.

Homeland Security Officials predict that 60,000 minors will cross the border this year and that the number will double next year, accounting for an astonishing percentage of people trying to jump the border — braving the tremendous perils of crossing Mexico and trying to evade border authorities, hoping to eventually connect with family in the U.S.

The administration seems powerless to stop most of the border breaches and instead has searched for ways to manage the flow of vulnerable, and politically sympathetic, immigrants.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegal; immigration
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To: txrefugee

I bet they Dream® mostly of Doritos and blonde girls


21 posted on 05/29/2014 11:49:11 AM PDT by equalator
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To: SeekAndFind

if you want your family together...head back to your homeland. simple enough.


22 posted on 05/29/2014 11:50:38 AM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: ealgeone

Obama’s plan is to bring their families to the US just before Nov Election ,that would be 60,000 X 20+ , but by Nov that 60,000 will be 660,000


23 posted on 05/29/2014 11:54:11 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: SeekAndFind
Surprising & Unexpected!


24 posted on 05/29/2014 11:54:27 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: GeronL

Minors, coal industry....


25 posted on 05/30/2014 5:54:31 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: longfellow

Lol


26 posted on 05/30/2014 6:03:55 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SeekAndFind
Dreaming Nightmare

. . . the numbers have been rising steadily for several years, and that the administration should have been better prepared. “This is a crisis on the level of the Mariel crisis. This far outstrips the agency’s capacity to deal with it in the normal way” . . . they don’t seem to be taking any steps to prevent it from happening.”

The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats (the Clintons) and their ideological issue (Obama) don't care who suffers.. what matters is how does it help them.

Election November 1992 the Clintons made much ado about "putting people first" and welcoming Haitians to the U.S. no matter how they got here.

Bush's racist policy of intercepting and repatriating Haitian immigrants was mean.

Just like today the Democrats created a mass of ILLEGAL aliens -- in this case it was of people trying to get here on almost anything that would float. Many died.

On the eve of his inauguration (January 1993), Clinton reversed himself and adopted Bush's position. The Haitians stopped the deadly effort to get here. The Clintons could have saved many lives if . . . .

27 posted on 05/30/2014 11:16:02 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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