Posted on 06/09/2014 8:42:01 PM PDT by Steelfish
White House To Request $2 Billion To Handle Border Influx of Children Nogales Border
Influx of children illegally crossing U.S. border is called a humanitarian crisis Federal officials scramble to respond to unexpected surge of minors immigrating alone into U.S.
A rush of young children crossing alone and illegally into the United States from Texas is so large and unexpected that senior officials with the Obama administration said Monday the White House is asking Congress for about $2 billion to grapple with what is being called a humanitarian crisis.
Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Immigration agents are so overwhelmed that some children are being kept in detention and being processed during a longer time period than the 72-hour maximum requirement, these senior administration officials acknowledged. The officials briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.
Although they said they had been prepared for an increase this year in the Rio Grande Valley, the influx was much greater than anticipated. As many as 90,000 minors are forecast to enter the U.S. this year without their parents or guardians, the officials said.
But these officials also reiterated that the increased influx of unaccompanied children who are crossing illegally into the United States through Texas is due to escalating violence in Central America and not because of false rumors that people who cross will be eligible for some sort of permanent immigration relief.
The Obama administration request for the funds would cover costs of the Health and Human Services' Unaccompanied Alien Children program and is just the latest effort by federal immigration officials to contain the crisis.
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You never want to let a crisis go to waste.....
Screw Obama. He can get the money from the Latin American countries.
That’ll sure stop the influx won’t it.
Fund it and you will get more of it.
Take it out of the INS budget and it will end.
Two billion to justify not enforcing the law?
Just like they are investigating “fast and furious,” the IRS scandals, Benghazi, and on and on. Nothing is ever resolved. Why waste your time you feckless “republicans?”
And now you want us to accept the blatant refusal to uphold the rule of law by this fool on the hill, a man intent on destroying this country? 36,000 illegal alien lawbreakers released, including murderers? Why have a law at all? Let a US citizen break the law and see if that person gets the courtesy with no due process. We are living in a time that a president has flagrantly violated the law and no one cares. The RHINOS are now complicit in his lawless actions. And now Cantor wants to go ahead with amnesty? Why not just open the borders and let the entire world in? Sorry, the fool on the hill is doing that. My mistake.
How about spending that money on securing our border?
Silly. If we secure our border we can’t import all those needed Dim voters. /s
This is the tip of the iceberg. These kids’ extended families are not far behind.
It wouldn’t be humane to separate the kids from their families. /s
2 Billion buys a whole loot of FENCE
triple layer , minefields in the middle , moats with crocs , the whole 9 yards....
Far behind? I’m sure they’re right there with them but propoganda photos just show the childrens.
At least Obama is being efficient by denying blame for a problem as soon as it happens.
Lobster and steaks are expensive these days, so are high thread count Egyptian cotton sheets and down pillows.
unexpected surge of minors immigrating alone?
They are advertising you can bring your children and get free stuff in Central America.
Unexpected? No. Designed.
Notice how they’re funneling in/being sent to *red* states? Texas, AZ and now, OK. Hmmm.
0 will have those illegals *Dim voting citizens*, in no time.
$2 Billion/90,000 kids = $22,222 per kid.
(I thought it would be worse. But still.)
What’s Obama doing with the money for border control? The border patrol budget has risen to $3.5 billion from $1.0 billion in 2000. And they are doing a worse job.
According to Judge Napolitano, the President caused this to happen……….
A look at the major crisis at the southern border
Hundreds of undocumented children detained at border
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/the-kelly-file/index.html#/v/3614414335001
They are doing a worse job because of the rules of engagement and catch and release.
There’s no point in giving Obama $3.5 billion if he’s just going to waste it doing catch and release.
Now he is doing catch and release with terrorists.
Our soldiers over there are like gladiators and Emperor Near-0 keeps sending in more and more beasts
Did I miss something, like a secession?
Stopped reading here. Wake when you have a reporter who knows what day it is.
>> $2 Billion/90,000 kids = $22,222 per kid.
Insanity!
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