Posted on 06/16/2014 7:48:58 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
WASHINGTON Facing a tide of unaccompanied children pouring into the U.S., the Obama administration will dispatch Vice President Joe Biden to Central America this week to make it clear they are not eligible for a path to citizenship and may be subject to deportation.
Biden will go to Guatemala on Friday at the end of a trip to South America, and will meet with government leaders from that country as well as El Salvador and Honduras, the administration said.
The visit comes amid an influx of tens of thousands of children crossing into the United States, many of them traveling alone.
A senior White House official attributed the flood of children to violence and a lack of economic opportunity in the region. But the official also acknowledged a “misperception of U.S. immigration policy” and said Biden will emphasize that illegal immigration is unsafe and that newly arriving children are not eligible for earned citizenship in the U.S.
“The bottom line is that it’s not worth subjecting children to a perilous journey when at the end of the day there is no light at the end of the tunnel,” the administration official said, speaking on a condition of anonymity as a matter of policy.
Critics have suggested that President Obama’s directive in 2012 to allow some undocumented immigrant children to defer deportation serves as a lure to immigrants. The directive applies only to children brought to the U.S. as minors before June 2007 — but critics charge that its encouraged illegal immigration.
Obama has described the situation as an “urgent humanitarian effort,’ but the administration official said Biden would make it clear that while the children are fed and cared for, “unaccompanied immigrant minors are still going through removal proceedings, just like anyone that crosses the border without proper documentation.”
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Plugs
If Biden is going to Central America he’ll think he’s in Kansas.
Children from Guatamala and Honduras and El Salvador disappear one night and then show up at the American border and no one in those countries is concerned about child trafficking of their own citizens???
They proceed through Mexico by train visible to everyone dangerously riding on top and Mexican authorities don’t stop it???
And our border patrol greets this influx with open arms and no questions???
What kind of bizarro world are we living in???
My guess is he will offer them all our welfare programs if they stay there.
If you think about it, ........ it would be cheaper. The only problem is that we already send welfare payments around the world and that’s not working out so well.
is he going as a voluntary hostage?
Can they keep him?
What's HIS tee time?
It’s a head fake for the low-information types and a tool for the media to cover up the truth with.
Is he taking the shotgun that he endorses? Or doesn’t he have an endorsement agreement with anyone yet. I can see it now. The jojo bitme signature model suitable for shooting in the air or through front doors.
Should triple the numbers in a week.
Wasn’t Plugs the Sheriff in charge of the Stimulus?
Will Joe Biden stop The Beast —
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3167581/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3167581/posts?page=5#5
or just make sure that it meets all NTSB and OSHA requirements for its trips north???
Yeah, because "citizenship" is the goal of any Illegal. I'm sure they'll just stay home if that's off the table. /s
“unaccompanied immigrant minors” B Hussein O.
What we got heah is, a failure to communicate.
We can impeach and remove this clown now or later.
Why wait?
But, then again, they may not . . . and that's why they and their families decided it would be worthwhile to take this risk.
Biden is going to hand out visas and passports like Chiclets.
How does Biden, of all people, paper over abdication of duty, treason and criminal intent of a manchurian president, by jostling down to meddle in South America, peddling his ridiculous one liners and “atta boys??
If it weren’t so dangerous it would be laughable.
he’s the administration’s bag man
Biden as well as TX Sen Cornyn (”Depublican”) http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/06/15/4980239/biden-heads-to-guatemala-to-discuss.html#.U58S5LFCyZQ
Rep Sen Cornyn wants to pay Mexico to control its’ US and southern Mexico border.
Biden goes to Central America to negotiate with countries to stop sending children to the US, will offer “aid”. What is the US willing to pay? Muslim Jizya and “immigration protection” payoffs are of parallel nature regarding the game’s payoff nature the US is willing under Obama to implement at any cost. The policy is to keep illegal immigration coming and prevention of same to be unsustainably ...COSTLY.
The US is unwilling to control its border at all and ANY costs...apparently
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