Posted on 06/20/2014 5:20:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SOUTH TEXAS (NEWSRADIO 1080 KRLD) – The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s arrival in Texas is being met with mixed feelings by some law enforcement officials along the border.
Don Reay, the Executive Director of the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition, says a visit by Johnson may have had more of an impact before plans were put into effect to transport and house the thousands of unaccompanied minors that have come into Texas through Mexico illegally.
“I would wish that this would have been done prior to all of this action so that there had been some advance knowledge of all of these actions passed onto local governments rather than — here it is folks,” says Reay. “The first I’ve heard of this trip is through the news media. None of my Sheriffs have contacted us to let them know that they’ve been contacted.”
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He thinks that Johnson’s arrival in Texas, only a few days after state leaders announced a border security surge, is more than just coincidental.
“I think it’s natural that he would come… especially in the light that the state of Texas has taken some very affirmative action as far as trying to deal with what is happening along our border and the impact that an influx of people has on our local communities,” says Reay.
In recent months, more than 47,000 unaccompanied minors from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have entered the U.S. illegally. It has overwhelmed border patrol and state resources to care and house them while they go through the immigration process. Some of those kids have been shipped to other states, like Arizona.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio thinks Johnson’s visit to Texas instead of the Grand Canyon State is a bit of a slap in the face.
“I think it’s kind of an insult. He’s going to Texas but he dumped all these people in Arizona at the Greyhound bus stop right around the corner from my office,” says Arpaio. “I’ve got a lot of questions to ask him, but he’s not going to call me. I’ll even go to Texas if he’s not willing to spend the gas to come to Arizona.”
Johnson and senior officials from the White House, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Departments of Defense, Justice, and Health and Human Services, will visit U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities and Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. The group will be viewing the ongoing government-wide response to the influx of unaccompanied children across the Southwest border, but a detailed schedule of their trip has not been released.
“He’s gonna go down there, and they’re going to look at the facilities — which by the way — everybody accuses me of how I run an awful jail — ‘a tent city.’ Mine are like a country club compared to how they’re keeping these young people,” says Arpaio. “I’m sure they’re going to clean up the place a little before he shows up. I’m talking about his own people who are going to at least clean the toilets.”
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Arpaio, like Reay, thinks that Johnson’s visit has been timed with the announcement of a recent security surge along the Texas-Mexico border.
“Is it because my friend Governor Perry is sending out the DPS to patrol the border?” Arpaio wonders. “It think it’s all politics. Maybe they think Perry is going to run for President again.”
Arpaio also believes that Johnson should have visited the border sooner.
“I’m not trying to criticize this guy, but it’s a little kind of late,” says Arpaio. “And the question I would ask him is why you coming now? What happened all of a sudden? Is it because the media started talking about it? Is it because the people are angry?”
We reached out to Secretary Jeh Johnson for comment, and his office referred us to the following remarks about the situation along the border he made during testimony on June 11 before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
From 2011, there were approximately 6,000 that year. This year, there will be multiples of that. This correlates with an overall rise in illegal migration into the Rio Grande Valley Sector, principally from what we referred to as third country nationals. Those from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, who are approximately three quarters of that population.
To meet this surge, we’ve had to surge resources that are normally dedicated to things such as border security. I saw this situation vividly myself, on May 11th, when I visited McAllen Station Processing Center. It happened to be Sunday, Mother’s Day. I approached a 10 year old girl, and asked her, “Where’s your mother?” And she told me, “I don’t have a mother. I’m looking for my father in the United States.” I returned to Washington the next day, determined to do something about the situation.
Undeniably, there is a problem of humanitarian proportions in the Rio Grande Valley Sector that we must deal with. So, here is what we’re doing about it. Number one, on Monday, May 12, I declared a Level Four Condition of Readiness within the Department of Homeland Security, which is, essentially, a determination that the capacity of CBP and ICE to deal with the situation is — is — is full, and we need other resources of DHS. I appointed the Deputy Chief of the Border Patrol to be the DHS coordinator of that effort for a DHS wide response to this situation.
He’s just checking to see if his Escort money was well spent
“I would wish that this would have been done prior to all of this action so that there had been some advance knowledge of all of these actions passed onto local governments rather than — here it is folks,” says Reay
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but that’s no fun...
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
Appointed by Obama because Detroit couldn’t afford a Court Jester.
Arpaio, like Reay, thinks that Johnson’s visit has been timed with the announcement of a recent security surge along the Texas-Mexico border.
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Ya think ???
Arpaio also believes that Johnson should have visited the border sooner.
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I thought he had the way he testified to the senate committee the other day...
But, you know what? I don't care anymore.. Jeh, GO TO HELL. YOU STINK. YOU SUCK.
I don’t have a whole lot of faith in Perry. Texas State Troopers can’t do much. I’m afraid what he’s going to do is overload the state child protective services.
Another affirmative action hire who gets a huge tax-payer funded paycheck for doing a lousy job. We’re sick to death of incompetents ruining this country.
Wait - has Obama heard about this situation on the border?
Are any of the newspapers he likes to read covering the story?
No one with the name “JEH” should be put in charge of anything. I wouldn’t want “MIRACLE WHIP” in charge either.
Would have been there sooner but was caught up on His Arrogance’s fly.
Bull hockey.....how about our tax paid public servants do something in "our" best interests for a change?
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The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers asserted: "This is not a humanitarian crisis. It is a predictable, orchestrated and contrived assault on the compassionate side of Americans by her political leaders that knowingly puts minor illegal alien children at risk for purely political purposes."
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Vote crazed Democrats---desperate over losing seats in 2014---are conniving to get taxpayers to buy them these illegal votes----the Dummycrats are requesting $2 billion tax dollars (for starters) to subsidize the swarm at the border.
Dummycrats are using the "Clinton vote-trading formula---let so may illegals in--get so many votes."
Joe Biden has been thoroughly briefed by the DNC: Speaking earlier to the National Association of Manufacturers, Biden called for a "constant, unrelenting stream' of new immigrants — not dribbling (but) significant flows," The Hill reported....
TRANSLATION FROM DUMMYCRAP BAFFLE-GAB: "let 'em pour in to get the votes we need---and extort taxpayers to subsidize the vote-getting scheme."
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ALIPAC.COM---- Congress toll-free numbers:
Flood the Congress w/ Phone calls--"we will not subsidize Democrat vote-buying schemes. No tax dollars for illegals."
1-800-828-0498 1-800-459-1887 1-800-614-2803 1-866-340-9281 1-866-338-1015 1-866-220-0044
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How did young children w/out food or water or adult
supervision walk thousands of miles through treacherous
jungles and drug cartel territory?
How did they know the way to the US border?
Of course, they had plenty of help for the trek---
financed w/ our tax dollars---thanks to Jeh Johnson
and Team Obama suckups.
Registering new Democrats at the US Customs
and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center.
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