Posted on 06/28/2014 5:56:01 PM PDT by kristinn
President Obama will ask Congress to provide more than $2 billion in new funds to control the surge of illegal Central American migrants at the South Texas border, and to grant broader powers for immigration officials to speed deportations of children caught crossing without their parents, White House officials said on Saturday.
Mr. Obama will send a letter on Monday to alert Congress that he will seek an emergency appropriation for rapidly expanding border enforcement actions and humanitarian assistance programs to cope with the influx, which includes record numbers of unaccompanied minors and adults bringing children. The officials gave only a general estimate of the amount, saying the White House would send a detailed request for the funds when Congress returned after the Fourth of July recess that began Friday and ends July 7.
The president will also ask Congress to revise existing statutes to give the Homeland Security secretary, Jeh Johnson, new authorities to accelerate the screening and deportation of young unaccompanied migrants who are not from Mexico. Fast-track procedures are already in place to deport young migrants from Mexico because it shares a border with the United States.
Mr. Obama will also ask for tougher penalties for smugglers who bring children and other vulnerable migrants across the border illegally, the officials said.
“This is an urgent humanitarian situation,” Cecilia Muñoz, the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said in a telephone interview on Saturday. “We are being as aggressive as we can be, on both sides of the border,” she said. “We are dealing with smuggling networks that are exploiting people, and with the humanitarian treatment of migrants while also applying the law as appropriate.”
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This is the best lie since he said we would increase offshore drilling on April Fools Day just before the BP
leak in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
He can’t possibly think anyone will believe him.
I have to disagree on this one. I think this was a SERIOUS miscalculation, along the lines of the Bowe Berghdahl mess, where we all were supposed to be celebrating the triumphant return of the POW. except ... oops. In this one, we all were expected to rally around these poor displaced children, except even most of the liberals I know are seeing this as a planned -- and really creepy -- invasion, not a "humanitarian crisis." I'm guessing panic is setting in at the highest of levels. They're probably burning the midnight oil right now trying to figure out how to convince us that they -- and especially Obama -- were "as shocked as anyone about this!"
In pandering to its crazy base, this administration long ago lost its grip on reality. Only the herculean efforts by the media to put a spin on everything Obama does has kept the low information voter from realizing just how demented the gang in the White House truly is.
When his purple lips move, lies emerge.
Obama to Seek Funds to Stem Border Crossings and Speed Deportations
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Buahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Do you really think he will use that appropriation to “deport” illegal aliens ? He will use the money to welcome them even further.
Dear Lord, not one dime more to this corrupt admin.
What ever happened to all that stimulus money?
The billions that the State Dept. ‘lost’?
The American public can’t be THAT stupid, can they?
“When Obama seeks funds for anything it is always about funneling it somewhere else entirely.......like 300 million to help the Syrian terrorists....he should never ever be trusted for any funds he seeks for anything.”
I suspect these funds will be used to house, feed, and school the illegals for a year, and then whoever has the “hot potato” at that point will have to start paying. Obama tried this with funding for teachers and cops, and the smarter locales politely declined; the up-front payment was only for a year or two, then taxpayers would have to bear the cost.
There is nothing the white liberals that control teleprompter boy do that should be trusted.
Nah. Means to an end, to give the DHS more power and more money.
ya give this welfare quota boy a dime for anything and he’ll use it on his liking.
Quit giving this bastard a penny.
No - he will take the money and do something else with it.
Give the $ to border state governors.
Obama! You lie!
Pass the $2 billion allocation. Include the following 2 provisions:
(1) It shall be a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison for any federal official to knowingly fail to enforce any provision of immigration law.
(2) the 5th district federal appeals shall appoint an independent special prosecutor with full authority and resources to prosecute violations of (1)
Don’t trust ANYTHING from Obama. Whatever he does, there are ulterior motives befitting an Alinskyite punk.
Yes....it's the same game plan, as usual, taken straight out of the Cloward-Piven Manufactured Crisis playbook.
Isn't it great that we, the taxpayers, get to fund ALL of these manufactured crises? /s
It's all going according to plan.
Once again Obama is very upset and outraged about it (what he made happen) and won’t stand for it (he will help it happen more)
More Obama BS. He wants the money to take care of the illegals, not deport them or strengthen the border. Another scam for a gullible, ignorant public.
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