Posted on 07/12/2014 9:40:22 AM PDT by kristinn
Carroll County officials swiftly voiced opposition Friday to news that the federal government is eyeing a former military property near Westminster as a potential shelter for immigrant children — underscoring the challenge the Obama administration faces as it tries to manage a surge of new arrivals.
A day after federal officials notified local leaders it would conduct a preliminary assessment of the vacant Army Reserve Center, the Carroll County Board of Commissioners convened an emergency meeting and, along with Republican Rep. Andy Harris, pledged to resist efforts to use the site.
"Carroll County will not become a repository for Obama's failed immigration policies," said Commissioner Richard Rothschild. He said the idea is "in no way, shape or form approved by the governing body of this county."
The reaction in Carroll County, one of Maryland's Republican strongholds, comes as federal agencies struggle to keep up with an influx of unaccompanied minors — mostly from Central America — who are flooding across the southwestern border.
Some 57,000 children have entered the United States illegally since October, more than double the number than during the same period in the previous year, and officials expect the number to reach 90,000 by the end of September.
By law, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must care for the children until they can be placed with relatives or caretakers in the United States, but the pace of border crossings has strained the agency's ability to handle what the administration and others have described as a humanitarian crisis.
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Thank you for the update - wish we would read that first!
PEOPLE -— ***Read the post #16*****
Is that really a pix of some of the “children”?
Yes, from the Daily Caller article mentioned in the text of the photo. That’s where I got it, from an “authorized reporter” give one of the Soviet-style “guided tours” on thursday. So they were “cleaned up” for this photo.
Something I want people to learn:
First off, our society hardly EVER uses the proper term “child/ren” anymore.
“Kids” is so informal, and emblematic of our how casual and careless our society has become.
Yet notice the terminology in typical news items.
“Kids” when it is nonchalant, or “happy”.
“Children” when your sympathy is elicited.
Even if they are 16. They could be innocent children, or thugs. But the proper, “sweet” term will be used when they want to sway you.
they better not bring them to Chuck County!
Put them in liberal Montgomery County, or even better across the state border in McLean, Virginia, where I have pro-abnesty liberal friends
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