Posted on 07/15/2014 5:09:52 PM PDT by kristinn
After Criticizing White House Over Unaccompanied Minors, Martin O'Malley Said Don't Send Them to Maryland Site
After his strong criticism of the Obama administration's plans to return thousands of young undocumented migrants back to Central America, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley asked a top White House official that the children not be sent to a site that was under consideration in his home state, sources familiar with the conversation said.
"He privately said 'please don't send these kids to Western Maryland,'" a Democratic source told CNN. The heated discussion between O'Malley and White House domestic policy adviser Cecilia Munoz occurred during a phone call late Friday evening, sources familiar with the conversation added.
A potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, O'Malley surprised some in his party when he sharply criticized a White House proposal to give new legal authorities to the Department of Homeland Security to expedite the deportation of the unaccompanied minors and their families.
“We are not a country that should turn children away and send them back to certain death,” O’Malley said last week at a National Governors Association meeting in Nashville.
Instead, the governor urged the administration to show compassion toward the children, describing some of the facilities where the young detainees are being kept as "kennels."
“Through all of the great world religions we are told that hospitality to strangers is an essential human dignity,” O’Malley said.
Hours after making those remarks, O'Malley expressed concerns to Munoz about a proposal under consideration by the Department of Health and Human Services to convert a former Army Reserve Center in Westminster, Maryland to house the children.
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“please don’t send these kids to Western Maryland”
Yeah.
Don’t do that.
Dump ‘em all in Bawlmer.
Let’s see how that works out.
When they saw you and your snakes and your dogs they would turn tail and head back to Mexico...
Or, bawty-more.
Nobody’d know the difference between them and an average Baltimore pavement monkey....
Or *eat* them.
Most of these “children” are seriously bad ass ‘bangers.
Since they both loathe each other, I can’t see the downside.
That’s true, that would be a danger. Mm mm good, snake!
Good thing “mom” is armed and crazy.
In a week we’ll read a story about some be-tattooed yoof that got shot breaking into a snake cage to get a snack.
So now we know who's been calling up and threatening the Rat Congressmen who're bucking the Obama regime on this.
Considering that the electorate was dumb enough to send 0 back to the WH in 2012, if Owe’Malley gets the nom, there is a good chance he will become Prez.
Considering that the electorate was dumb enough to send 0 back to the WH in 2012, if Owe’Malley gets the nom, there is a good chance he will become Prez.
There was a now-abandoned plan to house some of them at a facility in Westminster.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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