He'll send them home alright. He's too afraid to even visit them with a full SS security team!
Posted on 07/10/2014 7:10:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama has asked Congress for billions of dollars to address a crisis that is in part the product of his own policies — policies he would like to expand, in fact.
Yes, there are fundamental forces pushing Central Americans, including a startling number of unaccompanied children, to try to cross our borders illegally. But Obama’s non-enforcement of our immigration laws, his amnesty for illegal-alien children, and his vigorous push for immigration reform with a much broader amnesty as its central element have played a big role in creating our current crisis.
So it’s hardly surprising that his proposal supposedly meant to fix the problem would in fact do no such thing. House Republicans should reject the president’s request flat-out and pass an entirely different bill, aimed at stemming the tide of illegal immigration rather than reinforcing a system that contributed to this crisis. One branch of government, which controls the purse strings, needs to show it’s serious about this problem. The White House is asking for $3.7 billion in emergency funding for the problem, when there isn’t really a funding emergency: Most of the costs of the surge have been placed on HHS, which deals with housing child detainees and happens to be the second largest cabinet department. It, like the other federal agencies involved, has plenty of funds to deal with the crisis for now.
There are numerous policies Americans would support that don’t cost very much and would seriously address illegal immigration; essentially none of them are in the president’s funding request. His priorities are clear enough: There’s noticeably more money allocated to housing and caring for illegal immigrants here than to prosecuting and removing them.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans have been slow to suggest their own ideas and don’t have a great track record on this issue. Their efforts to beef up the anti-illegal-immigration elements of the Senate’s Gang of Eight bill, epitomized by the Corker-Hoeven border-security amendment, have generally involved lots of spending and few useful policy changes.
Policies that could reduce future illegal immigration abound. Republicans should pass more funding for the apprehension and deportation of illegal immigrants in the interior of the country, a priority that this president especially has neglected, and push for building new detention facilities near the border and in the interior to hold, rather than catch-and-release, illegal immigrants until they can get a hearing. The mandatory use of E-Verify, suggested by Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), would also help change the fundamental economic incentives that draw people here illegally. None of these policies should be a tough sale to a public that’s much more concerned about illegal immigration than the president is.
There are a couple of good ideas in the president’s request. He proposes a small amount of funding for more immigration judges, which would help reduce the deportation backlog (though unfortunately, and potentially illegally, it’s accompanied by money to pay for illegal aliens’ legal defense). There’s also a modest amount of money for programs to break up smuggling networks in Central America that bring illegals here. Such programs can be tremendously cost-effective and deserve more funding. But any bill the House passes to fund these measures should be aimed at reorienting our immigration-enforcement policies to prevent the president from abusing the system as he has.
Obama has backed off from changing the Wilberforce Act of 2008 so that authorities won’t be prevented from deporting illegally arrived children. The Wilberforce Act was an effort by a Democratic Congress to address human trafficking — a serious problem — that has had the unintended effect of pushing the Border Patrol to hand over unaccompanied minors to HHS for more or less permanent resettlement. Such children should be subjected to expedited removal by law enforcement; the law makes this harder for a large number of them at the moment.
Fixing this, like providing more funding for various parts of the enforcement bureaucracy, is necessary but not sufficient. President Obama, ever solicitous of his far-left base and ethnic pressure groups, is loath to enforce our immigration laws. The problems his policies have created are something he will not face (quite literally: He refuses to visit the border). Congress must try to get the law enforced and prevent him from continuing his preferred policies. It’s the only way to solve the current crisis and start reducing the flow of illegal immigration.
Anybody who believes that any more than a fraction of these “children” will be sent home pegs the naive meter off-scale high.
Never let an excuse for another Porkulus go to waste.
Bet 90% are Mexicans.
HHS has already said that 90% will remain here...because they never show up for their hearing.
The headline says it all, as far as expectations go AFTER the “send them home” part.
Doubtful that they will be sent home.
It has been obvious for quite some time that Obama intends to bankrupt America to take it off the world stage.
He'll send them home alright. He's too afraid to even visit them with a full SS security team!
Bet you're wrong. I bet 10% are jihadis of one stripe or another, maybe 90% of the remainder are Mexicans...
RE: Bet 90% are Mexicans.
Wasn’t it reported that most of them are from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador?
If you like your plan you can keep your plan... period
anyone that believes this government is a fool
PS Im convinced Boehner and Obama are lovers...
“A. Introduction
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has a continuing and mission critical responsibility for accepting custody of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) from U.S. Border Patrol and other Federal agencies and transporting these juveniles to Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters located throughout the continental United States. ICE is seeking the services of a responsible vendor that shares the philosophy of treating all UAC with dignity and respect, while adhering to standard operating procedures and policies that allow for an effective, efficient, and incident free transport. The Contractor shall provide unarmed escort staff, including management, supervision, manpower, training, certifications, licenses, drug testing, equipment, and supplies necessary to provide on-demand escort services for non-criminal/non-delinquent unaccompanied alien children ages infant to 17 years of age, seven (7) days a week, 365 days a year. Transport will be required for either category of UAC or individual juveniles, to include both male and female juveniles. There will be approximately 65,000 UAC in total: 25% local ground transport, 25% via ICE charter and 50% via commercial air. Escort services include, but are not limited to, assisting with: transferring physical custody of UAC from DHS to Health and Human Services (HHS) care via ground or air methods of transportation (charter or commercial carrier), property inventory, providing juveniles with meals, drafting reports, generating transport documents, maintaining/stocking daily supplies, providing and issuing clothing as needed, coordinating with DHS and HHS staff, travel coordination, limited stationary guard services to accommodate for trip disruptions due to inclement weather, faulty equipment, or other exigent circumstances. In emergency situations, the Contractor shall be called on to provide temporary shelter locations (such as trailers) with shower facilities for juveniles who are pending placement with HHS when bed space is unavailable nationwide for extended periods of time. The Contractor shall provide temporary guard services and other support as necessary during these emergencies.
In addition, the Contractor shall have personnel who are able to communicate with juveniles in their own designated language(s). While this may not require each employee to be fluent in all of the encountered languages, personnel should have access to and knowledge of translation services.”
Is that available as a bumper sticker? I realize placing it on my car would subject me to arrest, but I’d like to have one anyway.
Just heard a Tx representative say that 80% are 16 years and above and male.
Nobama threw out that huge Emergency Request simply to throw fuel on the political fire, as he knew Congress will not approve such a huge waste especially right before the election.
This progressive ploy is not unlike the post Civil War “Reconstruction” forced onto the South by the Union. Reconstruction failed because it was not well thought out and it was more or less just punishment. It failed and caused the ex-slaves, who were supposed to benefit from Reconstruction increased misery in many ways ever since.
How were these kids able to transit Mexico to the US without Mexico interfering? They too have a law against illegals being in their country. This doesn’t pass the smell test.
BINGO. That is the only plausible explanation for banning photos.
Not being a “conspiracy theorist”, I have no doubt that nobama has some coordination with his muslim brothers to infiltrate with the “Chillrin” as an actual subversive invasion.
RE: How were these kids able to transit Mexico to the US without Mexico interfering?
Isn’t the northern part of Mexico a lawless area where drug cartels and human smugglers thrive?
Obama has shown he will not follow the law so, no. I would not vote to give him the money.
Paid flights back home I would consider.
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