The Crisis on the Border

Wall Street Journal ^ | July 11, 2014 | Peggy Noonan

[demshateGod]

What is happening at the southern border is a true and actual crisis. News accounts justly use words like chaos, collapse and breakdown. They feature images of children—toddlers, 4- and 5-year-olds—being shuffled to warehouse holding centers, sleeping crowded at night on what look like pallets, covered only in Mylar blankets. "I never thought we'd have refugee camps in America," said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, "but that's what it's appearing."

All this gives normal people a feeling of besiegement and foreboding. Is a nation without borders a nation? Washington's leaders seem to recognize what's happening as a political problem, not a real problem. That is, they betray no honest alarm. They just sort of stand in clusters and say things.

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Little children looking lost—no one's taking care of them. Older ones settling in the garage, or working a window to the cellar. You call the cops. At first they don't come. Then they come and shout through a bull horn and take some of the kids and put them in a shelter a few blocks away. But more kids keep coming! You call your alderman and he says there's nothing he can do. Then he says wait, we're going to pass a bill and get more money to handle the crisis. You ask, "Does that mean the kids will go home?" He says no, but it may make things feel more orderly. You call the local TV station and they come do a report on your stoop and then they're gone, because really, what can they do, and after a few days it's getting to be an old story.

No one's in charge! No one is taking responsibility. No one who wants to help has authority, and no one with authority is helping.

[demshateGod]

I didn’t see this posted anywhere.

[JimRed]

What they’re NOT showing are the pictures of the 15-16 year old gangbangers who are a goodly number of the invaders.

[Savage Beast]

Jean Respail was a prophet.

[keat]

Before reading this type of article I scan it to see if it (accurately) places all the blame for the crisis on Obama. So I didn’t need to read this one as it doesn’t. You can’t trust the WSJ to report fairly on immigration.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The “4 and 5 year olds” are only a distraction, props, brought along by the invaders to tug on the dumb gringos heartstrings.

[demshateGod]

No, you really should read it.

[demshateGod]

......Or, I should say, it may be worth your time. It definitely blames Obama.

[Uncle Chip]

YEP —

[Ray76]

The “toddlers, 4- and 5-year-olds” are what you are allowed to see. They are PR propaganda.

Fedgov is conducting an invasion of the States.

[Liz]

Spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council for the Laredo, Texas area said that the diversion of so many resources to the border in one area is allowing drug cartels to sneak illegal drugs and weapons across the border undetected.

RAMIFICATIONS OF THE INVASION KICK IN---illegal sex offenders, drug-runners, gang members and terrorists are enrolling in US schools.

NRO reports adult illegals posing as "unaccompanied alien children" are attempting to enroll at Massachusetts public high schools. Some of them had gray hair, said they were 17 years old, and claim to have have no documentation.

School policy is to check w/ families---who identified the graying man enrolling in their school as a 35-year old adult.

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Gray haired men enrolling in schools?

More likely drug lords and drug runners are infiltrating public schools---planning to set up long-term lucrative businesses. You know how that works? Giving kids free samples to get them addicted is part of the cartel business plan.

Graying men posing as high school teens could also be sex traffickers --- lining up nubile kid for their johns..... and the young 'uns for pedophiles who pay big bucks to get ahold of the little darlings.

Anyhow, tolerant and compassionate libbers whining about the "humanitarian crisis" must be OK with that (/snix).

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Town fathers are also in for a shake-up when their carefully drawn budgets are looted by the "little children" and gray-haired high school students enrolling in their schools.

Hugo Chavez taught Boobamba a neat trick---if you don't have the votes to win---you import them from destitute countries. If you promise them billions in remittances they'll gladly empty out their villages.

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY---Central America Border Rush Fueled By Remittances
(extortion racket---US taxpayers to prop up corrupt govts)

......52,000 unaccompanied illegals crossed the south Texas border this year.....as the political debate focused on immigration enforcement, a key economic factor has been lost in the clamor. Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, which are supplying three-quarters of the latest cross-border flood, and are dependent on their diaspora in the US to prop up their own woeful economies.

Immigrants send back billions of dollars to their families. Remittances have risen to 16.5% of El Salvador's GDP, 15.7% of Honduras' and 10% of Guatemala's, according to World Bank data. Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Bolivia rely on remittances for 4.1% to 9.7% of GDP.

But the figure drops precipitously for every other country in Latin America. Mexico, with the largest immigrant population in the U.S. with as many as 13 million people, now relies on remittances for just 2% of GDP.

Migrant remittances to Mexico were $22 billion in 2013, 29% below their 2006 peak. For Colombia, once a locus of drug-war violence, that has turned itself around, remittances are only 1.1% of GDP. Free-market star Chile's figure is 0%.

It's not surprising to see Central American leaders urging the U.S. to let the newest arrivals stay. Those migrants' remittances offer a lifeline to desperately poor countries. While the money goes to families, it helps the broader economy......and ultimately fills government coffers.

A 2008 Pew Research Center survey found that 54% of foreign-born Hispanics send remittances to their home countries, compared to 17% of U.S.-born Hispanics. Undocumented immigrants are believed to send more cash home than either.

Virtually all the cash received by the three remittance outliers is from the U.S. (Guatemala 89%, El Salvador 90%, Honduras 87%).

[stanne]

It’s Peggy noonan. Not wsj. Tho put out by the wsj. I scanned it

Puts the blame on all in authority

A metaphor for what history will do to the Bumster. All in authority who could have should have and would have stopped him but for the lack of not constitutional authority but a particular virtue or the lack of use of a certain hormone

Dinesh claims BO was created, or the environment that allowed him to thrive was created

Two words rick perry

[VerySadAmerican]

Noonan says “Washington’s leaders seem to recognize what’s happening as a political problem, not a real problem.”

Washington’s leaders? She just can’t bring herself to say “Obama”.

[VerySadAmerican]

Then shut my mouth! I read the posted part and PLUS it’s from Peggy Noonan. However, I still think the headline should have blamed Obama.

[VerySadAmerican]

Okay, I read it. I don’t see where she blames Obama. She gives him credit for being smart and “showing he cares”.

[Oldexpat]

After years of experience dealing with the Third and Developing world..I can say with great concern..we haven’t seen anything yet. The word is out. Get your feet dry along the Rio Grande Border and you are home free if you are with children.
No matter what the President and others now say, that is what is happening. Plus we have many different immigrant groups here to shelter and host the ones who make it across. All of the internal enforcement solutions rely on our “due process” and they are swamped, time consuming and costly. Even if we double or triple the judges and legal actions..nothing is going to change.
The only alternative is to get the border under control and turn away those people who arrive there by force if necessary. Amnesty, in fact or effective, means that our laws are not going to be enforced and the world has that message loud and clear.

[demshateGod]

From the article..

“The president of course has rushed to the scene—to go, as always, to fundraisers. This is at the moment a scandal, but why? Clever people say it’s an unforced error. He has to show he cares! He ought to journey to an overwhelmed border area, stand there and point to the middle distance as a local official in a hopefully picturesque hat briefs him. It’s almost touching how much the press wants to see this. But why? Why do they want to see the president enact a degree of alarm he clearly does not feel?”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Precisely right. Those kids were sent here to soften us up so we will accept the complete demolition of the southern border.

[demshateGod]

No she doesn’t! She gives him credit for not doing photo ops showing that he cares because he really doesn’t.

[Liz]

Sen Mark Kirk (R-Ill) expressed concerns about UACs having criminal backgrounds...... but told Americans that the US State Department was unable to provide the information (no surprise Marie and Jen were prolly having another bad hair day). “If any of these individuals has a criminal record in their home country, our government owes it to the American people to facilitate a sharing of records and reassure our nation that these individuals pose no threat,” Kirk said in his written statement.

Victor Davis Hanson's "The Moral Crisis On Our Southern Border" points out that the bulk of the invading hordes are from Central America. (SOURCE: National Review)

Hanson ponders the reasons why, even though Mexico (ironically) has much tougher immigration policies than does the United States, the deluge trekked up through Mexico cartel territory and were not turned away at Mexico's southern border?

Hanson postulates that Mexico passed them on because there was a sub rosa plan to get them over the border into the United States.

<><> What was the mechanics of the deal?

<><> Why did Central American governments empty their village of vulnerable youth without taking any responsibility for their well-being?

<. The sheer numbers traveling thousands of miles through savage drug cartel territory raises suspicions WRT:

<><> callous parents sending children as pawns northward without escort;

<><> parents given guarantees of free passage and eventual citizenship for themselves,

<><> parents making deals to send back remittances once they boarded the lucrative US gravy train,

<><> parents willingly sending children to ride roofs of speeding trains w/out personal hygeine,

<><> parents pressured to put their children at risk w/ cash payments

The possible scenarios are shocking:

<><> hundreds of thousands of parents suddenly acting in concert.

<><> roguish and callous parents willingly let children ride roofs of speeding trains,

<><> young children seized from parents by Central American govt authorities.

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Assuming kids were sent ahead to be tools for their prents immigration to the US, what tracking mechanisms (if any) were put in place so that these parents could eventually find their children? The entire procedure seems so hodge-podge, the possibility of a reunion seems implausible.

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This is de facto abandonment of children by their parents....AND/OR the seizure of the children by corrupt Central American officials. ......demanding criminal prosecution in US courts and in international courts of law.