Posted on 07/09/2014 6:53:17 AM PDT by Welchie25
From the head of the U.S. agency in charge of the welfare of more than 50,000 Central American children who have been apprehended at the Mexican border, to the Honduran cardinal who heads the international Catholic relief agency, Caritas, the message was clear, those minors are as much refugees as the people fleeing upheaval in Syria or South Sudan.
“How are these children different from refugees from Sudan” or other war-torn countries, asked Eskinder Negash, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, known as ORR, in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Regardless of whether they have family here, they are refugees,” he said July 8.
By virtue of his position, Negash personally is legally responsible for the welfare of approximately 50,000 minors in ORR custody as arrangements are sought for them to be placed with relatives or in foster care while deportation is pursued.
Speakers at the 2014 National Migration Conference and in interviews with Catholic News Service said broad discussions about migration issues worldwide inevitably led to the recent surge of children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador across the U.S. border.
From an average of 6,000 or 7,000 such minors a year as recently as a few years ago, by mid-June, Homeland Security had apprehended more than 52,000 such children in this fiscal year. That has created a crisis for the Border Patrol, which first encounters them, and for ORR, which must find places to safely care for them.
Negash drew gasps from the audience when he explained that his responsibility for ORR’s charges includes personally approving health care decisions, such as how to treat an 11-year-old girl who’s pregnant, or another pregnant teen, who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Minors who appear at the Border should be thought of as apparitions.
When was the last time a 4 year old child in the US walk across the US to get to Disneyworld?
You can “think” of them as being “refugees” all you want but the truth is that they are still freeloader invaders who are coming here to take a swing at the “big piñata”.
They’re human shields for the White House’s agenda.
There is no provision in US law for ECONOMIC Refugees.
We ship back every illegal Haitian who arrives by boat in Florida.
Why are we treating these future Democrat voters differently?
Eskinder Negash? What the hell is an Eskinder Negash?
>> They’re human shields for the White House’s agenda.
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
These “minors” are Obama’s Trojan Horse to achieve his amnesty (read:New Democrats) ambitions.
WHO IS JOHN GALT?
... Ya ... this is exactly what the administration was waiting for and has planned since day one of this truly manufactured crisis. .... A few weeks ago I predicted that the verbage of this situation would be magically transformed from the term "Illegal Immigrant or Migrant Children" to the term "Young Refugees" in what would become a successful effort to demonize any verbage against this massive influx of Future Democrat voters and force Republicans into a defensive corner.
.... Just think about it ... To even think of sending these poor Child refugees back to their horrid and violent meat grinder countries of origins will be a certain death sentence for these poor innocent defenseless children. (At least that is the narrative that will be verbally vomited out of the mouths of every Democrat and Immigration reform activist and supporter.)
.... In short .... The Republicans and the Tea Party will be portrayed as wanting to literally ... Kill the Children .... and Send them to their DEATH ..... Heck ..... Do the Republicans and Tea Party even have even a tiny loving compassionate bone in their collective evil bodies?
.....Good luck on trying to defend against that one folks.
Has to be one of the BIGGEST LIES of the moment.
Minors at the border should be seen as criminal alien invaders, to be deported forthwith.
It’s the bishops that have gone bonkers.
Why stop at thinking of them as “refugees” ... If we’re going to make up bullshit let’s go all the way. Why not think of them as “Gods to worship”? Or Unicorns in Flight?
First, they’re NOT refugees. They’re kids... and they should be sent back to their parents. If their parents could come up with the thousands of dollars to take to pay drug cartels to bring them to our border, they can damn sure afford the plane ticket home.
“... they’re kids.. and they should be sent back to their parents..”
Totally agree. The US send back Elias Gonzalez (I probably spelled that incorrectly) to Cuba. A child cannot be adopted if a parent exists or the child is removed from a parent that still claims parentage. These kids will go where? Foster care? Will they grow up in a kiddie Gitmo? This whole thing stinks to high heaven IMHO.
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