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Senate panel seeks $2.28 billion to aid immigrant children
Reuters ^ | June 10 2014 | Richard Cowan

Posted on 06/10/2014 12:09:56 PM PDT by PoloSec

(Reuters) - A Senate panel, responding to what President Barack Obama calls an "urgent humanitarian situation," on Tuesday advanced legislation significantly increasing funds to handle a surge of foreign children entering the United States illegally.

Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, included up to $2.28 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services to feed and shelter the estimated 130,000 minors expected to arrive in the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1.

That is up from the $868 million that Congress urgently provided this year to handle an estimated 60,000 undocumented children who will leave their homes in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and other countries and travel to the United States without their parents or other relatives.

A Senate aide familiar with the issue told Reuters appropriators also intend to have a "significant" increase in funds for the Department of Homeland Security next year. That agency is initially in charge of the unaccompanied minors when they are caught by federal agents, most often at the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas by the Mexican border.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; cantorkidsact; childillegals; dreamact; ericcantor; illegalsinvasion; kidsact; massamnesty
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1 posted on 06/10/2014 12:09:56 PM PDT by PoloSec
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To: PoloSec

Paging Eric Cantor...


2 posted on 06/10/2014 12:12:13 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: PoloSec

Double or nothing.....$2.28B to build the fence, then $2.28B for the poor chirens.


3 posted on 06/10/2014 12:12:18 PM PDT by Phinneous
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To: jimbo123

Take it out of the King and Queen’s vacation fund.


4 posted on 06/10/2014 12:14:45 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: PoloSec

$2.28 billion / 130,000 illegals = $17,500 per illegal from U.S. taxpayers. Deport them now!


5 posted on 06/10/2014 12:17:13 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: PoloSec

Obama’s “Children’s Crusade” at the Broder...

The word “Crusade” is seen with disdain in this PC world, and the term “Children’s Crusade” is cursed as a horrible term in Hiostory Academia...

What is the “Manufactured Crisis” except for another “Children’s Crusade”....

Barry O’Bama’s “Children’s Crusade”....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade

[ The Children’s Crusade is the name given to a disastrous Crusade by European Christians to expel Muslims from the Holy Land said to have taken place in 1212. The traditional narrative is probably conflated from some factual and mythical notions of the period including visions by a French or German boy, an intention to peacefully convert Muslims in the Holy Land to Christianity, bands of children marching to Italy, and children being sold into slavery. ]

Children on their way to the border have been sold into sex slavery....

Obama is literally creating a “Children’s Crusade” at our southern border....


6 posted on 06/10/2014 12:18:52 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: PoloSec

2,280,000,000 / 130,000 = 17,538.46

$17,500 per illegal alien minor?


7 posted on 06/10/2014 12:19:28 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: jimbo123

Beat me to it!

At $17,500 per illegal alien minor this is a jobs program for the bureaucracy.


8 posted on 06/10/2014 12:21:16 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: PoloSec

Screw the bastard illegals, whatever their age. If they are going blow 2.8 bil. then spend it helping actual citizens.

I don’t care about illegal spawn who are being brought in to be anchors for their families. Let them all die, better them than american citizens and that’s what is coming with them; enough diversity of diseases to keep an army of epidemiologists and doctors busy for years.


9 posted on 06/10/2014 12:22:16 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: PoloSec

Sounds like a great opportunity for a filibuster!


10 posted on 06/10/2014 12:22:23 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: PoloSec

“Hey “O”, you want money?” “Open up your own damn wallet and not the wallets of we, the taxpayers!”

After all, you’re the idiot that encouraged this refugee mess by not enforcing federal laws. In other words, you have violated your oath and should be apprehended and arrested.

I am so sick of this SHIT.....


11 posted on 06/10/2014 12:22:38 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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If I were Governor of AZ., I’d sign an EO demanding the mobilization of all available school buses (and any other buses) statewide (school’s out right?). I’d then reach out to the citizens of the state asking for volunteers (or, pay them if need be) to load these refugees onto these buses and drive them to the steps of DC and drop them off with signs that read, “we are Obama’s children!”

Simple…..


12 posted on 06/10/2014 12:25:23 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: PoloSec

Might as well float a Chinese loan for ten times that figure because they will want to have their parents, tios, tios, older hermanos y hermanas, shirt-tail relatives, amigos, and so forth and so on. Eventually they’re all going to have to be allowed because it’s inhumane—no, monstrous!—to separate familias. Si?

And it’s not fair to keep adults out if we’re making an exception for ninos ... so why don’t we start running Grayhounds, Trailways and major airlines down Old Mexico way 24/7, 54 weeks a year?
OK, so this will require a few trillion or more, and that’s just getting them over here and settled.

Then the real bills start piling up—housing, feeding, medicating half of Mexico and Central America: the `three-hots-and-a-cot’ they were told they were entitled to once they got a foothold because the gringos are estupido that way. Just plumb loco in la cabeza, entiendo?

But it’s for the children, right? So it’s all good. No?
That’s right. Same/same both languages, but our critters still haven’t learned how to say it in Spanish.


13 posted on 06/10/2014 12:25:25 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: PoloSec

As our Veterans die in VA Hospitals because they are on an endless waiting list.


14 posted on 06/10/2014 12:25:25 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Phinneous
That would buy a lot of buses to send them HOME!
15 posted on 06/10/2014 12:27:21 PM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: PoloSec

It should come from the pensions of the EXEMPT.

By Constitutional amendment, if necessary.


16 posted on 06/10/2014 12:33:30 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: RJS1950

We always have to reduce these things down to the sandbox level so we can correctly define them.

This situation is the same as your neighbor’s kids trying to get into your yard and house. So the government swoops in at the picket fence and gives the kids money. Who profits? The parents don’t need to care for their children any more, so they do, and the kids profit. This is all happening inside YOUR FENCE so you lose, and since you pay taxes, you lose again.

We need to understand freedom a bit better. Freedom includes the FREEDOM TO FAIL, and also THE FREEDOM TO FAIL YOUR CHILDREN.

No one wants children to die. But children die all over the planet. If people want to save children, go visit them and see what you can do to save them there and help that land care for their children from now forward, and leave.

Stop feeling sorry for illegals. They should stay where they are, and we need to make immigration for the workers and families we CAN sustain more logical. Right now we have strict laws that are not being enforced. It’s so screwed up.


17 posted on 06/10/2014 12:36:16 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: PoloSec

Here’s some straight talk about the underaged illegal alien infestation.

The Obama administration is calling this termendous influx of underage illegal alien children at our southern border a humanitarian issue. Something like 10-12,000 per month. They are holding over 80,000. They wan over two billion US tax dollars to house them and move them further inland. They say these kids are coming from Honduras, Guatemala, El Savladro, etc. and they have no parents,... no food, now water.

Really?

Then just how on earth did they get from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, etc. to the US southern border thewn? Hmmm?

Folks, they are lieing...again! Someone has orchestrated this and planned it and brought those children there.

I say put them on cargo ships and feed them while en route, but ship them back to where they came from and leave them in the country of origin.

At the same time DEMAND ANSWERS as to how this is occuring. Then run Obama and his administration of vipers out of office...as soon as possible.


18 posted on 06/10/2014 12:36:36 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: PoloSec

Either Mexico comes for their kids or we invade a section and use it as a holding pen for their citizens.


19 posted on 06/10/2014 12:40:02 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: PoloSec

Why are children coming across the border alone? This just started so our Government has to be behind this!


20 posted on 06/10/2014 12:43:45 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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