U.S. Prepares to House Up to 20,000 Migrants on Military Bases

NY Times ^ | June 22, 2018 | Michael D. Shear, Helene Cooper and Katie Benner

[Innovative]

The United States is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four American military bases, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as federal officials struggled to carry out President Trump’s order to keep immigrant families together after they are apprehended at the border.

The 20,000 beds at bases in Texas and Arkansas would house “unaccompanied alien children,” said a Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. Michael Andrews, although other federal agencies provided conflicting explanations about how the shelters would be used and who would be housed there. There were reports of widespread confusion on the border.

[Innovative]

Sounds extremely stupid to me.

Normally, I think you need security clearance just to get onto the base.

They could do serious damage there.

[bgill]

Those numbers are proof ICE isn’t doing their job.

[Dominic01]

Take them to their families, deport. What’s so hard about that? Why waste a tax payers dime?

[Paladin2]

Have Sheriff Joe build some camps South of The Wall.

[Paladin2]

Make Mexico pay.

[CivilWarBrewing]

SEND MEXICO THE BILL, or else this is stupid.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Normally, I think you need security clearance just to get onto the base. "

I would guess that these are either mothballed bases, or mothballed sections of bases that can be isolated. The military has been consolidating base facilities for years.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

They should take families with children to each MSM home and drop them off along with the notification of the court date to ensure the family shows up at their hearing.

[DoughtyOne]

If people present to the border and request asylum, we can’t just send them back.

This is another dumb ass situation Congress has gotten us into, while concentrating on what Leftists think are insults.

[humbleexpert]

There are more than 500,000 homeless people in America, many of them children.

Why aren’t THEY also given shelter on U.S. military bases?

If it’s an outrage that illegal-immigrant children are being separated from their parents, isn’t it an even greater outrage that law-abiding Americans are being separated from their tax dollars to feed, house, and pamper non-American children while American children are being left out on the streets?

[Syncro]

“If people present to the border and request asylum, we can’t just send them back.”

People seeking asylum are supposed to do so in the first country they cross the border of.

They should be turned back into Mexico.

Border patrol should print out Mexican applications for asylum and send them back over the border with the applications.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

If people present to the border and request asylum, we can’t just send them back.

Why can't they wait for their hearing outside the US (far away from our borders)? Then they couln't just disappear inside the USA. If they stay anywhere inside our borders, some judge is going to order them released. If they were staying far outside the US, and didn't show up for the amnesty hearing, no problem.

[sergeantdave]

Dump the kiddies in the Hamptons and Alexandria. About 500,000 is a good start.

[Lurker]

“If people present to the border and request asylum, we can’t just send them back.”

We can do whatever the **** we want.

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[frank ballenger]

One thing we must get on talk radio, websites, and to all acquaintances and neighbors:
It wastes a LOT of txax payer money to deal with these illegals. Why should WE pay for little lprop brats’ medical operations and rehab and therapy and counselling and drug costs? Why whould the pregnant illegals have tens of thousands in maternity related hospital costs come out of OUR budgets? Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security will suffer cuts to pay for millions of dollars to aliens (including enforcement, trials, prison, deportation,their welfare money and medical care).

A good GOP strategy: HOW MANY ILLEGALS CAN YOU AFFORD TO SUPPORT ON YOUR FAMILY BUDGET?

Show one in an ad : Manuel and his three children cost $92,301 last year. He doesn’t feel like learning English or getting a job and he may need a knee this year. Can your family budget afford that for him?

By the way, the genuine Boston Bomber brothers’ and family cost over $328,000 in entitlements from US taxpayers before the bombing that cause amputations and maiming. Expensive little sh-ts, weren’t they.

[technically right]

Sure we can. Just do it. Who’s gonna stop us, the UN?

[technically right]

Sure we can. Just do it. Who’s gonna stop us, the UN?

[PapaBear3625]

Bigger issue: the media will spin this into

"Kids are being put into concentration camps!"

[Sasparilla]

...Normally, I think you need security clearance just to get onto the base.

They could do serious damage there...

High security areas can be quickly set up on a military base.

[BeauBo]

It has been done many times before. Lackland AFB was used by Obama during his surge, Clinton sent the Mariel boatlift immigrants to Ft. Chaffee, AK.

Asylum, and the use of children as free passes for immigration, exploded in a coordinated manner in early 2013, shortly after Obama was re-elected. Shortly thereafter, the same techniques exploded on a mass scale in Europe.

It was obviously planned, and managed.

The migrants have not only been coached, they have been recruited and supported by Leftist "charitable" organizations, which often get most of their resources from the public treasuries of Governments, and traffickers. Not a spontaneous development.