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Obama Prepares To Send National Guard To Texas As Flood Of Immigrant Children Overwhelms US
With America's attention, diverted for the past week to events in the middle east and Ukraine, once again returning to domestic issues, Obama is coming under renewed pressure to address the immigration issues that has gripped the southern states as this will certainly be a hot topic issue during the midterm elections. Which is probably why the president has sent a team to Texas to assess whether a National Guard deployment would help to handle an immigration crisis at the Mexican border having so far resisted Republican calls for such a move, Reuters reports.
The team, made up of officials from the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, departed on Tuesday and will be on the ground through Thursday.
The White House had previously resisted calls from Republicans to deploy the National Guard to fight the onslaught of migrants from Central America because most of the unaccompanied minors and others making the crossing were turning themselves in voluntarily.
But during a meeting with Texas Governor Rick Perry earlier this month, Obama said he was open to ordering the deployment as a temporary solution. He directed Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to send the team of evaluators to assess the situation, one White House official said.
The officials said the federal team would study whether such a role would be useful and make recommendations upon its return.
"There's no foregone conclusion," another official said.
Meanwhile, the underlying problem is getting from bad to worse, and as Bloomberg reported overnight, the flood of children at the border is now overwhelming the US, and as a result "President Obama and congressional Republicans have begun to offer the same simple-sounding solution for dealing with the flood of children crossing the U.S. border alone: Send the kids home."
Since October, more than 57,000 children have arrived by themselves, most from Central America, and 22,000 more have been detained with their parents. While the majority of those caught are teenagers, the greatest increase has been among children younger than 12.
The influx has pushed wait times for immigration cases to a record high of 587 days, or more than a year and a half, according to researchers at the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
As of June 30, fewer than 500 of the 57,000 have been sent home, and more children continue to arrive every day, despite pleas from the Obama administration to Central Americans not to come. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been tapped to coordinate the government’s response. Officials are scrambling to charter planes and buses, sending more agents to the border region, and hunting for more shelter sites and people to run them. Even the U.S. Coast Guard has been brought in to assist with transportation.
“The recent dramatic increase is difficult and distressing on a lot of levels,” CBP Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske said at a congressional hearing in July.
The White House has asked Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency funds, including $1.8 billion to care for the newly arrived children and $879 million to pay for detention, prosecution, and what is officially referred to as “removal.” Much of that would go to private companies and contractors -- a list that runs from American Airlines to medical practitioners and shelter providers.
Ironically, it is the funding for the "care" that is the issue at hand.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents find that most don’t try to run; in fact, they want to be caught. The kids hope that being apprehended will begin another journey, one that will end with permission to remain in the U.S. Children from Mexico can be deported without a formal hearing. But a 2008 law intended to combat sex trafficking says those from nonbordering countries -- such as Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras -- must be allowed to plead their cases before a judge.
Another reason why do they want to be caught: Recall that the government has authorized the spending of $50 million on a "resort For "Young Illegal Immigrants", which is effectively a taxpayer-paid for resort that more than half of Americans would love to be detained in. A resort (which is indicative of the bigger underlying issue) which as we rhetorically asked: 'if immigrants know they can expect such white glove treatment, will it make them more or less likely to cross the border?"
We now know the answer.
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Of course its not true.
These "kids" were literally chauffered here by invitation from the criminal, racist Communists in DC, all with the intention of watering down the dominant American white, Christian demographic.
The more these kids are bused around, fed, clothed, given shelter, probably psych counseling - all that shit either on our dime, or from volunteers who would step over an Iraq vet lying in his own piss to 'make a statement' by helping kids deliberately used as political pawns...
the more will come.
When does it end for the Left? Do they ever give a single fuck about the will of the public - who, I'm guessing, may be okay with a path to citizenship for those here, not criminals, etc - but only after the border is secured.
15 - 20 million illegals - ain't that enough? I know towns totally transformed by *legal* immigration in the past 10/15 years, mainly India and China. They're fine folks but... this isn't the 1870s...
And yes - I'd prefer whites remain a majority. I don't think that is "racist" just normal and natural... who wants to be a minority after being a majority?
Can't really complain about the Indian and Chinese immigrants - family people, hard workers, good students, broad brush...
hundreds of thousands of unskilled spanish speakers joining tens of millions of their brethren in cities and the southwest - how the fuck is that good for the US? When will those countries get their shit together if they can send all their excess peasantry to el norte?
Maybe if states started resettling these people, and they will be increasignly classified as "asylum" seekers I'll wager..harder to deport...easier to spread around the country like deliberate viral vectors... but if the states settled them in rich towns... instead of always in poor and working class areas... then you'd see a change.
I have no problem with the hispanic culture or hispanic people ... they are hard working, loving, friendly, caring and family oriented ... but the race-baiters, xenophobes, La Raza, and misguided Liberals, for political purposes, whip class envy, division, and claims of victimhood everyone loses.
The National Guard troops won’t be able to arrest immigrants, carry NO AMMUNITION, and are, in effect, helpless to do ANYTHING in a border control scenario. This is WINDOW DRESSING for the white boob-tube watchers who will think, "Wow something is being done, now I can get that Kim Kardashian app and relax"
LETTING IN IMMIGRANTS = LETTING IN YOUR FUTURE RULERS.
Robert Putnam observed that people in multiracial societies are distrustful not only of other racial and ethnic groups, but also members of their own race or ethnicity.[Robert Putnam: Diversity Is Our Destruction, By Patrick J. Buchanan, August 09, 2007]
Great book and yes, guardsmen on the border are going to do little more than pick their asses and collect double paychecks (from the state and from their civilian jobs that they are absent from).
Plus fantastic overtime for babysitting.
Even the UN reports violent crime rates triple in 1 year in countries having diverse immigration above 3-5% of the population foisted upon them by corporate profiteers, varying relative to the size of the native population.
Western Civilization is crumbling fast. Read "Tha Camp of the Saints."
REMEMBER THE "ALA MODE"!
"Davy.....Davy Crockett....King of the Wild Frontier"
This is just like a myriad of problems that could be solved if we lived by a rule of law. We do not enforce the laws we have, we do not discipline our children, we take money from some to give to others, we discourage doing right, and encourage law breaking
Ever increasing dosages of Round-up will not keep people disease-free and well-fed, any more than dictatorial militarism will keep people secure from violence.
There is such a reality as blowback, whether environmental or social. Killing off the birds, amphibians, fish, and insects that eat mosquitoes in order to kill off mosquitoes hardly ends the problem.
CAFO meat and Monsanto plants will breed disease, old and new. So long as people over-populate, pollute, and live in their own unhealthy CAFO conditions, the problems will persist despite the band-aids put over the latest symptoms.
Fantasies about more and more militarized policing hermetically sealing borders and killing off all perceived "threats" from having other humans and life forms on the planet is a fantasy, and a diabolic one at that. Perverted phobias of illness, death, and other humans have been nurtured and then followed with deluded promises of compartmentalized safety to be provided by ever increasing pesticides, herbicides, and homicides.
The mindset needs to be changed, and it will not come about easily. The popularized aversion to link and connect militarism and disease, refugees and drug wars, displaced persons and globalized trade, poisons and famines, environmental destruction and self-serving oligarchies ... is what needs change foremost.
Most Americans are uneducated and brainwashed stupid.
Treasonous “open border” secret trade agreements of the North American Union is nothing new, the plan has been on the books, funded and underway for the last 13 years. The target of “open border” illegal immigration is to destroy our American Sovereignty and American Independence with government and NGO funded and orchestrated attacks on our borders with the use of illegal immigrants. The second objective is to create civil unrest and chaos which the criminals in Washington specialize in. The war criminals in Washington are bringing the “hot” war home,
I know most Americans cannot believe that the attack on 9/11/01 was an “inside Job” that orchestrated us into national debt with “terrorist wars” for the last 13 years. They cannot believe that our Representative Republic, constitutional democracy (government of, for and by the People) has been purposely destroyed and replaced with a totalitarian fascist police state.
Americans cannot believe that our Free Enterprise System of capitalism (free from corporate monopoly) and “Fair Trade” has been destroyed by “Free Market” monopoly corporatism and “Free Trade” (multinational corporate monopolies are free to steal what ever they want, from whom ever they want, and do it legally).
Americans cannot believe that Washington would purposelessly bankrupt the USA. Debt is Wealth, they have been brainwashed to believe, --as we go underwater.
Mission Accomplished! Bush/Obama/banksters and crew!!!!
Our democracy is gone, our Free Enterprise System of capitalism is gone. We are bankrupt! The grand ole United States of America, like Greece, Portugal and others is going into receivership of the BIS and the IMF (same criminal banksters). At that point, we are no longer an independent and sovereign nation and you and your children, as citizens, are legal debt slaves to the global central banksters.
The illegal immigration attack coincides with the UN Agenda 21st. Century attack and the North American Union attack that are sponsored by the same criminal banksters.
In efforts to expedite IN processing of MS-13, I mean un accompanied children age 1 to 31 years of age. Thank you Barry for helping Border Patrol do the opposite of their job description FASTER.
We have $17.6T in national debt. Here it is. The USA is increasing the national debt at neck breaking speed. Up pops Janet Yellen saying that she might be forced to increase interest rates. Up pops the BRICS who are developing a competitive currency to the US dollar. An increase in interest rates and/or a movement away from the dollar will absolutely devastate this country. The national debt will skyrocket. There will be fewer and fewer buyers for our bonds. Bingo.....the national fabric will be ripped to shreads and social and civil unrest will tear apart our nation.
The children currently crossing the border realize the weakness in the US leadership. They know they're not going to be sent back. America emotion is being driven by a liberal media. When the dollar collapses, and America starts paying $9.00 for a gallon of gas, they'll suddenly realize that the gig is up. There is no money folks...how long can this charade continue? When the dollar dies, those kids crossing the border will find that Guatelema wasn't such a bad place.
My point?.....We lack the fortitude as citizens (along with national leaders) to accept a reduction in our standard of living. An inevitable rapid decline is not in question.
We have $17.6T in national debt. Here it is. The USA is increasing the national debt at neck breaking speed. Up pops Janet Yellen saying that she might be forced to increase interest rates. Up pops the BRICS who are developing a competitive currency to the US dollar. An increase in interest rates and/or a movement away from the dollar will absolutely devastate this country. The national debt will skyrocket. There will be fewer and fewer buyers for our bonds. Bingo.....the national fabric will be ripped to shreads and social and civil unrest will tear apart our nation.
The children currently crossing the border realize the weakness in the US leadership. They know they're not going to be sent back. America emotion is being driven by a liberal media. When the dollar collapses, and America starts paying $9.00 for a gallon of gas, they'll suddenly realize that the gig is up. There is no money folks...how long can this charade continue? When the dollar dies, those kids crossing the border will find that Guatelema wasn't such a bad place.
My point?.....We lack the fortitude as citizens (along with national leaders) to accept a reduction in our standard of living. An inevitable rapid decline is not in question.
Some of us grownups have been advocating for decades that we need to start taking our medicine sooner rather than later.
That begins with, but is not limited to, at least a halving of government, including related money parties such as BigEducation, at ALL levels.
Wow, Golf Boy jumping to action!
5 years late cock smoker!!!
Blow back bitches. ALL these refugees are fleeing civil wars, mass killings, and abject poverty caused DIRECTLY by US foreign policy, including shitty 'free-trade' deals and the endless war-on-drugs (inc.).