Immigration Crisis Meant to Advance North American Union

This is the article that tipped their hand:

"UN wants migrants headed to US designated as refugees" by Alberto Arce and Michael Weissenstein | Associated Press   July 09, 2014

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the United States to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico to accept tens of thousands of people currently ineligible for asylum.

AHA!

Officials with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees say they hope to see movement toward a regional agreement on that status Thursday when migration and interior department representatives from the United States, Mexico, and Central America meet in Nicaragua. The group will discuss updating a 30-year-old declaration regarding the obligations that nations have to aid refugees.

And there you go.

While such a resolution would lack any legal weight, the agency said it believes ‘‘the US and Mexico should recognize that this is a refugee situation, which implies that they shouldn’t be automatically sent to their home countries but rather receive international protection.’’

Most of the people widely considered to be refugees by the international community are fleeing more traditional political or ethnic conflicts like those in Syria or the Sudan. Central Americans would be among the first modern migrants considered refugees because they are fleeing violence and extortion at the hands of criminal gangs.

Central America’s Northern Triangle of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras has become one of the most violent regions on earth in recent years, with swaths of all three countries under the control of drug traffickers and street gangs who rob, rape, and extort ordinary citizens with impunity.

They act like bankers.

Honduras, a primary transit point for US-bound cocaine, has the world’s highest homicide rate for a nation that is not at war. Hondurans who are used to hiding indoors at night have been terrorized anew in recent months by a wave of attacks against churches, schools, and buses.

Honduras since the U.S.-sponsored coup has hardly ever mentioned until now! 

During a recent visit to the United States, President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras said migrants from his country were ‘‘displaced by war,’’ and called on the United States to acknowledge that.

Honduran police routinely are accused of civil rights violations. The AP has reported at least five cases of alleged gang members missing or killed after being taken into police custody in what critics and human rights advocates call death squads engaged in a wave of social cleansing of criminals.

But they are a vital ally in Central America, and thus it is all kept quiet.

Violence by criminal organizations spread after members of California street gangs were deported to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, where they overwhelmed weak and corrupt police forces.

And now those same characters are making their way back.

In El Salvador, the end of a truce between street gangs has led to a steep rise in homicides this year.

Salvadorans heading north through Mexico who were interviewed last month said there also was fear of the ‘‘Sombra Negra,’’ or ‘‘Black Shadow’’ — groups of masked men in civilian clothes who are believed responsible for extrajudicial killings of teens in gang-controlled neighborhoods. The Salvadoran government denies any involvement in death squads, but says it is investigating the reports.

In El Salvador, at least 135,000 people, or 2.1 percent of the population, have been forced to leave their homes, the vast majority due to gang extortion and violence, according to UN figures.

That’s more than twice the percentage displaced by Colombia’s brutal civil war, the UN says.

Also see: Starbucks opens in Colombia

Decide for yourself whether the Globe's Colombia coverage 

Immigration experts in the United States and Central America say the flow of migrants from Honduras and El Salvador is likely to rise as the two countries experience more gang-related violence.

‘‘They are leaving for some reason. Let’s not send them back in a mechanical way, but rather evaluate the reasons they left their country,’’ Fernando Protti, regional representative for the UN refugee agency, said.

YUP!

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Related: A Muslim citizen’s US passport gets him everywhere but home

Obama just granted you independence. Enjoy.

"Quick action on immigrant children is put off; Obama still will seek $2b to deal with border crisis" by Erica Werner | Associated Press   July 08, 2014

WASHINGTON — President Obama has decided to hold off on seeking new legal authority to send unaccompanied migrant children back home faster, congressional sources said Monday.

The move follows criticism from immigration advocates, who said the administration’s planned approach was too harsh.

It was confirmed Monday by two congressional aides who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement.

Obama intends to ask Congress on Tuesday for more than $2 billion in emergency spending to deal with the children who have been arriving by the thousands from Central America.

For now he will not ask Congress to change the law to allow him to send the youths back home faster. White House officials said the president intends to eventually ask for such authority.

Why not just issue an executive order?

Earlier Monday, the White House had said most unaccompanied children arriving at the US-Mexico border are unlikely to qualify for humanitarian relief that would keep them from being sent back to their home countries.

The pointed warning came as the White House finalized a spending request to Congress detailing the additional resources Obama wants in order to hire more immigration judges and open additional detention facilities to deal with the border crisis.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that although the administration will allow the immigration review process to take place, officials so far do not expect many of the children arriving at the border to be able to eventually stay in the United States.

It is unclear how quickly the process will unfold. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged Sunday that such immigration proceedings might face long delays, and he said that the floods of unaccompanied minors crossing the border creates a legal and humanitarian dilemma for the United States.

‘‘Our border is not open to illegal migration, and we are taking a number of steps to address it, including turning people around faster,’’ Johnson said Sunday. 

Not if you want to get out.

I'm always amazed how authority can flame they smell nothing when their hair is on fire.

At the same time, he said, the administration is ‘‘looking at ways to create additional options for dealing with the children in particular, consistent with our laws and our values.’’

Most of the children are from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, where they face spikes in violence and poverty.

Johnson said the US government is trying to send the message that all people who enter the country illegally will face deportation proceedings eventually.

For the almost last time, I am so, so sick of the staged and scripted imagery and illusion promoting the mythical narratives in order to send messages.

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"Obama asks for $4b to deal with migrants; GOP resistance tied to battle on immigration" by MICHAEL D. SHEA R and JEREMY W. PETERS | New York Times   July 09, 2014

WASHINGTON — President Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to quickly provide almost $4 billion to confront a surge of young migrants from Central America crossing the border into Texas, calling it “an urgent humanitarian situation.”

In ONE DAY the amount DOUBLES?!!

But the request immediately became entangled in the fierce political debate over immigration: Republicans said they were wary of Obama’s request and could not immediately support it, given what they called his administration’s failure to secure the Mexican border after years of illegal crossings. Obama could face resistance from members of his own party as well.

The president said he needed the money to set up new detention facilities, conduct more aerial surveillance, and hire immigration judges and Border Patrol agents to respond to the flood of 52,000 children. Their sudden mass migration has overwhelmed local resources and touched off protests from residents angry about the impact on the local economy. In a letter to congressional leaders, Obama urged them to “act expeditiously” on his request.

I don't blame them. My main concern in all this is economic.

Republican lawmakers who have long demanded tougher enforcement of immigration laws along the border expressed cautious support Tuesday for beefing up the federal presence in the Rio Grande Valley, where most of the children have been crossing into the United States.

But many Republicans, especially in the House, remain deeply suspicious of the president’s commitment, a mistrust that led to a stalemate on a broader immigration overhaul and now threatens to at least delay speedy passage of Obama’s $3.7 billion spending request.

He's brought the suspicion on himself with his broken promises and lies.

“Let’s remember, this administration went around for years saying the border has never been more secure than it is now,” said Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2016. “I think that’s been exposed as a fallacy over the last three weeks.”

Speaker John A. Boehner said the president’s plan failed to deploy the National Guard, an idea the White House said would not be effective. And Representative John Carter of Texas said he was wary of any measure that gave Obama too much autonomy.

“The president caused this self-inflicted crisis on the border by refusing to enforce the law,” said Carter, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, which is likely to be asked to approve the request. “And now he is requesting a $3.7 billion bailout from the taxpayers to rectify his mistakes.”

With the help of NGOs.

Some Democrats, like Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, have expressed strong misgivings about any plan that would allow for unaccompanied children to be sent back home to dangerous situations.

Related: Sex Abuser Was Senate Aide 

That's how they blackmail Menendez.

The charged politics will shadow a long-planned trip that Obama began Tuesday and will include a two-day stop in Texas. The trip will underscore the difficulties for the White House on immigration. The president is calling for immediate action on the border even as he remains under pressure by activists to relax deportations.

I have my own problems, thanks.

After insisting that Obama had no plans to visit the Texas-Mexico border, White House officials said he would meet with Governor Rick Perry.

Perry, who is considering a second run for the Republican presidential nomination, had declined to participate in a photo opportunity with Obama in front of Air Force One, prompting a last-minute offer by the White House for the two to meet....

Wow, is that ever a shift in power. I thought this White House only groveled before Israel and Wall Street.

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"Obama pushes emergency spending for border" by Erica Werner | Associated Press   July 10, 2014

WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of children streaming from chaotic Central American nations to the US border have overwhelmed the government’s ability to respond, senior Obama administration officials testified Wednesday as they urged senators to agree to the president’s emergency spending request for the crisis.

But as President Obama traveled to Texas, Republican opposition hardened to his $3.7 billion request, leaving any solution unclear. At the same time, the political pressures on the president appeared to grow from all sides, as Republicans denounced him on the Senate floor, and even some Democrats began to join GOP demands for him to visit the US-Mexican border — calls the White House rejected.

Uh-oh.

Obama met with local leaders on the immigration situation — but in Dallas, not at the border. Sitting down with one of his harshest critics, Obama said he was open to all of Governor Rick Perry’s suggestions for addressing the wave of unaccompanied minors, urging Congress to approve his request for more funding so that those and other ideas can be put in place.

Obama said he was willing to consider dispatching National Guard troops to the border, as Perry suggested, but warned it would only be a temporary solution. He said if Perry and Republicans want the problem to be fixed in the longer term, they should press Congress to fund his request.

Looks like extortion and blackmail to me.

‘‘There’s nothing the governor indicated that he’d like to see that I have a philosophical objection to,’’ Obama said after the meeting.

Obama said Perry raised four areas of concern dealing with the number of border patrol agents, the positioning of those agents, the different policies for immigrants coming from Mexico versus Central America, and the functioning of the immigrant judicial system.

Obama said if Congress passes his emergency funding request, the government will have resources to take some of the steps Perry recommended. He said the problem is fixable if lawmakers are interested in solving it, but that if the preference is for politics, it won’t be solved.

In Washington, Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican who has supported Obama’s stalled quest to remake the nation’s immigration laws, said he could not support the spending request.

‘‘I cannot vote for a provision which will then just perpetuate an unacceptable humanitarian crisis that’s taking place on our southern border,’’ McCain said on the Senate floor, where he was joined by fellow Arizonan Jeff Flake and Texas Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. They took turns blaming Obama’s policies for causing the border situation, contending that his efforts to relax some deportations have contributed to rumors circulating in Central America that once here, migrant children will be allowed to stay.

‘‘Amnesty is unfolding before our very eyes,’’ Cruz said.

In the House, Speaker John Boehner was noncommittal about bringing the spending measure to a vote.

‘‘If we don’t secure the border, nothing’s going to change,’’ Boehner told reporters. “And if you look at the president’s request, it’s all more about continuing to deal with the problem.”

Meanwhile, immigration advocacy groups attacked the spending request from the left, saying it was too focused on enforcement. A group of civil liberties organizations filed a lawsuit in Seattle against the Obama administration arguing that the federal government is failing to provide the minors with legal representation.

With all due respect, defending illegality does not go over well.

And even some Democrats said Obama would be well-advised to visit the border.

‘‘Going out there and talking to people who live this day in and day out — that’s the perspective that’s missing,’’ Representative Raul Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, said.

Asked about Obama’s decision not to go to the border, White House spokesman Josh Earnest noted that other administration officials have done so and have a detailed understanding of the situation.

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"Outline of deal for deporting children starts to take shape" by Erica Werner and Alicia A. Caldwell | Associated Press   July 11, 2014

WASHINGTON — Outlines of a possible compromise that would more quickly deport minors arriving from Central America emerged Thursday as part of President Obama’s $3.7 billion emergency request to address the immigration crisis on the nation’s southern border.

How many work visas are going to be slid into this?

Republicans demanded speedier deportations, which the White House initially had supported but left out of its proposal after complaints from immigrant advocates and some Democrats. On Thursday, the top House and Senate Democrats pointedly left the door open to them.

‘‘It’s not a deal-breaker,’’ said House minority leader Nancy Pelosi of California, a Democrat. ‘‘Let them have their face-saver. But let us have the resources to do what we have to do.’’ Drew Hammill, her spokesman, later clarified that any changes ‘‘must ensure due process for these children.’’ 

Oh, the children, the children. I'm tired of having a mass-murdering government that supports the slaughter of Gazan children waving kids in our face.

In the Senate, majority leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said: ‘‘I’m not going to block anything. Let’s see what comes to the floor.’’

How about that Democratic leadership that is on your side, illegal immigration advocates?

But opposition arose late in the day from key Democratic senators, suggesting battles before a deal can be struck.

‘‘I can assure you that I will fight tooth and nail changes in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act,’’ Patrick Leahy, Senate Judiciary chairman said at a hearing, referring to the law Republicans want to change.

Noting that the arriving migrants include girls trying to escape sexual violence and gangs, Leahy said: ‘‘I’m not sure Americans all really feel we should immediately send them back.’’

Reid and Pelosi made their comments as House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky both said they didn’t want to give Obama a ‘‘blank check’’ to deal with the crisis of tens of thousands of unaccompanied children arriving at the Texas border, many fleeing gangs and drawn by rumors they would be able to stay in the United States. Boehner and McConnell indicated policy changes would be necessary to win their support.

That is the last thing he should be given.

The developments came as Obama’s Homeland Security secretary, Jeh Johnson, defended the emergency spending request at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He said that without the money, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol agencies would both run out of money in the next two months, and the Homeland Security Department ‘‘would need to divert significant funds from other critical programs just to maintain operations.’’

Well, the same was said to those waiting for extended unemployment benefits. Make f***ing due!

At issue is a law approved in 2008. Passed to give protection to sex trafficking victims, it requires court hearings for migrant young people who arrive in this country from ‘‘noncontiguous’’ countries — anywhere other than Mexico or Canada.

Because of enormous backlogs in the immigration court system, the result in the current crisis is that children streaming in from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala are released to relatives or others in the United States with notices to appear at long-distant court hearings that many of them never will attend.

Yeah, and the government is letting killers and rapists loose after six months.

Republicans want the government to have the authority to treat Central American children the same way as kids from Mexico, who can be removed quickly unless they persuade Border Patrol that they have a fear of return that merits additional screening.

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I wish the government would take such an interest in the welfare of hungry and homeless American kids.

"Two lawmakers target flood of migrant children; See no need for Obama to wait to tackle crisis" by Alicia A. Caldwell | Associated Press   July 14, 2014

WASHINGTON — President Obama can take action to relieve much of the crisis caused by tens of thousands of unaccompanied children crossing the southern US border without waiting for what is likely to be a contentious and lengthy congressional battle, say two key lawmakers, one a Democrat and the other a Republican.

At issue is a provision in a 2008 human trafficking law that puts the fate of young immigrants from countries that don’t border the United States in the hands of immigration judges.

The Obama administration has expressed interest in asking Congress to change the law to give the administration more leeway in dealing with the crisis. It can take years for cases to make their way through immigration courts.

That's a knee-jerk no.

But Representative Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that wholesale changes by Congress may not be necessary and that Obama has the authority to return the children to their native countries.

Since October, more than 57,000 children, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador, or Guatemala, have crossed the Mexican border without their parents.

Obama ‘‘has tools in his toolbox’’ to solve quickly what most officials say has become a humanitarian crisis and to deter more children from coming to the United States, Rogers said.

‘‘We can safely get them home,’’ Rogers said on NBC’s ‘‘Meet the Press.’’ He said, ‘‘And that’s where the president needs to start. So he needs to reengage, get folks who are doing administrative work on the border. They need to make sure they send a very clear signal.’’

Sigh.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and the author of the provision in the human trafficking law, said a change in regulations, not the law, could speed the children’s return.

The law already allows the departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services to write regulations to deal with ‘‘exceptional circumstances’’ that would allow officials to return the children more quickly to their home countries, Feinstein said Thursday during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing.

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Amid the crush of children traveling alone, more than 39,000 other people traveling with their families, mostly mothers and young children, have also been caught in South Texas. An undisclosed number have been released into the community with notices to report back to immigration officials or in court at a later date.

Obama said the $3.7 billion in emergency spending would help the government deal with the flood of unaccompanied child immigrants. Some of the money would help fund about 40 additional immigration judge teams.

Federal immigration courts have a backlog of more than 375,000 cases. It can often take several years for an immigrant to receive a final ruling.

Republicans have balked at the size of Obama’s spending request, arguing that he needs to do more to secure the border and do more to stop immigrant children from making the trip from Central America in the first place.

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell met privately with dozens of governors in Nashville on Sunday as the Obama administration tried to get support from the leaders of states that will host thousands of the Central American children.

Meaning they are not interested in sending them back at all, meaning all those sick kids the Globe is not telling you about will be coming here. 

The discussions were held on the sidelines of a meeting of the National Governors Association. Governors of both parties expressed concerns about the cost to states, including providing public education for the children, according to those who attended the meeting.

In Southern California on Sunday, immigrants were flocking to churches to see a wooden statue of a saint cherished by border-crossers who make the perilous journey to the United States.

????

The 4-foot-tall statue of Santo Toribio Romo Gonzalez was flown from the Mexican state of Jalisco and was making stops in churches in three California counties.

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"Bill would speed removals of Central American youths" by Erica Werner | Associated Press   July 15, 2014

WASHINGTON — Two Texas lawmakers announced legislation Monday to speed removal of tens of thousands of Central American children from the US-Mexico border, as Washington grasped for a solution to the mounting crisis.

You getting the narrative, because I'm sick of the shallow and superficial agenda-pushing  dance.

The bill by Senator John Cornyn, a Republican, and Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat, would allow US Border Patrol agents to turn many of the children around quickly at the border. Under current law, the youths stay while awaiting an eventual hearing in the backlogged immigration court system, something that can keep them in the United States for years.

That seems to be the plan, and they will all turn into Democratic voters, right? Gave 'em their freedom, such as it is here in 21st-century AmeriKa.

Of more than 57,000 unaccompanied minors who have arrived at the border since October, only 1,254 had been returned home as of the end of June, said a law enforcement official who spoke anonymously to discuss confidential data. 

The number will become important to me later.

‘‘The border region in Texas has been overwhelmed over the past few months by a deluge of undocumented immigrants from Central America,’’ Cuellar said in a statement. ‘‘Today’s legislation strengthens current law protecting unaccompanied children and responds to the crisis.’’

The bill comes as the White House is trying to get Congress to sign off on a $3.7 billion emergency spending request to deal with the situation at the border by adding more immigration judges and detention facilities, among other steps.

Republicans have made clear they will not agree to such spending without policy changes along the lines of what Cornyn and Cuellar are seeking, and the White House has indicated support for some such changes.

But immigrant advocacy groups and key Senate Democrats are opposed, making it unclear whether a deal can be struck in the three weeks that remain before Congress leaves Washington for its annual August recess.

Oh, they are going to take a summer vacation? Really?

Administration officials were to travel to Capitol Hill Wednesday to brief senators on the situation, and House members were to hear from lawmakers who traveled to Central America over the weekend as part of a working group convened by Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican.

Meanwhile, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that the first flight returning Central American families back home landed in Honduras Monday with 40 people on board who had been held in a new detention facility in Artesia, N.M.....

The flow has already started back the other way, right. 

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Related: Immigration activist detained, freed

It was the palm-sized copy of the US Constitution and not his documentation that made them do it. 

Like the illegals, the next steps are unknown to us all for I simply circled these stories today. The amount of print dedicated to anything shows its rank on the agenda at a given moment in time, be it diversionary or substantial to the overall agenda.

"Children trying to sneak into the US aren’t always alone" by Joshua Partlow | Washington Post   July 17, 2014

How come the ma$$ media always says what I said weeks or months earlier?

MEXICO CITY — The ‘‘unaccompanied minors’’ who walked out of the brush on the banks of the Rio Grande and turned themselves into Border Patrol officers last month were not, technically, unaccompanied.

After being dropped off nearby!

In the group of 15 people that we watched that night, about half of them appeared to be adults, including men and a woman carrying a baby, in addition to several children.

Again, many of them sick or criminals. I know it is not being reported as such, but that is what happened the last time. I can't blame those countries for wanting to clean 'em out and dump them on someone else; I blame my negligent and treasonous government that has failed to uphold the laws to which they were sworn. 

And is it only me, or does anyone else have a problem with the geniuses that designed globali$m and benefited from it by setting up this exact situation are the ones now posing as the immigrants friend as well as the saviors of the system with all the solutions?

It’s the most potent image in the current immigration crisis: tens of thousands of Central American children on a dangerous solo exodus out of their countries.

An exodus, huh? Interesting word choice from my newspaper.

But from what I’ve seen reporting on this issue from the US border and in Honduras, it is also somewhat misleading.

At this point my jaw hits the floor. Can the ma$$ media be reading me and changing their ways?

The term ‘‘Unaccompanied Alien Children,’’ or UACs, as used by US Customs and Border Protection, refers to people up to age 17 who are traveling without a parent or legal guardian. It does not mean they are traveling alone.

In migrant shelters in Mexico and Honduras, talking to both children and adults who are making these journeys, or who have been deported after failing to reach the United States, the most common scenario seems to be children who are traveling in groups that include adult relatives, neighbors, smugglers, or others. Often the children migrating already have one or more parents living in the United States, and they are considered ‘‘unaccompanied,’’ even if traveling with adult relatives.

Even if. Nothing like mischaracterizing the categories and circumstances. I have begun to expect nothing less from this government.

This is not to diminish the desperate circumstances these children are leaving, the dangers of the journey, or the strain this is causing on the immigration infrastructure in the United States.

In a government-run shelter for families and child migrants in San Pedro Sula, Honduras — the city that has sent more of these children north than any other — buses arrive three days a week with hundreds of migrants who got picked up along the way in Mexico and deported home.

Right, they are all being shipped back. The government and media ignited a firestorm here, and now they are trying to stamp it out! 

In interviews there recently, the children were with aunts, neighbors, grandparents, cousins, parents.

Looks like there are more adults than kids!!!!!

One 13-year-old boy I interviewed, whose parents were both in prison, had attempted the journey with a neighbor’s family. ‘‘His mom’s a good friend of mine,’’ the neighbor told me.

From Honduras, there are various ways these groups of migrants reach the United States.

Those with the most money to spend can hire smugglers to drive them in private cars across Guatemala and Mexico to the US border. Cheaper options, but often still paying a smuggler, mean going by bus or riding on top of Mexican trains.

Actually, that was proved to be a lie and yet the ma$$ media is out here with its limited hangout two weeks late. 

Sadly, it looks like a lot of these kids are being kidnapped by western do-gooders once again.

Some of the kids who end up alone caught in limbo in the immigration system started out with others. At a church-run migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico, one 14-year-old Honduran boy had set off with his 25-year-old brother before they got into an argument and parted ways. He continued the rest of the way through Mexico by hitchhiking.

Really? Through all that drug war violence and stuff?

Btw, notice that is MISSING from the DISCUSSION? We get gangs and violence, but not the who$e or why$.

A teenage girl from El Salvador awaiting deportation from a government-run shelter in Reynosa said she had been separated from her group of travelers, which included a smuggler, when she got too tired. She had nearly reached the Rio Grande when she was taken into custody.

Amid the tens of thousands of kids making this journey, there are surely some doing it completely alone, but that seems to be the exception.

Then the government lied to me again to try and push another agenda forward?

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And they wonder why we are angry?

"Small town riled over migrant policy" by Astrid Galvan | Associated Press   July 17, 2014

ORACLE, Ariz. — Protesters waved ‘‘Return to Sender’’ signs, shoved a group of mariachi musicians, and waited for a bus of immigrant children that the local sheriff told them would arrive. At one point, they briefly halted a bus before realizing it was carrying children from a local YMCA.

The bus of Central American children never arrived, ending a day of protest in a small Arizona town that drew more than 100 people on both sides of the immigration debate.

Sheriff Paul Babeu is credited with stirring up the anti-immigrant protesters through social media postings and a press release and by leaking information about the migrants’ arrival to a local activist.

See: Arizona Sheriff's Office

He had a gay illegal lover, huh? Some sheriff.

The Sycamore Canyon Academy acknowledged that it had an agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services to take in a ‘‘small number’’ of immigrant children from Central America, but it did not specify how many and when they would arrive.

‘‘All this was done in secrecy, and that’s where a lot of people are upset,’’ Babeu said Tuesday. ‘‘My concern [is] where’s the federal government? Why are they not here? Why did they not hold a town hall to answer some of these questions?’’

He addressed both sides of the protesters, asking them to remain civil, abide by the law, and keep the roads cleared. Immigrant-rights activists questioned Babeu about agitating protesters when he should be bringing order as the county’s top lawman.

Babeu said he was simply informing the public and was at the site to make sure the protests on both sides were peaceful.

The protests came as the government released new numbers that show how many immigrant families and children have been pouring into the country in recent months. 

Like I would believe anything they put out!!! 

The Border Patrol says 55,420 family members have been caught at the border from October through the end of June, a nearly 500 percent increase from the same period in the previous year. The number includes adults apprehended with their young children, most of whom were caught in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. In addition, the Border Patrol says, 57,525 unaccompanied children have been apprehended through the end of June.

The dueling groups in Oracle had a combined 130 people at the peak of the protests, including about 80 rallying against the shuttling of immigrants and 50 in favor. The immigrants’ supporters held welcome signs with drawings of hearts.

That is a representative ratio regarding the whole nation.

Emily Duwel of Oracle said she did not want her town to be misrepresented by what she said was a minority of people who were against the children being housed here.

‘‘I’m just concerned about these children who have had to escape worlds of incredible violence,’’ Duwel said.

Stop beating those that disagree with you over the head with children unless they are corpses from Gaza over the heads of Israelis, 'kay?!! 

MAN!!!!

A spokesman for the federal Department of Health and Human Services said the agency would not identify the locations of shelters for migrants to protect their identities and safety.

But this government will collect all you legal citizens' communications and movements. And don't worry about the failed health website!

Babeu has generated controversy in the past over his immigration rhetoric. When five bodies were found in a burned-out SUV in his county in 2012, Babeu quickly declared that the killings appeared to be the work of a drug cartel. A few days later, it was learned that it was a murder-suicide of a suburban Phoenix family and not drug-related.

A massive surge in unaccompanied children crossing the border illegally began more than a month ago, turning the issue into a major political debate in Washington and in cities across the United States.

Not by accident. Agenda-pushing papers and there focus are there for a reason.

In a state known for its strict immigration laws, including SB1070, which many call the ‘‘show me your papers’’ law, attitudes are just as contentious.

Why not? I always have to. It's when they, you know, ask for ID.

‘‘We are not going to tolerate illegals forced upon us,’’ protester Loren Woods said.

The fallout began in late May, when reports surfaced that immigration officials were dropping off hundreds of women and children at Phoenix and Tucson Greyhound bus stations after they had been caught crossing the border illegally.

They can't take care of veterans down there and yet illegal kids will be cared for. Unreal!

Within a week, immigration authorities were flying hundreds of children who had crossed the border into Texas alone to be processed at various immigration facilities.

They are not saying where.

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I'm beginning to wonder whether creating this crisis is a prelude to social unrest and the declaration of martial law Obama has craved, followed by the suspension of the 2014 elections until a future date to be determined by the president. 

Time to begin writing the articles of impeachment.

"GOP, Democrats fight over legality of suing Obama" by Alan Fram | Associated Press   July 17, 2014

WASHINGTON — A planned House Republican lawsuit against President Obama is justified because his actions carrying out the health care law dangerously exceed his powers, constitutional lawyers backing the litigation told lawmakers Wednesday.

Whatever you can nail him on.

Attorneys allied with Democrats in opposing the election-year suit said it’s the GOP that’s going too far by trying to resolve a political dispute by handing the question to the federal courts to decide.

That is what is most discouraging. Democrats would be meekly grousing were this Bush.

The lawyers appeared before the House Rules Committee, which is considering Republican-written legislation authorizing the House to file the lawsuit. House Speaker John Boehner, Republican from Ohio, has said he wants to take legal action because Obama has abused his authority to carry out laws Congress approves, specifically by delaying a health care law requirement that many employers provide medical coverage for workers.

And this failure to uphold the law on immigration. Treasonous.

In recent months, Republicans have attacked Obama for taking such actions as having the Environmental Protection Agency curb emissions from coal-fired power plants, raising the minimum wage for federal contractors, and blocking the deportation of children illegally brought into the United States by their parents. GOP lawmakers say their lawsuit is simply an attempt to defend Congress’s powers against a president who has made a habit of acting unilaterally to carry out personal policy preferences.

Anybody got a paper and pen so we can start listing these?

‘‘This is not a political issue. This is not an issue that should pit Republicans against Democrats,’’ said Representative Pete Sessions, Republican from Texas and chairman of the Rules Committee.

‘‘Any person interested in our Constitution and our brilliant system of separation of powers should be worried about what is currently happening in our country,’’ he said.

You didn't happen to read it, did you?

Democrats mocked the legal action as a purely political exercise that is doomed to failure but aimed at appeasing conservatives who want to see Obama impeached.  

Yeah, but I'm not a conservative. I'm what I consider a humanist.

The Rules Committee’s top Democrat, Representative Louise Slaughter of New York, called it ‘‘preposterous’’ and noted that in effect Republicans are filing suit over a delay in a part of a law that every GOP lawmaker opposed and that the House has voted about 50 times to repeal or pare back.

‘‘This is a partisan political stunt timed to peak in the House of Representatives in November, right as the midterm elections are happening,’’ Slaughter said. ‘‘The House majority is suing the president simply for doing his job.’’

The whole year has been that.

The House is expected to vote on the resolution before leaving for its August recess.

On Wednesday, each party sought ammunition by inviting legal experts to testify.

Everything framed in terms of a war in my war paper.

Elizabeth Price Foley, a Republican witness, a law professor at Florida International University, said Republicans have ‘‘an excellent chance’’ of winning a dispute over the meaning of the constitutional provision that the president ‘‘shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.’’

That was countered by attorney Simon Lazarus of the Constitutional Accountability Center, a Democratic witness who said the Constitution gives presidents authority to make reasonable and needed adjustments as laws are translated into government action.

She then did the goose-step salute.

Responding to outcries from business groups, Obama has twice delayed the section of the 2010 health care law requiring companies with 50 or more employees working 30 or more hours a week to offer health care coverage or pay fines.

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Who gives a $hit?

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As if the propaganda pre$$ gave a crap about Bolivia. If they did I would have read about the bubonic plague that showed up.