Honduras is building the gas ovens as I type.
The comparison is so offensive and hyperbolic it is hard to know where to begin.
First of all, were I Jewish I would be offended. To compare what is going on at the southern border to the received mythology regarding the Holocaust™ is outrageous. We are talking tens of thousands here, not millions, blah, blah.
Another thing that is offensively insulting is using this example in general. I'm really tired of hearing the endless drone of violins regarding Jews in the world when Israel is bashing the hell out of Gaza and its children -- and has now gone in with the ground forces.
Related: Patrick pledges support for Israel during rally in Chestnut Hill
Also insultingly offensive is the analogy and conclusion that is implied, in that if you oppose this immigration invasion you are somehow some sort of Nazi! That's what the mud-slinging by this man is, nothing more. It's meant to pin a label on those who oppose the policy.
Lastly is the atrocious condition he has left this state in after eight years of governance -- and now he is going to DUMP THIS PROBLEM on his SUCCESSOR since he is GONE in SIX MONTHS (unless he knows something we do not know, 'eh?). What a sphincter.
This is what I pulled off the top of the front page:
"Governor Patrick wants Mass. to host children; Cites example of Jews sent back to Europe who perished in Holocaust" by Jim O’Sullivan | Globe Staff July 16, 2014
Governor Deval Patrick on Wednesday said he wanted to find a way for Massachusetts to help alleviate the crisis of children seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, avoiding the type of feud with the White House into which other governors have been drawn, and invoking powerful imagery as his motivation.
The most powerful you could!
“My inclination is to remember what happened when a shipful of Jewish children tried to come to the United States in 1939 and the United States turned them away, and many of them went to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps,” Patrick said when a reporter asked how he viewed the border crisis. “I think we are a bigger-hearted people than that as Americans, and certainly as residents of Massachusetts.”
Speak for yourself as you rub elbows with your money ma$ters and friends in the political cla$$.
He added, “Now getting from there to a practical solution, I have not done yet. I’m trying to think that through.”
Patrick said his immediate challenge was finding where in Massachusetts to house the children as the federal government, which he said would pay for the assistance, determines how to handle the nearly 60,000 children estimated to have migrated from Central America.
The message from the federal government, Patrick said, was essentially: “What can you do if anything to help shelter these children while they’re being processed?”
Estimates for how many children Massachusetts could be asked to shelter, he said, had not yet arrived.
“They’re not saying and haven’t asked that we take a certain number,” Patrick said.
His invocation of the Holocaust appears to correspond to the story of the St. Louis, a ship that sailed from Germany in the spring of 1939 carrying roughly 900 Jewish refugees. The ship was forced to return to Europe, where more than a quarter are known to have died in the Holocaust, according to the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum.
You do not have to remind me.
“I think there’s a humanitarian reason to try to find a solution, try to find a way to help,” he said Wednesday. “These are children, coming from incredibly dangerous places. And we have to do something sensible and humane while we process them for whatever the step is.”
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who has shown the type of interest in a 2016 presidential candidacy that Patrick has eschewed, has found himself in a public spat with the Obama administration over the issue.
O’Malley last week criticized the administration for being too callous toward the children. A top Obama aide later reportedly called O’Malley to contest the remarks. During the call, according to published reports, O’Malley asked that the immigrant children not be sent to a facility in western Maryland.
He's a Democrat!
O’Malley aides have said that he is working with federal officials to find suitable places in Maryland for the children to go.
Patrick, who is personally close with Obama, on Wednesday pointedly did not criticize the administration’s handling of the border crisis.
Also on Wednesday, Governor Dan Malloy’s administration turned down a federal request to house 2,000 children at a mostly vacant facility in Southbury.
Also a Democrat!
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What I found on page A1 of the printed paper:
"Patrick wants Mass. to host immigrant children; Says immigrants detained in Southwest deserve a safe haven" by Jim O’Sullivan and Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff July 17, 2014
Governor Deval Patrick said Wednesday he was trying to find ways for Massachusetts to host immigrant children who recently crossed the US Southwest border illegally, responding to urgent requests from the Obama administration to find places to house them.
Anyone tell him Boston is a haven for the homeless?
Patrick said his immediate challenge was identifying suitable locations, and he emphasized that the federal government would foot costs of housing the children, most of whom have left Central American countries. Estimates on how many youngstersMassachusetts could be asked to shelter, he said, had not yet been determined.
As if it mattered which American citizens were being forced to pay for this fiasco.
Some cities and states have vehemently objected to requests by federal officials who are trying to relocate the children from facilities on the border.
I was left with the impression below that they were starting to send everyone back!
Federal officials have “asked us to focus on larger-capacity places and ones that are able to be secured,” a senior Patrick administration official said. “They’ve also made pretty clear that, given the intense need to address the humanitarian crisis, they’re willing to consider different ideas.”
Camp Edwards is one of the locations under consideration, the Patrick official said. It housed about 300 evacuees after Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast in 2005 and is part of the 22,000-acre Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod.
“While only a few facilities will ultimately be selected, a wide range of facilities are being identified and evaluated to determine if they may feasibly provide temporary shelter space for children,” federal Health and Human Services spokesman Kenneth J. Wolfe said in an e-mail.
How did HHS get involved in all this anyway?
The surge of children from Central American countries has posed humanitarian and political challenges for President Obama. To deal with the current crisis, Obama has proposed a $3.7 billion supplemental budget. Republicans on Capitol Hill have greeted the request coolly.
See: Immigration Crisis Meant to Advance North American Union
Before the recent controversy erupted, Obama had come under fire from immigration advocates for deporting high numbers of illegal immigrants, even as he worked unsuccessfully to pass legislation providing a path to legal citizenship in Congress.
In Massachusetts, local officials have complained that inadequate US border security has strained city and town resources. House minority leader Bradley Jones, a North Reading Republican, said that instead of finding facilities to house migrant children, the state should use the space to alleviate the homelessness problems.
I guess I am a Massachusetts Republican.
“Candidly, I’m kind of skeptical of the situation,” Jones said in a telephone interview. “I think it raises a bunch more questions than the governor has been willing or able to answer at this point: How many? At what cost? How long?”
What does he care? He's off to bigger and better things in 2015.
Immigrant advocates, lawyers, pediatricians, and others in Massachusetts have been scrambling to respond to the crisis in recent weeks, and Patrick’s announcement is expected to intensify their efforts.
Frank Soults, communications director for the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, an umbrella group of immigrant organizations, said his group and the Chelsea Collaborative, another nonprofit, are trying to coordinate aid for the children, determining whether they need clothing donations, free legal aid, or help with psychological or medical services.
I'm wondering how all the legal homeless children of America are feeling upon seeing that.
Wednesday was not the first time Patrick has stepped into the immigration policy debate. He has been critical of other states’ crackdowns on illegal immigrants, and in 2007, he criticized the Bush administration after federal agents raided a factory in New Bedford.
Related: New Bedford Nightmare
Why are illegal immigrants assembling military backpacks?
Jobs Americans don't want?
Patrick invoked powerful imagery Wednesday to describe how he thought Massachusetts and other states should respond to the border crisis.
“My inclination is to remember what happened when a ship full of Jewish children tried to come to the United States in 1939 and the United States turned them away, and many of them went to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps,” Patrick said when a reporter asked how he viewed the border crisis. “I think we are a bigger-hearted people than that as Americans, and certainly as residents of Massachusetts.”
His evocation of the Holocaust appears to correspond to the story of the St. Louis, a ship that sailed from Germany in the spring of 1939 carrying about 900 Jewish refugees. The ship was forced to return to Europe, where more than a quarter of those on board are known to have died in the Holocaust, according to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
“There’s a humanitarian reason to try to find a solution, try to find a way to help,” he said Wednesday. “These are children, coming from incredibly dangerous places. And we have to do something sensible and humane while we process them for whatever the next step is.”
Those four paragraphs were moved up to the top of the web article.
The governor also sidestepped the type of political feud with the White House that has ensnared other governors. Patrick, who is personally close with Obama, on Wednesday pointedly did not criticize the administration’s handling of the border crisis.
Advocates for immigrants called Patrick’s stand a courageous act in a state where immigrants who are living here illegally have struggled to make inroads.
WTF? We are a SANCTUARY STATE fer crissakes!
Despite numerous attempts and Patrick’s support, immigrant advocates have been unable to persuade lawmakers to pass bills calling for driver’s licenses or in-state tuition for immigrants here without papers.
Oh, the agenda-pushers didn't get everything they wanted, that's what they meant.
“This seems to me a humanitarian act by Governor Patrick,” said Antonio Amaya, executive director of La Comunidad, an immigrant aid group in Everett. “It’s very important. And we have to stress that a governor like Deval Patrick should be an example for other states.”
Amaya said he was surprised that Patrick strongly welcomed the children, given the heated controversy the influx has generated nationwide.
In Murrieta, Calif., this month, protesters blocked buses of immigrant children being taken to a processing center. In Arizona, where other children were taken, dueling protests erupted, according to news reports.
In Connecticut, Governor Dannel P. Malloy refused to accept 2,000 children, though he has signed bills limiting police cooperation with immigration officials and granting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. According to the Associated Press, the state rejected the request because the building that federal officials wanted to house the children in was in deteriorating condition, among other reasons.
Governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland, a Democrat who is a potential 2016 presidential candidate, has also been in a public spat over the issue after he challenged the Obama administration’s handling of the immigrant children.
“Not many politicians are making constructive decisions” on the issue, Amaya said. “The crisis isn’t easy. They’re coming in big numbers across the border. To have the courage to say, yes, Massachusetts is a state where we welcome children, it’s excellent.”
Therefore if you oppose the policy, you hate children.
Now when is the next drone strike?
The New York Times reported Thursday that federal officials are searching for places to house the unaccompanied minors and have been forced to scrap some proposed shelter sites in other states because of widespread opposition from residents and local officials.
Once again, an Obummer public relations offensive and manufactured crisis backfires!!!
Immigrant children have been crossing the border by the thousands for many years, but the surge this year has intensified the national debate over illegal immigration.
Meaning an agenda is being pushed.
Federal records show that at least 60,000 unaccompanied minors are expected this fiscal year, compared with 24,668 during the last fiscal year and 13,625 the year before.
60,000, that's all? Not 6 million like that other thing?
Most are coming from the Central American nations of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, which are racked by high crime and drug trafficking.
That is the first inference regarding drug gangs!
Others are searching for work or joining parents they haven’t seen for years. Still others were brought to the United States by human trafficking rings, federal officials say.
How could you deny them that, huh?
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Also see: Federal officials acknowledge flights of immigrants to Mass.
That's the reason as Sarno gets singled out for not wanting diseased criminals and the like being dumped in his already struggling city.
"Outrage greets rebuff of asylum seekers" Associated Press July 08, 2014
SYDNEY — Australia’s government confirmed Monday it had handed over a boatload of asylum seekers to Sri Lankan authorities in a transfer at sea, drawing outrage from human rights groups who fear those on board could be persecuted in their home country.
The 41 Sri Lankans were intercepted by Australia’s border patrol off the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean in late June, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said in a statement. On Sunday, they were handed over to the Sri Lankan government after their refugee claims were assessed at sea and rejected.
For days, Morrison refused to comment on reports that Australian officials had intercepted two boats carrying around 200 Sri Lankan asylum seekers and handed them over to Sri Lankan authorities.
On Monday, the minister again declined to say whether a second boat exists, and his spokesman did not respond to requests seeking clarification.
Late Monday night, Australia’s High Court issued an interim injunction blocking the government from transferring asylum seekers from the second boat to Sri Lankan authorities. The injunction will remain in place until a hearing is held on Tuesday.
The matter was brought before the court by a group of lawyers who argue the asylum seekers’ return to Sri Lanka is illegal.
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Maybe you think I'm heartless, but the policies in place that led to all these things were not approved by me.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
Australia’s repeal of carbon tax denounced
It is APPLAUDED here! Congratulations, Australians!
"State would house hundreds of migrant children; 4-month stay envisioned for young immigrants" by Peter Schworm, Michael Levenson and Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff July 18, 2014
Governor Deval Patrick provided new details Thursday about a federal request to house some of the migrant children crossing the US border, saying he has asked officials to find a location for several hundred Central American children for about four months.
A day after lending his support for a temporary facility, Patrick said the shelter would be secure “without being a jail,” administered by the US Department of Health and Human Services, and allow immigration officials to hold processing hearings for the children.
Camp Edwards, part of an expansive military reservation on Cape Cod that took in evacuees from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is under consideration.
“It bears remembering they’re children and they’re alone,” Patrick said. “I think we are the kind of country, and the kind of Commonwealth, who can step up.”
F*** you, governor!
Immigration advocates hailed Patrick’s plan to host the children, but Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson joined other critics in denouncing the idea as a drain on public resources. Some cities and states, such as Connecticut, have rejected calls to take in the migrants.
Patrick’s willingness to respond to what he called a “humanitarian crisis” was backed by the leading Republican and three Democratic candidates running for governor and other state officials, but met with criticism from some immigration opponents and the ranking Republican in the Massachusetts House, in addition to the Bristol sheriff.
Proving none of those gubernatorial candidates are worth covering.
Hodgson suggested it would encourage illegal immigration....
That is the PURPOSE!
Immigration lawyers are scrambling to provide assistance....
The surge of Central American migrants in recent months has already placed a strain on a number of Massachusetts cities and school systems, such as Chelsea, Lynn, and New Bedford, say officials in those cities....
Racist! Racist!
Patrick said the facility would need to be appropriate for children, with enough room for them to play and go to school....
Why not just send them to summer camp?
All three Democratic candidates for governor, and the leading Republican candidate, Charlie Baker, said they agree with Patrick that Massachusetts should host the children.
“All of the states, including Massachusetts, should be part of the effort to provide humanitarian relief for the unaccompanied children that have crossed the border,” Baker said, calling the crisis “heartbreaking.”
You just broke mine, Chuck.
If the children wind up in Massachusetts, efforts to provide social services and legal aid to immigrants will take on new urgency, said Franklin Soults of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, an umbrella group of immigrant organizations. His group will release a plan to respond to the crisis next week.
A nonprofit, the Chelsea Collaborative, has been helping to reunite relatives and family friends with children detained at the border.
In October, the group saw only a handful of children directed here. But since June, they have helped place 40, said Gladys Vega, who directs the group.
The collaborative also connects the children with food, legal services, and health care and helps them enroll in schools.
“It’s about making sure they have these resources,” Vega said. “The community has a responsibility to provide these.”
So when are they going to start providing them to legal citizens?
As for responsibility, no I don't!! It is NOT MY POLICIES that LED TO THIS MESS!!
Most of the unaccompanied minors arriving in Chelsea come from shelters in Texas, she said. From there, the children contact relatives or family friends in Chelsea, which has a significant Honduran and Salvadorian population.
We are a sanctuary state, that's why.
Jason Panzarino, a Boston immigration lawyer, said he represents dozens of children, including a boy from El Salvador who hid in a church for a week before he could escape gangs trying to recruit him.
Another boy’s father was killed in that country and his mother left him alone with his two siblings; the boy was also threatened by gangs.
“It’s nice to see some politician stepping up and actually treating these kids with dignity and some kind of compassion for their situation,” he said of Patrick’s stance. “Especially when the law says they get to go to court. It’s not their fault court’s going to take three to four years.”
You have already eaten every little piece of heart and I have none left, sorry.
John Willshire Carrera and Nancy Kelly, immigration lawyers in Boston, said they will ask federal officials to provide the children with access to lawyers.
“As a bar, we are very ready to take on representation of these children. We are definitely welcoming of these kids and we’re going to fight for them,” said Willshire Carrera, a lawyer with the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinic at Greater Boston Legal Services.
What part of ILLEGAL do you NOT UNDERSTAND?
Kelly said many of the children are likely eligible for asylum because they fear persecution back home.
Ah, back to the Holocaust™ comparisons.
“Children don’t leave their families and their homes lightly. It’s not children off on a lark,” she said.
“This is kids who are being targeted by gangs and they’ve seen their friends and family members die.”
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Also see: Mass. steps up in child migrants crisis
Time for me to step off and go get a coffee. Already previewed a Globe today, and it doesn't look worth the purcha$e. Sorry.
UPDATE: Adult Illegal Immigrants Posing as Children To Enroll in High School
A Massachusetts city‘s packed school system is being forced to accept illegal-alien adults.
