And let's not forget the AmeriKan-led wars, coups, and overthrows that apparently have accounted for over 50 million refugees worldwide now. Different kind of "immigrant," I gue$$.
Influx of children shows urgent need for immigration reform
I knew there was an agenda behind the sudden concern and attention.
"Obama seeks immigration plan’s delay | Associated Press June 03, 2014
WASHINGTON — The White House has asked the Department of Defense to delay a plan that would allow some immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children to obtain a limited path to citizenship by serving in the military.
Was that in the brochure?
The decision to postpone the proposal is part of the White House effort to put off any immigration-related executive actions until August in the hope that House Republicans act on legislation to overhaul the immigration system in the next two months.
And oddly, action on that might be forthcoming due to the upset in Virgina. Cantor now freed to follow through on it without political ramifications as the push in the paper before and after has also proved. The push is on!
White House officials have said they do not want to hurt those chances by taking executive branch actions that would anger congressional Republicans.
Since when? The guy is doling out executive orders and violating the law all the time.
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In a separate development, the Obama administration is asking Congress for an extra $1.4 billion to deal with a continued increase in unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America trying to cross the Mexican border.
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Administration officials said they underestimated how much money would be needed to deal with the problem.
Well, sorry. We are under austerity here, and yet you guys want to throw a billion here, a billion there, a millions over there, millions over here. WTF?!!!
The Office of Management and Budget said the increase in children trying to cross the border alone has created an ‘‘acute humanitarian situation’’ that could cost the government as much as $2.28 billion.
Then we have another Obummer of a failure.
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This WAVING THE KIDS AT US has reached the point of pathetic when you consider it is coming from a war-pushing propaganda pre$$ that has colluded in the deaths and mailings of millions of children.
But they care about kids, does my ba$tion of corporate liberali$m.
"Obama vows aid to migrant children" by Alicia A. Caldwell and Christopher Sherman | Associated Press June 04, 2014
What about our own kids, you know, actual citizens that are hungry and homeless?
Not trying to be callous, but nor am I taken in by the humanitarian goodne$$ of a whoreporate media. Sorry.
WASHINGTON — The flood of migrant children trying to cross the Mexican border alone has become an ‘‘urgent humanitarian situation,’’ President Obama said Monday, one that is likely to cost the government about $1 billion more than his administration thought.
Now it's a FLOOD! I hope it's drought area.
Also see:
Flooding threatens residents in 3 states
Big Sioux River crests; Interstate 29 reopens
Tornado warnings give S.D. city time to evacuate
That's enough of a weather report.
Late last week, the Obama administration asked Congress for $1.4 billion in extra funding to help house, feed, and transport the tens of thousands of children being caught trying to cross the border illegally and turned to the Defense Department to help temporarily house about 1,000 of the children.
(Blog editor shaking his head; we really are in total war mode)
In a presidential memorandum Monday, Obama described the situation in stark terms and appointed the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Craig Fugate, to lead the government’s response.
In the past eight months alone, 47,000 children have been apprehended at the southwest border.
Children trying to cross the border alone is not a new phenomenon, and the numbers have been on the rise since 2009. But Obama’s director of domestic policy, Cecilia Munoz, said the increase in 2014 is larger than last year and the group also now includes more girls and larger numbers of children younger than 13. The increase appears to have caught the administration by surprise, despite growing increases over the past few years.
Similar to the VA scandal!
Was this an attempt at diversion from that damnable mess?
‘‘All of these things are contributing to the sense of urgency,’’ Munoz said. ‘‘These are children who have gone through a harrowing experience alone.’’
When I see that word in an agenda-pushing paper it means hit the brakes!
The government estimates that as many as 60,000 children, mostly from Central America, could be caught this year. That would be a nearly tenfold increase from 2011.
Between 2008 and 2011, the number of children landing in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement fluctuated between 6,000 and 7,500 a year. In 2012 border agents caught 13,625 unaccompanied children, and that number surged even more — to over 24,000 — last year.
Rampant crime and poverty across Central America and a desire to reunite with parents or other relatives are thought to be driving many of the young immigrants. Migrant children remain in removal proceedings even after they’re reunited with their parents here, though many have been able to win permission from a judge to stay in the United States.
The growth has surpassed the system’s capacity to process and house the children, prompting the government to open an emergency operations center in South Texas to help coordinate the efforts of Refugee Resettlement, a division of the Health and Human Services Department. It also turned to the Defense Department to help house children in barracks at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio.
Gives 'em a reason to reopen 'em, I guess. House 'em in the FEMA camps.
Nothing about them being bused and dumped in Arizona, huh?
If the latest estimates hold, the government could spend more than $2.28 billion to house, feed, and transport the children to shelters or reunite them with relatives living in the United States. The new estimate is about $1.4 billion more than the government asked for in Obama’s budget request sent to Congress earlier this year.
And the costs can only rise while you suffer and starve, Americans.
Republican lawmakers suggested Monday that the flood of children at the border was the result of Obama’s lax enforcement of immigration laws.
It was!
‘‘The recent surge of children and teenagers from Central America showing up at our southern border is an administration-made disaster,’’ said Representative Bob Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Related:
[Obama is setting-up another "humanitarian intervention," using Mexican and Central American children as justification for that intervention, similar to the refugee tragedies he has created Europe. Just like his "humanitarian interventions" in Libya and Syria have unleashed tsunamis of flowing refugees fleeing Obama's war zones, he is using executive power to override accepted long-term immigration policies and established law. Obama is setting the same example, with these children, that he wants Italy and all of Europe to accept, in relation to the flow of war refugees. By embracing the flow of emigration northward, it will seem as if he has opened a tap, releasing an even greater torrent of unwanted humanity upon us. As in Italy, where they are currently being overrun with people who will become the Italian government's responsibility (if the govt opens its arms to them), thousands of new Mexican children will automatically become America's new burden. Obama, the international president, is breaking-down our borders just as surely as he is using human waves to breakdown borders everywhere else in the world (SEE: The War Crime of Intentional Refugee Creation).] -- Who Will Save America from Obama’s “Responsibility To Protect (R2P)” liberal Ideals?
And he's far from a Republican.
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[We have been one-step away from opening the FEMA camps for quite a while. Leave it to Obama to so screw-up the world that the internment camps would be needed.] -- Open Our Borders To Mexican/Central American Children, Open the FEMA Camps Next
[We have been one-step away from opening the FEMA camps for quite a while. Leave it to Obama to so screw-up the world that the internment camps would be needed.] -- Open Our Borders To Mexican/Central American Children, Open the FEMA Camps Next
You are on your own:
"Migrant children traveling alone strain makeshift Ariz. shelter" by Ken Belson | New York Times June 08, 2014
PHOENIX — Immigration officials overwhelmed by a flood of women and children from Central America who illegally crossed the border from Mexico are moving hundreds of unaccompanied boys and girls this weekend to a makeshift detention center in Nogales, Ariz.
That doesn't sound good.
The move is the latest effort by the Obama administration to cope with the tens of thousands of women and children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras who it says have fled violence and poverty in their countries and have streamed into Texas in recent months.
Governor Jan Brewer has criticized President Obama for releasing some of these migrants at a bus station in Phoenix with instructions to go to immigration centers. She said federal officials had told her office this will continue for the foreseeable future.
That looks impeachable to me.
Since Memorial Day, federal immigration officials have flown hundreds of women and children to Tucson, where they were given medical and other tests.
Now it is children AND women.
I don't have any pieces of heart left for you to appeal to, agenda-pushers. You took every piece already.
Sorry.
They were then sent by bus to Phoenix and left at the Greyhound station to find their relatives around the nation. They were told to report to an immigration center within 15 days of reaching their destination, officials said.
Why even bother with an ICE or DHS? Just a revolving door like the drug war so tax loot can be stolen and a justification for tyranny maintained.
Immigration advocates have criticized the federal government for stranding the women and children in extreme heat with no money or food. Volunteers have stepped in to help them reach their families.
Then why does Obummer need another billion?
The government may continue to drop off women and children in Phoenix, but it has also opened a facility in Nogales to temporarily house children traveling alone before they are sent to other holding centers. Brewer said that 432 children were sent to Arizona on Friday and that an additional 734 were expected to arrive during the weekend.
“I am disturbed and outraged that President Obama’s administration continues to implement this dangerous and inhumane policy, meanwhile neglecting to answer crucial questions our citizens demand and deserve,” the governor, a Republican, said Friday.
That's just Republican complaining, right? Bunch of racists, right?
Arizona officials have sent federal supplies to Nogales because the shelter there was running out of essential materials.
Children have been sleeping on plastic cots, and portable toilets and showers have been taken to the holding center.
Millions of Americans, including vets, don't even have that.
The shelter in Nogales can hold about 1,500 people, a Department of Homeland Security official said.
The children will be vaccinated and given a medical checkup, then sent to shelters at military facilities in Oxnard, Calif.; San Antonio; and Fort Sill, Okla.
Wow, the KIDS are going to be GUINEA PIGS for the PHARMACEUTICALS after Obama said come on up!
The more I see this man's policies, actions, and the public persona he and the mouthpiece pre$$ present, the more I see evil!
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has only one facility for children, in Pennsylvania.
Since October, more than 47,000 children traveling without parents have been caught trying to cross the Southwest border, a 92 percent increase over the similar period a year earlier.
Federal officials predict that at least 60,000 minors will try to cross into the United States without their parents this fiscal year.
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Oh, and it is no stay at Boy's Town, either:
"Groups allege abuse of child immigrants at border; Kept in icy cells, some abused, report indicates" by Elliot Spagat | Associated Press June 12, 2014
SAN DIEGO — Unaccompanied children arrested by US border authorities are packed in frigid cells and sleep on hard floors without enough food or medical care, advocacy groups said in a complaint Wednesday that alleges widespread abuses amid a surge of illegal crossings by young immigrants from strife-torn Central American countries.
Get your shots yet?
The Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project and four other groups produced 116 allegations of abuse of children who were in Customs and Border Protection custody. They said more than 80 percent received inadequate food and water, about half were denied medical care, and about one of every four was physically abused.
It is really nothing new for the holes that are AmeriKan jails, and it's a good point.
Regardless of where you stand on immigration, the government is certainly not out to help the illegals even as they profess such humanitarian goals.
A 13-year-old boy said he was threatened by an official with a metal rod and was later sexually molested while in custody; a 14-year-old girl reported her asthma inhaler was confiscated; and a 14-year-old boy was unable to sleep for five days because the lights were always on. A 16-year-old boy said an official told him, ‘‘You are in my country now, and we are going to bury you in a hole.’’
That's the prevailing mindset across all law enforcement, and I guess it is a bit like Boy's Town.
The allegations described in the administrative complaint to the Department of Homeland Security were based on interviews with the children from about March to May. The complaint does not provide dates of the alleged abuse, but authors said much of it occurred during the past year.
The locations are not listed because, the authors said, the children were frequently shuttled around and did not know where they were.
I thought they were to be paired with relatives. That's what I was told.
The children were identified only by initials in a 25-page version of the complaint that was made public, but the authors said they provided names and other biographical information to the Homeland Security’s inspector general and office civil rights and civil liberties. They urged the department to investigate the complaints, punish any wrongdoing, and make its findings public.
Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that it does not tolerate misconduct and was providing food, medical care, and other basic services under constant supervision, while working to transfer children to the Department of Health and Human Services within 72 hours, as required by law. It said ‘‘extraordinary measures’’ were being taken in response to an overwhelming tide of children crossing in South Texas.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Customs and Border Protection, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
‘‘This should be the final straw. These children’s stories are horrific,’’ said James Lyall of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Border Litigation Project, which joined Americans for Immigrant Justice, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and the Florence Immigrant Rights & Refugee Project. The groups work closely with the children after they are released.
Customs and Border Protection arrested 47,017 unaccompanied children on the border from October through May, up 92 percent from the same period a year earlier. A draft Border Patrol memorandum estimates that number could reach 90,000 in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, up from a previous government estimate of 60,000.
Last week, President Obama declared a crisis and appointed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to lead the government’s response.
Then they REALLY ARE FEMA CAMPS!
Hundreds of children have been flown to a makeshift shelter at a Border Patrol station in Nogales, Ariz., while the Defense Department prepares military bases in California, Oklahoma, and Texas, for temporary housing.
Anybody ever tell them we have a HOMELESSNESS CRISIS here at HOME?
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that violence in Central America is main driver but acknowledged that parents probably know their children will be released to the Department of Health and Human Services, ‘‘which very often means reuniting them with their parents.’’
Why would they know that? How would they know that?
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Hey, at least you kids are making some money.
"Biden issues warning to migrants" Associated Press June 21, 2014
GUATEMALA CITY — The Obama administration moved Friday to stem a flood of Central American children and families that has overwhelmed the US immigration system, sending Vice President Joe Biden to the region to warn against the perils of the trip and announcing it will start to detain families at the border instead of releasing them on their own recognizance.
Officials had insisted for weeks that criminal violence was responsible for the surge of Central American children and families rather than the perception that minors and parents with children would be allowed to stay.
Not only that, you are going to get a whole bunch of goodies and stuff!
In a softening of that position, the US government began a regional public-relations campaign this week to fight the widespread belief in Central America that children and families are allowed to stay in the United States if they are caught by the Border Patrol.
I can't imagine why they would believe that -- unless they read the Boston Globe or something, because that is exactly what is happening.
And now they send Biden down there to stop what they started? C'mon!!
That belief has been fueled by migrant smugglers seeking more clients and by calls home from children and families who have been released by the thousands in recent years, with notices to appear in immigration court, because there are no facilities to hold them.
The administration said Friday it was opening detention centers to house families, though it did not give details.
Biden met in Guatemala City with President Otto Pérez Molina, who asked the United States to start a temporary work program for Guatemalan migrants and grant ‘‘temporary protected status’’ for Guatemalan migrants. Salvadorans and Hondurans can already apply for that status.
(Blog editor once again shakes his head; millions of Americans are dropping off unemployment rolls with no jobs in sight, and yet cheap foreign labor is being imported under temporary work programs)
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How much you want to bet the work visa that business wants will pass the Congre$$?
The $tatu$ quo, immigration-industrial complex will continue, only with more work visas issued.
More bad news for you kids:
"A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that most immigrant children who have become adults during their parents’ years-long wait to become legal permanent residents of the United States should go to the back of the line in their own wait for visas."
I'm sure they will be adjusting that decision momentarily.
Time to take off the gloves:
"US to review releases of criminal deportees" by Alicia A. Caldwell | Associated Press June 12, 2014
WASHINGTON — Government lawyers will review how the Obama administration releases some criminal immigrants facing deportation, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told Congress on Wednesday.
Yeah, Globe did a whole series on how murderers and rapists were let loose to do it again.
Johnson, the former top lawyer at the Pentagon, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that his agency’s lawyers will review federal policies, which he said were based on a Supreme Court ruling, that require the government to release criminal immigrants if the US can’t send them to their home country within six months.
Now top to the back of the line -- unless you want to join the military. Then we will front line you.
Johnson said he wants to know whether the government can hold them in immigration jails as threats to national security or public safety. Johnson said he wanted to be sure the government wasn’t construing the Supreme Court decision too narrowly.
Johnson also said he wants US officials with higher seniority to review and approve such releases in sensitive cases.
‘‘This is something, Senator, I’m very focused on,’’ Johnson told Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican. ‘‘I agree with your concerns.’’
Last month, the Obama administration acknowledged it has released more than 36,000 criminal immigrants living in the country illegally, including those accounting for 193 homicides and 426 sexual assaults.
In many cases — but not all of them — the US was required to release the immigrants while their deportation cases are pending.
The immigrants nearly all still face deportation and are required to check in with immigration authorities while their deportation cases are pending.
They are criminals.
Johnson previously told a House panel that he wanted a ‘‘deep understanding’’ of the circumstances that led to those releases.
He told senators at the hearing that an internal review of those releases is ongoing.
Grassley complained anew during the hearing that the administration was releasing criminals to the community with little or no oversight and asked Johnson to provide a fuller accounting to his office.
Justifies the need for more police, doesn't it?
Republican lawmakers have argued that the Obama administration isn’t properly enforcing immigration laws.
Impeachable. It's one of the basics. Protect the borders.
Several of them, including Grassley, have also blamed the administration’s enforcement practices for a recent spike in the number of child immigrants from Central America caught trying to cross the Mexican border without their parents.
Yeah, we know about them.
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Who you may not know about:
"US encouraging refugees to help human rights cases" by Eric Tucker | Associated Press May 13, 2014
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Ethiopian jail guard suspected of torturing and maiming political prisoners during that country’s ‘‘Red Terror’’ era came to the United States in 2004 under a false identity, seeking asylum and claiming he would be persecuted if he returned home.
Well, Ethiopia is a close ally and rarely talked about, so he must have been here with government sanction and was probably a U.S. asset.
He lived comfortably in Denver until 2011, when another Ethiopian who recognized him outside a cafe confronted him with the words ‘‘I think I know you.’’
That’s how Kefelegn Alemu Worku, convicted last year of identity theft and immigration fraud, came to the attention of federal authorities.
The government would like to see that happen more often.
A Justice Department lawyer recounted Worku’s case at a presentation for refugee advocates, part of an outreach to encourage the reporting of human-rights abusers hiding in plain sight.
There is a whole crowd of them in Washington D.C., down along Pennsylvania Avenue way.
The hope is to raise the profile of a relatively new prosecution unit and to make refugees comfortable with helping investigators — a major challenge in human-rights criminal cases.
Part of preventing atrocities ‘‘is accountability for what people have done,’’ said Teresa McHenry, chief of the department’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions section.
The cases are challenging, costly, and not always successful. Prosecutors must reconstruct crime scenes from other countries that are sometimes decades old. Witnesses may be scattered across the globe.
Yeah, forget about the fresh ones currently being committed by EUSrael.
Advocates say they wish prosecutors would bring more cases. Defense lawyers criticize the Justice Department for prosecuting their clients when others may be equally culpable and for using testimony they argue is not always credible.
‘‘There’s a whole layer of doubt in the reliability of witnesses who now, 20 years later, talk about this stuff,’’ said Mark Howard, who defended a woman convicted of fraudulently obtaining US citizenship by lying about her role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Related:
Remembering Rwanda
The Future of Rwanda
Rwanda Stories Stink
The Next Rwanda
That reminds me: C.A.R. has been absent from my paper for a long time.
UPDATE: The African country where compasses go haywire
I stand corrected.
He said he was troubled when prosecutors in New Hampshire brought in new witnesses and appeared to change their legal theory at the retrial at which his client, Beatrice Munyenyezi, was found guilty.
‘‘Twenty years of cultural change and cultural education about the genocide has influenced what they say,’’ he said.
The Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section was formed in 2010 from two units, including one that specialized in hunting down Nazi criminals. But as that population has dwindled, concerns have grown about refugees who lie on visa or asylum applications to enter the United States.
In 2011, President Obama called preventing mass atrocities a ‘‘core national security interest’’ and expanded the grounds on which immigrants could be denied entry, including involvement in slavery.
Is that why he has fomented so many with his covert and overt actions?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement created a war crimes center five years ago. And new or amended laws have expanded the Justice Department’s reach.
Congress in recent years has expanded the genocide statute to permit prosecution of defendants who are in the United States and outlawed the recruitment of child soldiers.
Our own Army can do that through public relations campaigns, but....
Prosecutors say they hope to take more advantage of those tools but generally bring immigration-related charges in cases where the crime occurred before the statutes were changed.
The human rights section has secured convictions of, among others, a former Guatemalan officer who hid his role in a 1982 massacre and a Bosnian who concealed his affiliation with a brigade that committed atrocities on Muslims.
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For some reason, U.S. and human rights seem contradictory these days.
Must be all the mass-murdering wars and torture based on lies that has soured me.
Sorry.