Illegals POUR into the US; Using Children!!!
- A San Antonio Air Force base, a California Navy base, and a makeshift detention center in Nogales, Arizona have become temporary shelters for children and youths caught crossing the border without their parents
- Republicans blame the Obama administration for the problem, citing a 2012 policy that relaxed deportations
- President Obama now concedes that it’s an ‘urgent humanitarian situation’ and is setting aside $2 million to pay lawyers for the children
- The US government expects as many as 80,000 child immigrants to illegally enter the US this year, a twelve-fold jump in just three years
- More than 33,000 have been picked up in Texas since October; the Arizona facility has ordered 2,000 mattresses to handle its overload
- ‘Instead of having an application of the immigration law, we are taking mothers and children and dumping them,’ another claimed
- A federal judge castigated the Obama administration in December, saying it was ‘completing the criminal mission’ of human traffickers
Obama instituted an immigration policy that the GOP says enticed tens of thousands of Central American children to cross America’s southern border illegally without any parents to guide them.
More than 33,000 have been picked up in Texas alone since October. The U.S. border patrol says its forces are overwhelmed, and the courts are bracing for a flood of immigration cases from children held in temporary detention facilities designed to handle a fraction of the numbers. Sanitation problems are beginning to rear their ugly heads.
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Obama rolled out a controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012, allowing many illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as minors to escape deportation for two years. The White House gave them another two-year window last week.
As a result, say some GOP leaders, America’s system for handling illegal immigration has been strained to the breaking point and is attracting hundreds of new illegal-immigrant children every day.
Compared to the year before Obama’s policy took effect, twelve times as many kids are coming north illegally this year.
And a makeshift detention center in Arizona holding 700 illegal immigrant children has ordered 2,000 mattresses to keep up with an expected influx in the coming months.
In a landmark court
ruling in December, a federal judge ruled against the Department of
Homeland Security for releasing a Salvadoran girl to her mother.
The mom had hired a smuggler to transport her daughter into the U.S., and was herself in the country illegally.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hansen wrote that ‘this court is quite concerned with the apparent policy of the Department of Homeland Security of completing the criminal mission of those who are violating the border security of the United States.’
‘The DHS,’ Hansen added, ‘should enforce the laws of the United States – not break them.’
The mom had hired a smuggler to transport her daughter into the U.S., and was herself in the country illegally.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hansen wrote that ‘this court is quite concerned with the apparent policy of the Department of Homeland Security of completing the criminal mission of those who are violating the border security of the United States.’
‘The DHS,’ Hansen added, ‘should enforce the laws of the United States – not break them.’
According to the Associated Press, toothbrushes and toothpaste hadn’t arrived yet and were expected Monday.
Hundreds of children had not bathed in days, and were taking turns using just four showers.
Tony Banegas, Honduras’ honorary consul in Phoenix, told the AP that there were 236 Honduran children there on Saturday, including an 8-year-old.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are beyond angry.
Leaked photos from the base, which were obtained by the Breitbart.com news blog, show hundreds of children holed up in crowded concrete rooms, many of them sleeping on the bare floor without blankets or pillows.
‘The recent surge of children and teenagers from Central America showing up at our southern border is an administration-made disaster,’ Virginia GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News last week.
‘Word has gotten out around the world about President Obama’s lax immigration enforcement policies and it has encouraged more individuals to come to the United States illegally,’ Goodlatte said in a statement.
‘Enforcement at the border and in the interior of the U.S.,’ not ‘another bureaucratic task force’ is needed, he claimed.
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, who sits on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Friday that ‘instead of having an application of the immigration law, we are taking mothers and children and dumping them … and violating the rule[s] over and over.’
At
the base, children are provided with three hot meals and two snacks a
day. They can call home twice a week. They have access to mental health
clinicians and on-site medical care
That number is twelve times what it was in 2011, the year before Obama announced his deferred-action plan.
The administration now estimates the holding facilities where the youngsters are being held cost taxpayers $252 per child per day, far more than the cost of a hotel and more than the children could expect to earn in two weeks of hard work picking crops, work that many were slated to do.
Facing the question of whether to deport the minors or play a game of catch-and-release, the administration has set aside $2 million to pay for their lawyers.
‘We’re taking a historic step to strengthen our justice system and protect the rights of the most vulnerable members of society,’ Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday in a statement.
‘How we treat those in need, particularly young people who must appear in immigration proceedings – many of whom are fleeing violence, persecution, abuse or trafficking – goes to the core of who we are as a nation.’
Obama’s ‘deferred action’ program for minors, which he announced in a fanfare-laden June 15, 2012 Rose Garden press conference, applies only to children who came to America before mid-2007.
‘It makes no sense to expel talented young people, who, for all intents and purposes, are Americans,’ the president said then.
Photos
leaked to U.S. and Mexican media outlets on Thursday show unaccompanied
children crammed into Border Patrol holding cells elsewhere, sleeping
on concrete floors
That’s what ‘coyotes,’ the smugglers who bring them in, are telling them to expect, according to Tania Chavez, a representative with La Union del Pueblo Entero, told KRGV-TV. in southern Texas.
The minors flooding over the border are often teenagers leaving behind poverty or violence in Mexico and other parts of Central America such as Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
With the president traveling in Europe last week, there have been no press briefings at the White House where questions might be put to outgoing press secretary Jay Carney.
But Obama met privately Monday morning with a group of nurses from across the country ‘to discuss the importance of passing commonsense immigration reform,’ according to the White House.
The Associated Press reported Monday that in a May 30 memo to the National Security Council’s transborder security directorate, Border Patrol Deputy Chief Ronald Vitiello warned that the influx of unexpected illegals has stretched the border patrol beyond reason.
But releasing them or reuniting them with family members in the United States would serve as ‘incentives to additional individuals to follow the same path.’
Republicans
angered about the situation point to a federal judge who castigated the
Obama administration for relaxing its immigration policy and
encouraging human traffickers.
In a December ruling, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hansen ripped the Department
of Homeland Security for releasing a Salvadoran girl to her mother – a
woman who had hired a smuggler to transport her daughter into the U.S.,
and was herself in the country illegally. of \Hansen wrote that ‘this court is quite concerned with the apparent policy of the Department of Homeland Security of completing the criminal mission of those who are violating the border security of the United States.’
‘The DHS,’ he added, ‘should enforce the laws of the United States – not break them.’
In a related case, the El Paso Times reported Monday that a Catholic charity was assisting 130 illegal immigrant children flown to El Paso, Texas.
Many were traveling with their parents when they were apprehended trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
One Guatemalan woman
named Maria, who enter the United States with her two children, told
the Times that she wanted to go to Tennessee to reunite with her sister.
Immigration officials, she said, had released her from custody and let her travel north.
‘Immigration told me, “You are free, you can leave”,’ she said.
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Congressman: Impeach Eric Holder for Allowing ‘Illegal Alien Smuggling’
June 9, 2014 12:21 pm
Rep. Paul Gosar is now seeking the attorney general’s ouster.
(US
News) – Eric Holder made history in 2009 as the first
African-American U.S. attorney general. If Rep. Paul Gosar has his way,
Holder can add another first to his bio: the first cabinet secretary to
be impeached.Gosar, R-Ariz., tells U.S. News he plans to either draft articles of impeachment or co-sponsor existing impeachment legislation introduced in November by Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas, which has 26 co-sponsors. He anticipates deciding between the two options next week.
Gosar is upset about a slew of issues, ranging from the Obama administration admittedly
“We’ve seen a wanton disrespect for the rule of law,” he says. “Very, very poor legal counsel is being given to the president by the attorney general.”
What pushed Gosar over the edge is something he calls “illegal alien smuggling.” He says Holder has failed to stop the Department of Homeland Security from releasing in Arizona people detained in Texas for residing in the U.S. without legal permission.
“Flooding our streets with illegal aliens who are being abandoned without resources is not just inhumane and cruel, it is a crime and federal law bans alien smuggling,” he said in a Thursday press release. “This is the most lawless administration in the history. … It starts at the top with Eric Holder and if the chief law enforcement officer of the United States is not going to enforce the laws of this land, then he should be impeached.”
Though Gosar’s advocacy of impeachment may be brushed off as an insignificant move from a backbencher, his participation in fact may seriously threaten the attorney general.
Gosar previously succeeded in recruiting a majority of House Republicans to demand Holder’s resignation amid a congressional probe into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Operation Fast and Furious, in which ATF agents allowed guns (later tied to murders) to be sold to Mexican gangs.
Each additional member’s demand was chronicled in the press, generating many months of frustration for Holder.
“You guys need to – you need to stop this. It’s not an organic thing that’s just happening. You guys are behind it,” a finger-pointing attorney general chided when a reporter asked in November 2011 about the resignation demands.
Gosar’s crusade culminated in the House voting 255-67 in June 2012 to find Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena for documents. Seventeen Democrats voted with all but two Republicans.
The waters calmed after President Barack Obama declared executive privilege over the Fast and Furious documents. Holder declined to enforce the House’s contempt citation against himself.
Gosar says he’s renewing the fight, and unlike demands for resignation, impeachment is something a House majority can act upon.
“My calls have been very, very successful in the Republican aspect and right now I’m working on the leadership in the House,” he says. “It’s a difficult move because it means we’re coming to the last vestiges of how we deal with how we solve these problems, but when people look at the facts, we can’t keep doing this, we have to be a law-abiding country.”
Aside from the contempt vote, Democrats have been shy about going after Holder. One exception came when Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., said in August 2013 he would be “very happy” if Holder resigned. Polistold U.S. News at the time he was “disappointed with his performance in several areas,” including Holder’s department’s prosecution of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, its aggressive pursuit of reporters and its foot-dragging on announcing whether recreational marijuana stores would be allowed to open in his state.
But Polis insisted he wasn’t demanding Holder’s resignation, just saying he would appreciate it.
Olson’s articles of impeachment against Holder cite his noncompliance with Fast and Furious subpoenas, his department’s treatment of reporters, its failure to prosecute IRS employees who targeted political groups and its alleged nonenforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act and the Controlled Substances Act.
“If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it invites contempt for the law, it invites every man to become a law unto himself, it invites anarchy,” Gosar says, quoting former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.
“There has to be consequences for bad actions,” he adds.
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