Chief Tango sends us a link to an article from the Washington Post in which Josh Hicks wonders where the Obama Administration has sequestered the tens of thousands of Immigrants flooding across our Southern border.
The Obama administration has estimated that the U.S. will pick up 60,000 unaccompanied children at the Southwest border by the end of September, although revised Border Patrol estimates now put the figure closer to 90,000. Either way, the numbers have been doubling since at least 2012…
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In Congress, GOP lawmakers have questioned the administration’s decision to house thousands of the unaccompanied children at military bases. The plan has been in effect since May, but Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel expanded it last week by approving a request to house an additional 5,000 children, in addition to the 3,600 already already held at military facilities.
Oklahoma’s congressional delegation, consisting of seven Republicans, called on the administration to reconsider the plan on Monday, saying it could impede the mission of Fort Sill, an Army base in the state.
The administration is also holding children at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland in Texas and at Naval Base Ventura County-Port Hueneme in California, according to the HHS fact sheet.
We thought the 90’s were bad when the military held the hands of third world shit holes while they joined the rest of the world, now we’ve gone to opening day care centers for the third world in our own country. I guess the Joint Training Center deployments will be cycling around and the troops will train in diaper-changing and formula preparation.
Democrat governors like Hickenlooper and O’Malley are turning away illegals, sensing how unpopular that would be among voters, while Hagel keeps taking on more and more. I’ve read that the invasion was started by coyotes trying to drum business, and the Obama Administration is more than happy to make the rumor come true so the coyotes can get paid.
Pew Research says that the number of children younger than 12 years old who are apprehended at the border has increased 117% since last year.
The Associated Press reports that the feds arrested 192 people yesterday who were involved in coyote business;
The arrests, which took place under a crackdown called “Operation Coyote,” took place over the last month and were part of a 90-day effort targeting smuggling groups.
The White House has complained that smugglers are exploiting U.S. policies that, in practice, allow Central American kids to stay for years or indefinitely once they arrive, and it has proposed increasing penalties for smugglers.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it also took into custody 501 immigrants in the country illegally. It said it seized the money from 228 bank accounts held by suspected human- and drug-smuggling groups.
Good start, but it’s all just a drop in the bucket if you’re not turning them back at the border.
