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Terrific: Feds apparently keeping child illegals in cages



Terrific: Feds apparently keeping child illegals in cages, Disaster
Congressman Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, is not only rejecting the White House's nonsense about its policies having nothing to do with the massive influx of children streaming across the border. He's also outing the administration's horrifying method of dealing with the children, which apparently is to herd them into cages.
See the photo above. Pretty jarring, isn't it? I suppose a few of you might argue that, hey, they broke the law and this what you do with lawbreakers. The rest of us might reply that they're children - some of them as young as 5 - and this doesn't look like incarceration. It looks like a damn concentration camp. By the way, the mother of one young illegal told Univision the other day what anyone with an ounce of common sense can figure out. Via the Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal:
While the White House continues to insist the influx of children from Central America has nothing to do with its immigration policies, mounting evidence is proving otherwise. In addition to leaked internal memos that pin the administration’s lax enforcement laws as responsible for the recent humanitarian crisis in Texas and Arizona, Jorge Ramos, anchor of the Spanish-language television network Univision, further challenged the Obama narrative that the surge is a direct response to violence and poverty in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.

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In an interview with a Marlen Mena Bautista, a Honduran mother whose 15-year-old son recently crossed the border illegally, Ramos found that children are instead coming to the United States because of a widespread perception that they won’t be deported. RAMOS: Do you have the perception that once children cross the border to the United States, they won’t be deported? BAUTISTA: That is what is being said in Central America, almost all the time. Almost everyone is saying it. RAMOS: So what is being said in Central America is that they don’t deport children. So once they enter this country, they stay in this country? BAUTISTA: Yes. I imagine that is why he decided to come. Responsible for promoting the message that the current influx is a result of poverty and violence in Central America is Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. Munoz joined Ramos for an interview, refuting his claim that in Central America there is an impression that a child who crosses the border to the United States is never going to be deported. “That is not so,” said Munoz. “[The children] are in deportation proceedings, and many of them will have to go back,” she added. But when asked how many have actually been sent back, Munoz explains that it is a "lengthy process." There's a big difference between "deportion proceedings" Obama-style and actual deportation. Besides, a Homeland Security spokesman told CNN a week ago that deportation in most of these cases is basically impossible:
According to CNN, the federal transport of “unaccompanied alien children,” ages 5 to 17, is part of a larger resettlement process, as Homeland Security and Border Patrol facilities in Texas have become “overwhelmed” by the recent influx of illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico and Central America. From the bus stops in Tucson and Phoenix, immigrants are instructed to report to the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office within 15 days of arrival and are then sent to various destinations for holding. Photos and videos continue to surface on social media and news outlets depicting crowded, ill-equipped U.S. holding facilities. “The situation with the kids is that they came by themselves, they have no relatives here, and the consulates can’t keep up,” a Homeland Security spokesman told CNN. “They’re in limbo. There’s no one (back home) to deport them to.”
Cuellar put it bluntly in telling Univision the young illegals are not going anywhere, and are going to be "part of the United States." I'll leave to others the speculation that this is all a plot to sign up a new mass of Democrat voters. But what we can say with certainty is that the Obama Administration was completely unprepared for this situation - part of a pattern, no? - and no one is taking seriously its familiar claim that its policies had nothing to do with the problem


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