By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--June 17, 2014
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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.
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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