by Jack Lee
Why can’t Congress pass a bill to amend the law that is causing tens of thousands of foreign nationals to crash our Southern border? It doesn’t seem that complicated. Congress should be highly motivated to find a fix because we have a monumental human crisis on our hands of their making. It’s one that just necessitated appropriating and spending billions of dollars for more manpower on the border, including a callout of the National Guard.
In 2004 President George W. Bush signed a seemingly benign humanitarian sort of bipartisan bill into law (it was co-sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein-D) that transferred the deportation process of illegal immigrant minors to the Dept. of Heath and Human Services. This resulted in a loop hole and the current catch and release debacle that has flooded us with foreign nationals rushing across our Southern border.
The foreign nationals (minors) illegally entering were of course caught, given a court date to appear for a hearing on possible deportation, and then they just disappeared into that vast portion of our population that is now made up of other illegal foreign nationals, thus overwhelming the system on any number of levels from the courts to welfare to public safety.
Prior to this 2004 change the U.S. Border Patrol expeditiously handled the deportations. It’s now painfully obvious the 2004 law has created an unmanageable bureaucratic snafu and it’s overwhelmed our legal resources to the point we’re back to an open border for almost anyone trying to gain entry, including narco-terrorists. We just can’t handle this kind of traffic and Congress knows it only too well.
We need to return to that system immediately, but nobody in Congress is taking leadership and instead they are just appropriating more money to hire temporary guards for the Southern border.
Any representative could introduce a bill to amend the 2004 law, even our local freshman Congressman Doug LaMalfa could introduce an emergency bill to fix this problem. But, nobody is doing it and of course this includes the person who should be doing it, Speaker of the House, Republican John Boehner. It Boehner’s job to lead and the Constitution says it’s his prime responsibility to protect America from invasion and this includes the illegal entry of foreign nationals.
Obama is capable of issuing a temporary directive (executive order) too, but he’s showing
unusual restraint on this one. That’s odd given his past number of executive orders he issued in order to sidestep Congress and pursue his agenda whenever he felt the need. But, now in a crisis he’s got nothing to say? Very strange.
The question I pose, is Congress and the President selling us out for their own personal agenda and/or political advantage?
Republicans in Washington know American businesses need a low cost labor force and we need new contributors to keep Social Security afloat too. On the other side, the democrats in Washington know that new citizens build their ranks, they help them win elections and garner more power while advancing their socialist agenda. Left out of the equation is the American people. They see jobs and opportunity being diluted by a pool of cheap labor eager to undercut prevailing wages and benefits.
As a result, we see more stress placed on our limited social services that we (taxpayers) paid for to handle our emergencies, not the needs of foreign nationals who sneaked into the country. We are being victimized by the left and the right and even by illegals themselves.
Historians will look back on these days and it will be abundantly clear this type of inaction and resistance in Washington to the will of the American people brought about the creation many grass roots protests and reactionary forces such as The Tea Party, True the Vote and even Occupy Wall Street, to name but a few.
They will note how angry the public was and how deaf Washington was to their demands. In issue after issue, from bailouts to border control the public seethed with resentment and frustration as they watched their nation slide ever closer to the abyss. What is not quite so clear is, will those historians also write, “…and this is how America’s second and most bloody civil war began?”
Jack, just a couple of corrections to your article. The immigration law signed by Bush was on Dec. 23, 2008, not 2004. And it was to stop the flow of children from central and south America for sex trafficking. This is the law that is preventing the immediate return of the children from those countries. The children and adults from Mexico and Canada can be returned the same day.
It was Obama’s 2012 EO quasi “Dream Act,” that opened the flood gates that has caused the tens of thousands to come across our border.
NewsMax:
Child Immigrant Surge Rooted in Bid to Stop Sex Trafficking:
“The humanitarian crisis resulting from thousands of immigrant children crossing into the United States illegally every month has its origins in a little-known law that was passed in the dying days on the George W. Bush administration.
The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act, named after a 19th century abolitionist, was a bipartisan measure touted by evangelical groups and signed by President Bush on Dec. 23, 2008, that was meant to prevent sex trafficking, The New York Times reported.
The Obama administration claims that the law is the reason that it cannot just round up undocumented children, quickly put them on a bus and ship them back across the border, or fly them home directly to their own countries.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in fact, recently sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner, saying that Congress must make sure that the regulations of the trafficking victims act “are fully enforced, so that due process is provided to unaccompanied children and the safety and well-being of unaccompanied children is protected.”
But Obama recently decided to hold off for the time being in seeking new legal authority to send unaccompanied migrant kids back home faster, following criticism that the planned changes were too harsh.
However, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, an architect of the Wilberforce act, said the White House does not require more authority from Congress to ramp up the deportations process.
“That law already provides the administration with flexibility to accelerate the judicial process in times of crisis,” she said. “The administration should use that flexibility to speed up the system while still treating these children humanely, with compassion and respect.”
Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/US/child-immigrants-sex-trafficking-border-illegal/2014/07/08/id/581339#ixzz37ZT3YhFh
American Thinker:
Obama Had A DREAM:
“On July 5, the Los Angeles Times published an article by Brian Bennett. Using data obtained from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Bennett reported as follows.
“The increase has been dramatic. For most of the last decade, U.S. agents apprehended fewer than 4,000 unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras each year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures.
“The total jumped to 10,146 in fiscal year 2012. It doubled to 20,805 last fiscal year. It nearly doubled again, to 39,133, between last October and June 15 this year.”
President Obama issued the “DREAM Act” Executive Order in June 2012.
Here is some more data you might find interesting: the murder rates (per 100,000 population), from 2008 to 2012 (most recent data available).
•El Salvador: from 51.7 to 41.2 (a 20% drop).
•Guatemala: from 46.1 to 39.9 (a 13% drop).
•Honduras: from 60.8 to 90.4 (a 49% increase).
•U.S. (for comparison): 5.4 to 4.7 (a 13% drop).
Unless all those kids are coming from Honduras, the “violence in Central America” excuse looks like a non-starter.
And here are some murder rates (per 100,000) in selected U.S. cities in 2011.
•Camden, NJ: 60.6.
•New Orleans: 57.6.
•Flint, MI: 50.8.
•Detroit: 48.2.
•Anniston, AL: 47.4.
I report, you decide. What do you think did it – something Bush did in 2008, something Central America did recently, or something Obama did in 2012 and later?”
Read more – http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/07/obama_had_a_dream.html
Breitbart:
Obama 2012: Executive Order ‘DREAM Act’ Will Strengthen US Economy, Security:
“In June 2012, President Barack Obama announced he would be signing an executive order to stop the United States from deporting young illegal immigrants by claiming, “As long as I’m president I will not give up on this issue not only because its the do right thing to do for our economic, and CEO’s agree with me, not just because its the right thing to do for our security but because Its the right thing to do period.”
In that announcement at the White House Rose Garden, Obama was interrupted by Neil Munro, a reporter from the Daily Caller and Obama argued, “These young people are going to make extraordinary contribution” and added that they could “start a business that will create jobs for other folks.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/07/03/2012-Obama-Executive-Order-Dream-Act-Will-Strengthen-America-Economy-and-Security
Thanks Peggy, yes, 2008 I wasn’t using my readers and sometimes a 4 looks like an 8 to me if I am not careful. And it’s important to note exactly why Bush signed the law, I said it was done for humanitarian reasons, but you defined it much better.
In other words Jack, the 2008 Bush law to help the kids who were being trafficked for sex was undone by Obama’s 2012 EO.
Thousands of kids are arriving now with a name and a phone number and are being turned over to these individual without anyone checking on who they are.
If they survive the dangerous trip up here how many of these kids will end up in the sex trade is anyone’s guess at this time.
Here’s some good news.
After Raising Nearly $2 Million for Illegal Immigrant Children, Beck Plans to Help This Group of People Next:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/15/after-raising-nearly-2-million-for-illegal-immigrant-children-beck-plans-to-help-this-group-of-people-next/
Did anyone hear about this? The article was posted four days ago.
Illegal Immigrants Forcibly Occupy Small Texas Town:
(Sarita, Texas) – The Mexican border crisis has gone from bad to worse over night after a well-organized Hispanic militia sacked the small town of Sarita, Texas. Sarita is a quiet community, residing 90 miles west of the Gulf of Mexico. The city limits stretch for two miles along U.S. Route 77, and ending before Kingsville. The 2010 US Census states that the berg has a mere 284 residents. Sarita, TX has been recognized in the past for its leftist views. Business Insider ranked them “The Most Liberal City In Texas“. Some immigrants are said to have used this to their advantage, crossing the nearby border in the belief that Saritains would not report them to the Border Patrol. This tolerant mentality has proven to be a double edge sword, however, and one that could served to be their undoing.
In an interview with National Report, John Terrance, a lifelong resident of Sarita, told us the following, “Me and my wife are in our bedroom sleeping, right, and we were woken up by gun shots and loud yelling. You could hear a mob outside on the street, all speaking Spanish. They shouted “Viva La Raza!” while marching through our neighborhood. There must have been more than 100 of them, all carrying AK-47s, and wearing masks. Real scary looking guys. Groups of them started breaking into the houses on my block. Three of them raided our house as well. Told my wife and I to walk out to the street while holding us at gun point. Everyone was still in their pajamas, totally defenseless. A handful of the gang members then walked the lot of us to the edge of town. That’s when the one of them said, ” Let your President know that we are reclaiming what is rightfully ours. Sarita belongs to La Raza.” It was the most frightened I’d ever been in my life. I was so sure we were going to die last night…”
When questioned about any other casualties, Terrance told us ,”I’m not sure. There were lots of gun shots, and several of my neighbors are still missing. I fear the worse, though I didn’t see anyone physically die.”
See more at: http://nationalreport.net/illegal-immigrants-forcibly-occupy-small-texas-town/#sthash.iMm3ZF32.dpuf
Ignore my #3 post it was a hoax done by some sick individual.
HOAX – Sarita, Texas Under La Raza Seige:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImzMmYd3a64
Progress … we are making progress. Soon you will realize, right off, that somebody is yanking your chain.
#5 Libby:
If you had posted your name I would have known it wasn’t real.
Peggy, it serves you right for believing such a tall tale just because it reenforced your prejudices. Now we’re just waiting for you to realize that you’ve been getting scammed by hucksters like Glenn Beck for years.
^5 Peggy!
With all of the BS you, Libby and the rest of the progressives sling I don’t feel bad at all.
Did you hear about another computer’s hard drive going missing that was linked to Lerner? How’s that for an unbelievable lie, but your idiot in chief expects ALL of us to believe it.
OR, how about the man who said he’d have the most transparent presidency denying one of his team from appearing before a congressional committee. His excuse was laughable.
You progressives believe every lie this administration has thrown out for the past 5.5 years, so who’s getting scammed by a huckster. Suckers!!
^5 back at you Tina.
Yes. Obama did deliberately misinterpret the 2008 law. This “crisis” was further engineered by Obama in his delayed deportation (read never) and Dream Act executive actions. Following his policy of letting no crisis go to waste, Obama is now using children as human shields for his real intention to allow open borders. Any Republican who approves any part of Obama’s funding request is a collaborator, since we know Obama will distort and subvert any law passed by Congress.
Soaps, your points are well founded and I could not agree more. I think Obama has his own agenda in play and it’s nothing good for the American people. Time after time Obama has done incredible things that have only damaged America and this has been well documented. The question is why? Is it because of his incompetence or is he actually succeeding in his plan? Is this really about payback, about hate and he want’s to hurt America? The pattern of conduct and abuse would lend itself to the latter.
Hey! Peggy! Is it me telling leading you around by the nose with flagrantly bogus news stories?
It is not.
Libby: “Is it me telling leading you around by the nose with flagrantly bogus news stories? It is not.”
No…but it is some of your adolescent cohorts…and you, the prideful adolescent parent cheer them on. You know you do, right ater one of your pronouncements about eating vegetables and liking it.
They do…they think they are invisible!
#11 Libby: “Hey! Peggy! Is it me telling leading you around by the nose with flagrantly bogus news stories?”
You must have started early imbibing this morning since your sentence is incoherent.
You try all of the time to present your version of bogus news stories trumpeted by progressive commentators. Can’t call them news journalist since what they broadcast is full of lies or lies by omission.
If this hoax was done as a joke it was in very bad taste. Jokes are supposed to be funny. This was anything but. It was mean and designed to cause harm.
Look, I’ve apologized for posting it, but your rubbing my nose in it is uncalled for. Keep it up and believe me I’ll be going over EVERYTHING you post from now on.
In other words play nice Libby or shut up.