Origanalist
06-09-2014, 08:51 PM
"It is a permit to enter the United States."
That is what Edilberto Lanza Mejia, a 26-year-old from Honduras, told The Houston Chronicle about the documents given to him by U.S. immigration official before they released him at a bus station in McAllen, Texas.
Lanza had crossed the border form Mexico five days earlier along with his wife and three children. They had been in a cell ever since waiting for the Border Patrol to process them. But with groups of 80 to 90 people asking border agents to arrest them everyday, the system has been overwhelmed. There is just no place to house everyone until their case can be adjudicated so the Border Patrol is simply letting them go with a promise that they voluntarily report to immigration officials weeks later.
"Within hours of arriving," the Chronicle reports, "Lanza borrowed a cellphone in the bus terminal. His wife called her sister in North Carolina, who paid for their fare to Greenville. They had tickets for the last bus out that night, leaving at 11:30."
The Obama administration claims that this flood of families coming to Texas is being caused by recent violence in Central American countries. But Central America is no stranger to turmoil. The flow of minors coming to the United States illegally has been pretty steady for over a decade.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that, "During the decade preceding fiscal year 2012, the federal government agency tasked with caring for unaccompanied minors who cross the border illegally dealt with an average of 7,000 to 8,000 cases a year... In fiscal year 2011, the number was 6,560. The following year, however, the number jumped to 13,625. This fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, 2014, federal officials are estimating that the number could be 80,000, according to an internal memo cited by The New York Times."
Hmmm... What happened in 2012 that would cause the number of unaccompanied minors who illegally cross the border to more than double that year and then increase exponentially after that? From CSM:
At issue is Mr. Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which in 2012 allowed some undocumented immigrants who came to America as minors to defer deportation for two years. Last week, the administration announced guidelines for how these immigrants could defer deportation for a further two years.
Of course, nothing was ever temporary about the DACA program. The two year time limit Obama created from thin air made no sense logically or morally at the time, and it makes no more sense today. That is why the news that he re-upped the status for another two years made such little news last week. Everybody expected it.
But just as the time limits for "temporary status" through DACA make no logical, moral, or practical, sense, none of the other arbitrary lines in the program do either. PBS NewsHour‘s Jeffrey Brown did a great job of pressing President Obama’s director of domestic policy, Cecilia Munoz about this when DACA was first announced:
continued...http://townhall.com/tipsheet/conncarroll/2014/06/09/central-america-calls-bs-on-obamas-amnesty-lie-n1849425
That is what Edilberto Lanza Mejia, a 26-year-old from Honduras, told The Houston Chronicle about the documents given to him by U.S. immigration official before they released him at a bus station in McAllen, Texas.
Lanza had crossed the border form Mexico five days earlier along with his wife and three children. They had been in a cell ever since waiting for the Border Patrol to process them. But with groups of 80 to 90 people asking border agents to arrest them everyday, the system has been overwhelmed. There is just no place to house everyone until their case can be adjudicated so the Border Patrol is simply letting them go with a promise that they voluntarily report to immigration officials weeks later.
"Within hours of arriving," the Chronicle reports, "Lanza borrowed a cellphone in the bus terminal. His wife called her sister in North Carolina, who paid for their fare to Greenville. They had tickets for the last bus out that night, leaving at 11:30."
The Obama administration claims that this flood of families coming to Texas is being caused by recent violence in Central American countries. But Central America is no stranger to turmoil. The flow of minors coming to the United States illegally has been pretty steady for over a decade.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that, "During the decade preceding fiscal year 2012, the federal government agency tasked with caring for unaccompanied minors who cross the border illegally dealt with an average of 7,000 to 8,000 cases a year... In fiscal year 2011, the number was 6,560. The following year, however, the number jumped to 13,625. This fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, 2014, federal officials are estimating that the number could be 80,000, according to an internal memo cited by The New York Times."
Hmmm... What happened in 2012 that would cause the number of unaccompanied minors who illegally cross the border to more than double that year and then increase exponentially after that? From CSM:
At issue is Mr. Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which in 2012 allowed some undocumented immigrants who came to America as minors to defer deportation for two years. Last week, the administration announced guidelines for how these immigrants could defer deportation for a further two years.
Of course, nothing was ever temporary about the DACA program. The two year time limit Obama created from thin air made no sense logically or morally at the time, and it makes no more sense today. That is why the news that he re-upped the status for another two years made such little news last week. Everybody expected it.
But just as the time limits for "temporary status" through DACA make no logical, moral, or practical, sense, none of the other arbitrary lines in the program do either. PBS NewsHour‘s Jeffrey Brown did a great job of pressing President Obama’s director of domestic policy, Cecilia Munoz about this when DACA was first announced:
continued...http://townhall.com/tipsheet/conncarroll/2014/06/09/central-america-calls-bs-on-obamas-amnesty-lie-n1849425