Obama’s Plans for $3.7 Billion Immigration Crisis Funds

[Zacha341]

From article:

Today’s funding request is separate from policy changes that the administration is also seeking to speed up the deportation of the children, most of whom are from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The White House sent a letter to Congressional leadership last week requesting the legal changes to make it easier to send them home.

According to a White House official, greater administrative authority as well as the additional resources will help make it more efficient and expeditious to process and return the children.

What remains unclear is how much faster this additional funding would make the process to send children back to their home countries. White House officials today declined to speculate on such timing, but the administration has said that most of the unaccompanied minors will likely be “sent home.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...-crisis-funds/

[oladub]

Obama says a lot of things. His expressed wish to send them home is not likely to happen either. 93% of these "children", who are 80% male and average age 14, have a destination address in their pockets; usually parents or other close relative. The Border Patrol, acting as taxpayer funded coyotes, delivers them but is not allowed to ask the recipient of their immigration status. The children will soon be enrolled in schools for which local taxpayers will be billed. Since these children arrive with no paperwork, they could show up at schools or job sites with a different name and the government will pretty much lose track of them. They might be identified as a protected class of Obama's dreamers. For the most part, they aren't going back.

Liberals blame Bush, as usual, because Bush signed a law giving Central American children the right to a court hearing. Even though they blame Bush for this law, liberals do not suggest reversing the law. Just flying them back would cost only 5-15% as much as keeping them but we can't. It costs an average of $8,000 for drug gangs to smuggle children from Central America into the hands of our Border Patrol. That is more spare cash than a lot of US citizens can come up with. Presumably, illegal aliens, often parents, working in the US supply the money. Here, in the US, parents can get in big trouble with Family Services for leaving their kids in a parked car and be labeled as bad parents. Yet, illegal aliens who put their children in the hands of drug gangs and expose their children to a journey much more dangerous than sitting in a parked car, are rewarded with the free transportation and delivery of their children by our government. They aren't going back.

I have a better idea for paying for this mess than passing Obama'a request to piddle away $3.7B. Heavily fine the employers of illegal aliens to finance all of these costs. Many Republicans will object to this of course. Cheating employers are the ones who profit from a supply of cheap foreign labor. Consider this a user tax. Our Border Patrol is too tied up changing diapers, doing paperwork, and delivering illegal alien children all over the Country to be minding the border. All of this costs money. But if a, for instance, $10,000 fine was assessed on each employer per incident of hiring an illegal alien, we could fund the Border Patrol as well as necessary health and educational expenses for these children as long as we keep them here. Pretty soon, I suspect, employers would be willing to pay more to hire unemployed US workers, some illegal aliens would drift back home, and other would be illegal aliens would be less likely to come here freeing up our Border patrol to do things like interdict gangs, drugs, and possibly terrorists with WMDs.

[Papasito]

Math :

Let's put the ridiculousness of $3.7 billion dollars into perspective.

$3,700,000,000.00 divided by 77,400,000,000 American households that have children in them would be $47.80 per household. That's a LOT OF FREAKING MONEY. I'm sure there's lots of legal US families that could use $50.00 towards school supplies.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_U...clude_children


The southern border to our country is a leaking wound that our Government throws our tax dollars at without fixing the problem.

People envision a nation's border as a protected zone, with guard towers and guns, strength and security. Ours is a joke. It's a wide open space, vulnerable for foreigners who carry disease http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...on-the-border/ and expect to be taken care of on our nation's dime. Sure, some folks are looking for "a better life", but even the Mexican Government hands out pamphlets telling their citizens what benefits they can qualify for when they illegally cross the border!
Any terrorist can cross the Rio. So can drug runners, human trafficers and any other piece of trash that can exploit someone else over the situation.

The Mexican government thinks the USA is a big fat joke. Even sending official military vehicles ACROSS the US border, providing armed escort for drug shipments.

Our immigration system needs fixed.
So much needs to be done.
Throwing money at this is not the answer.
It's an insult to every immigrant who went through the expensive and pain staking process of coming here legally.

I know many LEGAL immigrants, Latino ones in fact, who are OFFENDED that people go about coming here the wrong way, and are being given a pass for it. Even demanding special rights after doing it.

Here's some Russian border guards [[this is how a SUPERPOWER is supposed to look) :

It seems like the Russians are schooling our once-great nation on a lot of things lately.



Here's ours:

Also see : http://www.10news.com/news/questions...s-hospitalized