BY ERIC PIANIN, The Fiscal Times August 13, 2014 With Congress and the president on vacation and the situation in Iraq and Syria boiling over, the spotlight has shifted away from the humanitarian crisis along the Southwest border – and the plight of the tens of thousands of children from Central America who have illegally entered this country. More than 57,000 Central American children have arrived illegally in the United States so far this fiscal year, or double the number who made it to the U.S. southern border in fiscal 2013. The number of families arriving at the border, consisting mostly of mothers with infants and toddlers, has increased in similar fashion. As Congress and the Obama administration dickered this summer over what should be done to detain, process and in many cases deport this wave of humanity, the public was treated to horrifying reports and images of toddlers and young people being crammed into concrete jails and warehouses, sleeping on the floor as they awaited processing and transfer to other facilities. While there are signs that the worst of the warehousing and mistreatment of these young people has abated, there are still thousands who are languishing in Texas and Arizona jails and facilities awaiting the next step in their uncertain journey. “I think they [federal authorities] have put some processes in place and have probably begun to more efficiently move [the children] and move them out, quite frankly,” Wendy Feliz, communications director for the American Immigration Council, an advocacy group tracking the crisis along the border, said on Tuesday. “We’re hearing that [the influx of young immigrants] is slowing down, so I’m not sure how much warehousing of people there is at this point.” Many of these illegal immigrants who poured into the U.S. said they were fleeing gang violence and poverty in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, or were hoping to be reunited with parents or other family members already living in this country. Last month, National Public Radio reported that some of these children complained of being subjected to “abusive and inhumane treatment in U.S. Border Patrol stations in South Texas,” including frigid holding rooms known as “the ice box,” sleep deprivation, inadequate food and water and denial of medical attention. Saul Martinez, a 15-year-old from El Salvador, testified at a Congressional Progressive Caucus hearing in Washington last month that after he was caught crossing the Rio Grande into Texas, he was held with about 200 other children in an ice box for six days, according to an Arizona Republic report. Conditions were wretched and there was only one toilet for the 200 children. A 12-year-old girl from Honduras testified at the same hearing that she had been better treated by the human smugglers who brought her to this country than by the U.S. immigration authorities, according to the report. Gil Kerlikowske, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, did not dispute that some of the immigrant children had legitimate complaints about conditions in the holding cells, but said border agency officers had been overwhelmed by the influx of the youthful illegal immigrants. “When I looked at all the complaints, sleeping on a concrete floor is not anything any of us wanted to see, and to see a room the size of this office with maybe 40 or 50 kids lying on the floor covered in a blanket, waiting two and three and four days to be actually moved to a better facility, I know that we were overwhelmed,” he told NPR in late July. By law [for Doie's benefit], Central American children and their parents are entitled to a court hearing to appeal for asylum or special immigration status before being deported. Border Patrol agents are in charge of screening immigrant children and holding them for up to 72 hours before they must be transferred to the care of the Department of Health and Human Services – although in many cases the children have been held much longer. more . . .
Last month, National Public Radio reported that some of these children complained of being subjected to “abusive and inhumane treatment in U.S. Border Patrol stations in South Texas,” including frigid holding rooms known as “the ice box,” sleep deprivation, inadequate food and water and denial of medical attention. Saul Martinez, a 15-year-old from El Salvador, testified at a Congressional Progressive Caucus hearing in Washington last month that after he was caught crossing the Rio Grande into Texas, he was held with about 200 other children in an ice box for six days, according to an Arizona Republic report. Conditions were wretched and there was only one toilet for the 200 children. A 12-year-old girl from Honduras testified at the same hearing that she had been better treated by the human smugglers who brought her to this country than by the U.S. immigration authorities, according to the report. *********** This is rich. Come here illegally, then immediately start bitching about how the taxpayers are not doing enough for you. If it's so unpleasant, why not turn around and go home? They obviously don't understand that this is not a good time for El Presidente. He is playing golf and can't be concerned with their problems. He does care though.
Yeah, that was it. I suppose, rather than post articles that I think might be of interest, I could just post catch phrases, like flash cards. Then the righties could respond in the expected ways and make themselves feel better. Illegal Immigrants (rumble, rumble, rumble) Black Gangs (rumble, rumble, rumble) Welfare Cheats (r3) Barack Obama the Muslim Terrorist (r3) ObamaCare (r3) Iraq (r3) Iran (r3) Ukraine (r3) Golf (r3) And so on
Just like our home grown parasite class. Give them something... even give them a LOT... and what do they do? Piss-and-moan that you didn't give them more and sooner. My grandfather was right. NOBODY DESERVES ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR WHAT THEY EARN FOR THEMSELVES!!
She's the one who did the Freudian slip about "the government wanting to take over all the businesses". The Founders were right.... not everybody should have a vote. You should have to EARN the right to vote... and not be allowed to vote yourself the property of other citizens.