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Just wait until a couple of murders happen, compliments of gang members and druggies strolling over our borders.
Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, said that confirmed gang members in Mexico — including those from Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) — are coming into the country to be reunited with their families, National Review reported Friday.
“If he’s a confirmed gang member in his own country, why are we letting him in here? … I’ve heard people come in and say, ‘You’re going to let me go, just like you let my mother go, just like you let my sister go. You’re going to let me go as well, and the government’s going to take care of us,’” Mr. Cabrera told the magazine.
He said that the only way to solve the problem was to implement harsher restrictions on who can be allowed to cross.
“Until we start mandatory detentions, mandatory removals, I don’t think anything is going to change. As a matter of fact, I think it’s going to get worse,” he said, National Review reported.
Other Border Patrol officials said that officers must treat minors with gang-affiliated tattoos the same as anybody else wishing to cross the border.
Critics note that young migrants are heading north not just to flee deteriorating economic and security conditions in Central America, but also lured by rumors that they will be granted permisos, permission to stay legally. They say these rumors originated with Obama's executive order creating Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, that allowed children who had immigrated illegally to delay deportation. "We are essentially incentivizing the flow of this population by not returning the unaccompanied juveniles to their countries of origins quickly. Indeed, once they arrive in the United States, we try to find sponsors for them in this country, and they effectively stay here permanently," Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said on the House floor this week.
Contrary to statements from the Obama Administration, saying the surge is of mostly women and children trying to escape violence in Central America, the pictures show a pretty even mix of women, children, and working-aged men who have been detained by Border Patrol.
Rep. Cuellar's office interviewed some of the unaccompanied minors who are in the Border Patrol's detention facility, and while some cite violence as their reason for coming, many others also say they came to study and/or to be reunited with family living in the United States. Several media reports also indicate that a source of the influx of illegal border crossers is due to the Administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy and its unwillingness to enforce immigration laws.
originally posted by: musicismagic
I've been out of the States for a long time. Can someone tell what the f.. happened to America during this all this time. Looks like an invasion that is being wanted/approved for some reason. Maybe future population growth since births maybe down and with fewer kids, any form or type of increase population is welcome. But as I recall, health checkups were required and you'd have to pass them to get legal permanent residency. Hmm...
originally posted by: Night Star
originally posted by: musicismagic
I've been out of the States for a long time. Can someone tell what the f.. happened to America during this all this time. Looks like an invasion that is being wanted/approved for some reason. Maybe future population growth since births maybe down and with fewer kids, any form or type of increase population is welcome. But as I recall, health checkups were required and you'd have to pass them to get legal permanent residency. Hmm...
It has been an invasion for a long time. Some of the people coming through, and it isn't just children, have infectious diseases. The working age teens and adults will not be able to find jobs as we have millions of un-employed people. This will put a drain on the system. As it is, our own citizens are waiting on a list that is years long just to get cheap housing for their families and illegals are already taken care of. I suppose the new influx will come first as well.
160,000--- And it's only June--- What the hell is going on--- that all these people suddenly feel like now is the right time to come to the States?
originally posted by: TonyS
a reply to: jmdewey60
Oh..........good...........grief.
you've got to be kidding.
originally posted by: kruphix
You do know that without illegal immigrant workers our agriculture industry will collapse...right?
There are many laws that aren't enforced, many laws that are outdated and aren't applicable in today's world. Our outdated immigration system is one of them.
Don't talk about "law is law" when all of us break many laws every single day.
originally posted by: Night Star
They say that in their own Country, in the news, they were telling people to come now and that they would be taken care of and would not get deported. Our own government has catered to illegals for years. It's like an open door.
So you are against a worker visa program where all immigrant workers would need to apply and be sponsored by an employer for a set period of time? Also, do we ne 25 million pickers?
What part that they are not an American do you not understand? BTW I do not break laws every single day, and I pay my fines when I do. It is a red herring fallacy to suggest that going one mile over the speed limit is the same as someone entering our country illegally, using our limited social programs, our schools etc as the same since they are both illegal.
Even when we remove the bad elements and just focus on those who are here trying to make an honest living they still cost the tax payer a lot. Look at California, they are going broke and a big part is the millions of illegal aliens living there.
The Senate will now vote on this “border surge” amendment on Wednesday. The Corker-Hoeven amendment adds about 20,000 border patrol agents, over 700 additional miles of border fence, a national E-verify system and an entry/exit system to track those who enter the U.S. on a temporary basis. Senators like Florida Republican Marco Rubio had insisted many in the Republican party would not support a bill without these added measures – which come with an additional $5 billion dollar price tag. But Rubio and other Senators insist this is necessary to ensure the reform bill works to reduce undocumented immigration and improve safety while creating a pathway to legalization for the nation’s 11 million undocumented.
This title addresses permanent legal status in the United States. It creates a Registered Provisional Immigrant program for undocumented immigrants and incorporates versions of the DREAM Act and AgJOBS, for undocumented young people brought to the U.S. as children and for agricultural workers, respectively. It provides sufficient visas to erase the current backlog of family and employment-based visa applicants in the next 7 years, eliminates or changes some family-based immigration programs, and creates a new merit system that is based on points accrued through education, employment, and family ties.
It is no coincidence that the year 1994 saw not only passage of NAFTA, but the beginning of border wall construction. And it is no coincidence that the border surge is being considered at the same time the TPP is being negotiated. Also closely related is the proliferation of private prisons, especially immigration detention centers. Militarized borders and new prisons help manage social disruptions as well as political dissent resulting from FTAs. Criminalization of the undocumented creates a sub-class of workers denied basic labor rights while forced to work long hours for low wages. The ones who benefit are transnational corporations and agribusinesses.
originally posted by: kruphix
No, I am for anything that makes it easier for migrant workers to come here. Because I realize that our economy depends on them.
But I thought the "law is the law"???
Are you now saying that breaking some laws are ok, but breaking others aren't???
That's fine...I agree with you actually...and I think crossing an imaginary line in order to find work to feed your family is one of those "laws" that are just fine to break.
If you want to fix the issue of them being illegal...then the only solution that is even close to being efficient is to give them all amnesty, and then make it extremely easy for those who want to come here to work to do so. I'm talking about a 30 minute check-in process at the border. Enter them in the system, give them a SS# and print the card off right there...we have the technology to do it.
But people really don't want to solve the problem of them being here "illegally"...their problem is that they are here at all. The "illegal" argument is just a convenient one for them to have so they don't look like bigots.