Taxpayers Funding Organic Garden, Petting Farm, Guitar Lessons for Illegal Immigrant Children

[Curmudgeon 227]

What have pictures of hippies got to do with the subject? Anyone? What hippies and what is the mysterious 'it'?

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Hippies, 0bola, and illegal aliens. It's WHAT'S for DINNER!

[Curmudgeon 227]

Do you have any facts to go along with your stale pictorial cliches? Why exactly is the Rep Sen upset? What's his factual evidence of wrong doing? Or is he like you simply upset that a sentence contains the words organic, garden, petting zoe and guitar lessons along with the dreaded words illegal immigrants?

[UncleBeer 244]

What exactly has this to do with President Obama?

For those who don't follow the news:

Number of Unaccompanied Children at the Border Tops 68,000 for Fiscal Year 2014

[Curmudgeon 227]

No facts then as to why this is an outrage? OK.

[UncleBeer 244]

No facts then as to why this is an outrage? OK.

You asked what the thread has to do with O'bama. Now you know (but you seem especially resistant to the written word today).

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

A California facility which houses illegal immigrant children reportedly boasts organic orchards, a small petting zoo, and guitar lessons – all courtesy of your tax dollars.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is demanding answers from Health and Human Services in a new letter following the revelation.

Documents show that HHS approved a grant for Southwest Key to fund a facility in El Cajon, Calif.

In a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Grassley wrote:

According to the grant documents, Southwest Key also told your department that the facility contained the following amenities:

“We have an organic orchard of orange, lemon, and grapefruit trees. As well as an Organic (sic) garden that supplements our kitchen with a wide variety of organic vegetables throughout the year. We have a small petting farm with ducks, chickens, and miniature ponies. We have also established an Acuaponics system where we are cultivating over 1000 Tilapia.”

Further, Southwest Key described the facility as, “…an architectural compliment to San Diego’s early ‘Spanish Colonial’ history.” Southwest Key also claimed that its location would allow UACs to “…enjoy the fruits of living in a large city, yet far enough where there is a suburban serenity to the facility.” Finally, Southwest Key informed HHS that the facility’s windows “provid(e) a splendid view of the beautiful California sunset.”

In your testimony just months after this grant was approved, you claimed that a large infusion of taxpayer dollars was necessary because, “…we don’t have enough beds and we don’t have sufficient resources to continue to add beds.” It is disturbing that HHS is funding such expensive facilities despite claiming to be unable to meet basic needs for UACs.

SOURCE

Link to full letter: http://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/judiciary/upload/Immigration%2C%2010-30-14%2C%20UAM%20housing%20contract%20follow%20up%20letter%20to%20Burwell.pdf

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

So... They're growing their own food, probably more cheaply than they could buy it, to supplement the food they're buying, which will also teach the people living there job skills and keep them used to working so that if any of them are approved to immigrate, they will not have spent months and months sitting there doing nothing. The ponies, yes, could definitely be seen as a luxury, but ducks and chickens can provide eggs and meat. Also, animals are proven to improve psychological function in people who are dealing with PTSD in many cases which some or all of the people in the facility may be suffering. Are animals not cheaper than intensive therapy for every man, woman and child?

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Duplicate thread

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/520825-taxpayers-funding-organic-garden-petting-farm-guitar-lessons-for-illegal-immigrant-children/?p=7317953

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

So... They're WE'RE growing their own food, probably more cheaply than they could buy it, to supplement the food they're buying, which will also teach the people living there job skills and keep them used to working so that if any of them are approved to immigrate, they will not have spent months and months sitting there doing nothing. The ponies, yes, could definitely be seen as a luxury, but ducks and chickens can provide eggs and meat. Also, animals are proven to improve psychological function in people who are dealing with PTSD in many cases which some or all of the people in the facility may be suffering. Are animals not cheaper than intensive therapy for every man, woman and child?

Fixxored for you.

As to the bold, sure... I have to buy my own without your tax dollars helping me to get thru the rough patches in life. If they just wanted ducks, I would foot the bill myself for several hundred and have them shipped to the UACs in their own country, which would have saved the trauma of a long walk.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Actually, not we. I'm not in the US yet. So They.

Also, I have to say, I am baffled by the callousness towards refugees by Americans, especially with everything being found presently during the search for those students.

If these people are approved for refugee status, it is better for the American economy and the American public health if they receive mental and physical stimulation during their present incarceration. That's just fact.

Or would you rather that these people were kept in unyielding cells with zero stimulation and came out even more broken than they went in?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

For anyone that can't figure out the relation between Organic food, sing in's and petting zoo's and Hippies.

Your ride is here.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

For anyone that can't figure out the relation between Organic food, sing in's and petting zoo's and Hippies.

Your ride is here.

As long as it's organic and reduces the carbon footprint of flatulant cows in the petting zoo, then it's okay to fire up a joint and sing kumbayah.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

As long as it's organic and reduces the carbon footprint of flatulant cows in the petting zoo, then it's okay to fire up a joint and sing kumbayah.

Organic products are nothing more than a good way to separate low info voters from their money and reduce the food output of farmers world wide

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Actually, not we. I'm not in the US yet. So They.

Also, I have to say, I am baffled by the callousness towards refugees by Americans, especially with everything being found presently during the search for those students.

If these people are approved for refugee status, it is better for the American economy and the American public health if they receive mental and physical stimulation during their present incarceration. That's just fact.

Or would you rather that these people were kept in unyielding cells with zero stimulation and came out even more broken than they went in?

No. I would RATHER they stayed in their own country and applied for a visa. Like all of us here did. What part of ILLEGAL ALIEN bothers me? The illegal part.