Record number of unaccompanied minors set to flood southern border

[lostinblue 1,989]

Record number of unaccompanied minors set to flood southern border

Homeland Security officials are on track to apprehend a record number of unaccompanied minors trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico, the Senate Homeland Security chairman suggested on Tuesday.

From the beginning of the fiscal year, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told the committee, officials have apprehended 23,533 unaccompanied minors trying to cross the border.

"I think we're possibly beyond crisis proportions here," said Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. "Four months and we're up to 23,000 already… 2014 was a crisis, right now I think we're running ahead of 2014 levels," Johnson added.

"If we maintain this pace, we'll have 77,000 in 2016," he said. The record was set in 2014, when Customs and Border Protection reported a total of 68,541 were apprehended at the border.

The Homeland Security head said his agency is nonetheless making progress, saying that 2015 was a "pretty good year." His agency apprehended just under 30,000 unaccompanied minors last year, though there was a surge late in the season.

"I want to compare numbers with you," the secretary said. "We had a pretty good year, it was down significantly from FY14 in terms of total apprehensions along the southwest border.

The Wisconsin senator replied that he stood by his concern. "Again, the point being … 2014 was a crisis, right now I think we're running ahead of 2014 levels from the numbers I'm getting," he said.

Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., helpfully closed out the exchange with an interjection of his own. "I just ran the numbers quickly, shorthand on the back of an envelope.… We'd be looking at about 57,000," Carper estimated.

The exchange follows a report by the Center for Immigration Studies earlier this week that estimated a record 61 million immigrants and American-born children living in the United States, including 15.7 million doing so illegally

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/senator-record-number-of-minors-set-to-flood-the-southern-border/article/2585215

[smilesammich 10,727]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/center-for-immigration-studies

[lostinblue 1,989]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/center-for-immigration-studies

[Boiler 45,411]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/center-for-immigration-studies

I can so see this getting a lot of use. Sad there is not a way to auto post it when the usual suspects get involved.

[smilesammich 10,727]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/center-for-immigration-studies

since you're an expert, shall i hug myself?

[smilesammich 10,727]

I can so see this getting a lot of use. Sad there is not a way to auto post it when the usual suspects get involved.

i mean, what harm could come from white nationalists supporting the GOP candidate which in turn backs the white nationalist conservatives' propaganda machine a la CIS???? hows a white girl supposed to get ahead huh?!?!

[Jacque67 7,328]

Exciting news for American paedos??

[smilesammich 10,727]

Exciting news for American paedos??

[ExPatty 502]

I clicked that link, didn't read the story. The problem with blaming anti-immigration on racism alone is that it's only part of the story. Of course white nationalists hate non-whites and will be opposed to immigration, but Mexico hates illegal immigration from countries south of its border, and they all look the same. I've always been against illegal immigration to the US (and it's primarily from south of the border) not because they are brown but because I think they are bad for the economy. People who are badly educated are more likely a drag on the economy than those who are good. If engineers and doctors want to come from india and china to fill positions that are legitimately short on labor in the US I completely support that, and those people look less like white americans than mexicans do.

Both parties have massive numbers of people who want to curb illegal immigration and put a stop to it, they can't all be because of white nationalism. And if it is, those WNs are pretty crafty because I've never met one, and the only website off the top of my head I can think of is stormfront, only because people make fun of it.

[smilesammich 10,727]

I clicked that link, didn't read the story. The problem with blaming anti-immigration on racism alone is that it's only part of the story. Of course white nationalists hate non-whites and will be opposed to immigration, but Mexico hates illegal immigration from countries south of its border, and they all look the same.

ouch.

[Dakine10 5,452]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/center-for-immigration-studies

Don't take up all of March.

Set aside 7 days for oversensitive whitey awareness week. Not sure a week is enough though, but it's a start. There are obviously a lot of issues that need to be resolved.

[Jacque67 7,328]

I clicked that link, didn't read the story. The problem with blaming anti-immigration on racism alone is that it's only part of the story. Of course white nationalists hate non-whites and will be opposed to immigration, but Mexico hates illegal immigration from countries south of its border, and they all look the same. I've always been against illegal immigration to the US (and it's primarily from south of the border) not because they are brown but because I think they are bad for the economy. People who are badly educated are more likely a drag on the economy than those who are good. If engineers and doctors want to come from india and china to fill positions that are legitimately short on labor in the US I completely support that, and those people look less like white americans than mexicans do.

Both parties have massive numbers of people who want to curb illegal immigration and put a stop to it, they can't all be because of white nationalism. And if it is, those WNs are pretty crafty because I've never met one, and the only website off the top of my head I can think of is stormfront, only because people make fun of it.

Wowser.

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Canada is lifting visa restrictions for mexicans

http://fusion.net/story/236131/canada-to-lift-visa-requirements-for-mexicans/

Maybe the Mexicans can just move up to Canada to take advantage of the free welfare there

[smilesammich 10,727]

the ignorance in this thread is thick.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Canada is lifting visa restrictions for mexicans

http://fusion.net/story/236131/canada-to-lift-visa-requirements-for-mexicans/

Maybe the Mexicans can just move up to Canada to take advantage of the free welfare there

Trudeau's undoing Harper's shenanigans obviously. More to come, I'm sure. That was the platform he ran on.