"Obama says he needs $4billion to capture, process and return the current batch of 50K."
Laws signed by Bush say we can't send them back without a hearing, and it also says they are entitled to have legal representation for those hearings. It also says they get food, water, toilets, and a place to sleep while in custody. All that costs money.
"the world's poor will continue to come and in increasingly greater numbers."
I expect they will try. Gonna be a lot of migrations behind climate change and energy poverty.
Harden your heart. It won't be pretty, but everybody can't fit in the lifeboat. Given the choice between letting all the swimmers capsize the boat and hitting them over the head with oars when they try, I'll go with the latter.
"The liberals have invited the worlds poor to come across our borders and gain entry and possible citizenship. "
In truth, Obama holds our national record for deportations. We are having a problem now on our side of the border because of conservatives; well, not really; it was bipartisan.
Just before leaving office, on Dec. 23, 2008, George W. Bush signed into law the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. This bipartisan measure, named for a 19th century British abolitionist, was aimed at extending and beefing up efforts to prevent and prosecute human trafficking and protect the victims of trafficking. More importantly, it described exactly how unaccompanied children crossing the border must be treated.
- For children coming from Mexico and Canada, countries with a border with the United States, a Border Patrol officer has the authority to determine whether the child is eligible to stay in the country. And because the child can be easily handed over to officials from his or her home country, the process can move very quickly.
- But for kids from Central America, where handing them back to authorities is more complicated, the
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- law dictates that Customs and Border Patrol must turn undocumented children over to the Department of Health and Human Services within 72 hours.
- HHS will then hold them humanely until they can be released to a “suitable family member” in the United States.
- And the law requires HHS to ensure “to the greatest extent practicable” that these detained children “have counsel to represent them in legal proceedings or matters” who can explain how to apply for asylum or find ways to stay in the country.
At the time, the changes were intended to prevent immigration officials from inadvertently sending kids back to pimps and drug violence. The bill passed with remarkable speed – introduced Dec. 9, 2008, passed the House and Senate on the 10th and signed into law 13 days later.
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