Too bad TODAY'S Washington Post "exposé" wasn't
LAST YEAR'S Washington Post news... or better yet 2012's... or 2011's...
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Nearly a year before President Obama declared a
humanitarian crisis on the border, a team of experts arrived at the Fort Brown
patrol station in Brownsville, Tex., and discovered a makeshift transportation
depot for a deluge of foreign children.
Thirty Border Patrol agents were assigned in August 2013
to drive the children to off-site showers, wash their clothes and make them
sandwiches.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
As soon as those children were placed in temporary
shelters, more arrived.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
An average of 66 were apprehended each day on the border
and more than 24,000 cycled through Texas patrol stations in 2013.
* TODAY IS... JULY 20, 2014. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A
YEAR NOW!
In a 41-page report to the Department of Homeland
Security, the team from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) raised alarms
about the federal government’s capacity to manage a situation that was expected
to grow worse.
* LACK OF CAPACITY... LACK THEREOF... INCOMPETENCY...
(*SIGH*)
The researchers’ observations were among the warning
signs conveyed to the Obama administration over the past two years as a surge
of Central American minors has crossed into south Texas illegally.
* "WARNING SIGNS?" FOLKS... TO OBAMA THESE WERE
SIGNS HIS POLICIES WERE WORKING! THIS IS PART OF OBAMA'S "FUNDAMENTAL
CHANGE!"
More than 57,000 have entered the United States this
year, swamping federal resources and catching the government unprepared.
* SWAMPING FEDERAL RESOURCES...?!?!
* HOW'BOUT STATE RESOURCES? COUNTY RESOURCES? TOWN
RESOURCES? VILLAGES?
The administration did too little to heed those warnings,
according to interviews with former government officials, outside experts and
immigrant advocates, leading to an inadequate response that contributed to this
summer’s escalating crisis.
* BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT...!!! GEEZUS...! GET
THIS THROUGH YOUR THICK FRIGGIN' SKULLS, PEOPLE...!!!
Federal officials viewed the situation as a “local
problem,” said Victor Manjarrez Jr., a former Border Patrol station chief who
led the UTEP study. The research, conducted last year, was funded by the
Department of Homeland Security and published in March.
A broader crisis was “not on anyone’s radar,” Manjarrez
added, even though “it was pretty clear this number of kids was going to be the
new baseline.”
* A BORDER CRISIS HAS BEEN ON MY RADAR SINCE 1986!
* SERIOUSLY... FOLKS... REMEMBER WHEN BUSH, THE RINOs,
AND THE DEMOCRATS TRIED TO FORCE AMNESTY THROUGH LEGALLY - CONSTITUTIONALLY -
BACK BEFORE THE AGE OF OBAMA AND THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY...?!?! REMEMBER THE
OPPOSITION THAT STOPPED THEIR ATTEMPT? THAT OPPOSITION HAD THE BORDER CRISIS
"ON THEIR RADAR!"
Cecilia Muñoz, Obama’s domestic policy adviser, said the
administration and key agencies had made adjustments over time to deal with the
influx of children but then responded with urgency once federal officials
realized in May that the numbers would far exceed internal projections of
60,000 minors crossing the border in 2014.
Revised Border Patrol estimates now suggest the number
could reach 90,000 by the end of September.
* MEANING PERHAPS 100,000... PERHAPS MORE...
(*SIGH*)
Last month, Obama ordered an "emergency response"
overseen by the National Security Council and the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, and he asked Congress to approve $3.7 billion in emergency funds.
* WHAT "EMERGENCY RESPONSE?" ALLOWING THE
INVASION...?!?! (YES! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY'VE DONE! BUT NOT ONLY THAT...
THEY ENCOURAGED THE INVASION!)
* JUST A SIDE COMMENT, FOLKS: ISN'T IT AMAZING HOW EVEN
WHEN EXPOSING THE TRUTH, THE LIBERAL MEDIA CAN'T HELP BUT TO TRY AND PROVIDE AS
MUCH COVER AS POSSIBLE FOR THE DEMOCRATS... FOR THEIR FELLOW LEFTISTS?
“What happened this year was . . . off-the-charts
different,” Muñoz said. “It was not the same pattern. We assumed a significant
increase, but this was not the same kind of trend line.
* BECAUSE OF OBAMA'S POLICIES...!!! BECAUSE OF OBAMA'S EXTRA-CONSTITUTIONAL "EXECUTIVE ORDERS!" (WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE
CLOWNS TRYING TO FOOL...?!?!)
“This trend was more like a hockey stick, going up and up
and up,” Muñoz added. “Nobody could have predicted the scale of the increase we
saw this year. The minute we saw it, we responded in an aggressive way.”
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
* FOLKS... BROWSE THROUGH THE PAST FEW YEARS OF USUALLY
RIGHT. THEN TELL ME "NOBODY COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS."
But top officials at the White House and the State
Department had been warned repeatedly of the potential for a further explosion
in the number of migrant children since the crisis began escalating two years
ago, according to former federal officials and others familiar with internal
discussions. The White House was directly involved in efforts in early 2012 to
care for the children when it helped negotiate a temporary shelter at Lackland
Air Force Base in San Antonio.
(*THROWING MY ARMS WIDE; GAZING TOWARD HEAVEN*)
“There were warning signs, operational folks raising red
flags to high levels in terms of this being a potential issue,” said one former
senior federal law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to talk candidly about internal operations.
(The former official said the agencies primarily in
charge of border security, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, were “ringing alarm bells” within the administration.)
* FOLKS... WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE... WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE
FOR THE AMERICAN SHEEPLE TO WAKE UP?
Meanwhile, top officials focused much of their attention
on political battles, such as Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign and the push to
win congressional support for a broad immigration overhaul, that would have
been made more difficult with the addition of a high-profile border crisis.
“I don’t think they ignored this on purpose, but they
didn’t know what to do,” said Michelle Brané, director of migrant rights at the
Women’s Refugee Commission, which published a 2012 report highlighting the
influx of minors.
* OF COURSE YOU WON'T SAY THEY IGNORED THIS ON PURPOSE!
OBAMA'S POLICY GOALS ARE YOUR POLICY GOALS!
(*SNORT*)
“For whatever reason, there was hesitation to address the
root causes.
* AGAIN... FOLKS... UNDERSTAND: THIS IS HOW THE MEDIA
WORKS. THEY'RE LIKE LAWYERS. THEY PICK PEOPLE TO INTERVIEW WHO THEY KNOW BASICALLY
WHAT THEY'LL SAY! THE OBJECTIVE IS TO PROTECT OBAMA AS FAR AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE
WITHOUT MAKING IT TOO OBVIOUS YOU'RE IN THE TANK... SO... "COVER" MICHELLE
BRANE... LET HER DO IT FOR YOU!
(*ANOTHER SNORT*)
I think the administration was dealing with it at a
minimal scale, putting a Band-Aid on something they should have been thinking
about holistically.”
* MEANING OF COURSE THAT "THEY MUST HAVE HAD THE
BEST OF INTENTIONS..."
(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND*)
Until recently, the number of Central American children
crossing into the United States illegally was below 5,000 a year and was not
considered a major problem among the many issues federal agents were dealing
with at the Mexican border.
* AND YET...
In Texas and in Central America, officials viewed the
situation with greater alarm.
In April 2012, the first ladies of Mexico, Honduras and
Guatemala voiced their concerns at a conference in Washington on unaccompanied
minors. “The statistics are worrisome,” said Guatemala’s Rosa María Leal de
Pérez.
* SO... GUATEMALA'S ROSA MARIE LEAL DE PEREZ KNEW MORE
THAN... er... BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA... AND... THEN-SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY
RODHAM CLINTON?
(*SMIRK*)
A week later, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) wrote a
blistering letter to Obama, citing a 90% increase over the previous year in the
number unaccompanied minors arriving from Central America.
* RICK PERRY KNEW ABOUT IT... BUT BARACK OBAMA DIDN'T...
HILLARY CLINTON DIDN'T?
(*STILL SMIRKING*)
If the president failed “to take immediate action to
return these minors to their countries of origin and prevent and discourage
others from coming here, the federal government is perpetuating the problem,”
Perry wrote.
* THIS IS THE SPRING OF 2012... MORE THAN TWO YEARS
AGO...
“Every day of delay risks more lives. Every child allowed
to remain encourages hundreds more to attempt the journey.”
(*SILENCE*)
Inside the Obama administration, officials at the
Department of Homeland Security were focusing most of their efforts on adults.
Janet Napolitano, then secretary of homeland security, implored her
counterparts in Mexico to increase border security to reduce the flow. U.S.
immigration and border patrol officials created new processing centers,
according to current officials and others familiar with the issue.
* FOLKS... THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT WANTS THESE PEOPLE TO
GET ACROSS OUR BORDER! THEY ASSIST THESE PEOPLE IN GETTING ACROSS OUR BORDER!
DOES ANYONE BELIEVE NAPOLITANO WASN'T AWARE OF THIS...?!?! (DOES ANYONE BELIEVE
THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTERS AND EDITORS AREN'T AWARE OF THIS...?!?!)
The agency responsible for the children’s well-being was
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Before the Homeland Security
Department was created in 2002, the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization
Service had overseen the handling of minors caught at the border. But under an
agreement brokered after immigration rights groups pushed to transfer the
responsibility to a non-law-enforcement agency, the 2002 law gave the job to
HHS, starting the following year.
* FUCKIN' BUSH...
Furthermore, the 2008 anti-trafficking law required
Homeland Security to turn over unaccompanied minors from Central America to HHS
within 72 hours. That agency would attempt to place the children with family
members in the United States — or in temporary shelters — until they were
summoned to appear before an immigration judge.
(*SIGH*)
Numerous people familiar with the operations said HHS
struggled to fulfill its role as the number of children began to rise in 2012.
* SURPRISE, SURPRISE!
The agency rushed to set up temporary shelters at YMCAs,
churches and other community centers. In April 2012, a plan to house 200
children at unused dormitories at Lackland Air Force Base drew denunciations
from immigrant rights groups.
* FOLKS... THINK ABOUT HOW INSANE THIS IS! CHILDREN...
ADULTS... WHY WERE THEY ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTRY TO BEGIN WITH? WHY WERE THEY
NOT DEEMED MEXICO'S PROBLEM!? AFTER ALL... WE'RE TALKING EITHER MEXICANS OR
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICANS WHOM THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT ALLOWED TO TRANSVERSE THEIR
TERRITORY!
HHS officials defended their performance in 2012...
* OF COURSE THEY DID...
(*ROLLING MY EYES*)
...and as the crisis has escalated in recent months.
* NEVER LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE. (FOLKS... HHS
LOOKS UPON THIS WHO HUMAN TRAGEDY AS AN ENHANCED FUNDING OPPORTUNITY! WHAT DO
YOU SUPPOSE THEIR SHARE OF THE $3.7 BILLION OBAMA HAS REQUESTED COMES TO?)
Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for HHS’s Administration for
Children and Families, said the agency has responded by expanding shelter
capacity and reducing the amount of time children spend in HHS-funded shelters
before being matched with families or sponsors while their cases are pending.
“We have made progress in both areas, though significant work remains,” Wolfe
said.
* SO "PROGRESS" IS DELAYING DEPORTATION AND
INCREASING DEFICIT SPENDING...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
In 2011, HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement had a
budget of $149 million to shelter and care for the foreign children. By 2013,
it had grown to $376 million, and the Obama administration requested $495
million in its fiscal 2014 budget proposal.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.) said Democrats
recognized the urgency but feared that if they raised too much of a public
outcry, it would create political blowback for the Obama administration’s push
to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul.
House Republicans had refused to move forward on a
broader overhaul bill, which would include giving millions of illegal
immigrants a chance to gain legal status, arguing that Obama had failed to
secure the border.
* OBAMA HAS FAILED TO SECURE THE BORDER...!!!
Democrats worried that the escalating border crisis would
help Republicans make a case that the administration’s policies had failed,
Roybal-Allard said.
* NO...
* OBAMA'S POLICIES HAVE SUCCEEDED... IN HELPING TO
FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE AMERICA, THAT IS. WHAT DEMOCRATS "FEAR" IS THAT
MORE AND MORE AMERICANS ARE STARTING TO "GET" THAT OPEN BORDERS IS
WHAT OBAMA WANTS... THAT THIS IS NOT SIMPLY IDEOLOGICAL, BUT IT'S POLITICAL IN
THE SENSE THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE BETTING THE MORE BROWN FUTURE CITIZENS... THE
MORE BROWN FUTURE VOTERS... THE BETTER FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND SCREW THE
COST... SCREW POOR BLACK AND BROWN AMERICAN CITIZENS... SCREW POOR WHITE, YELLOW,
AND RED AMERICAN CITIZENS TOO IF THAT'S WHAT IT TAKE TO CREATE A HIGHLY
EXPLOITABLE AND SUBMISSIVE "WORKER BEE" POPULATION!
Obama, meanwhile, has ended his push for comprehensive
immigration legislation in Congress, announcing that he intends to use his
executive authority to amend the nation’s border laws.
* IN ENGLISH: OBAMA IS THREATENING TO ONCE AGAIN ACT AS
DICTATOR... ONCE AGAIN TRAMPLE UPON OUR CONSTITUTION... ONCE AGAIN BREAK THE
LAW SIMPLY BECAUSE WITH A DEMOCRATIC SENATE... HE CAN.
But the crisis in Texas has complicated that political
calculation, with Republicans contending that Obama’s weak enforcement helped
create the crisis in the first place.
* "REPUBLICANS CONTENDING..."
* FOLKS...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
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