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The Obama administration plans to stop the influx of unaccompanied children crossing the border through increased deportation measures, President Obama announced on Sunday.
During a taped interview with ABCs George Stephanopoulos, Obama said that the children who have been streaming over the American border mostly from Mexico and the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras will only be provided care for as long as its legally mandated, and then will be sent back to their countries as soon as possible.
At the same time, the administration told the New York Times on Saturday that it would request Congress for $2 billion in emergency funds in order to stem the influx, such as stepping up deportation efforts and sending more immigration judges to South Texas.
Our message absolutely is dont send your children unaccompanied, on trains or through a bunch of smugglers, Obama explained to Stephanopoulos. We have to house these kids and take care of them until the machinery under current law allows us to send them back Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, theyll get sent back.
Under a 2002 human trafficking law signed by former President George Bush and reauthorized again in 2008 with additional protections, Mexican unaccompanied children apprehended crossing the border are automatically returned without formal deportation proceedings because the two countries share a border. But unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala cannot be sent back without going through the deportation process, since that law ensured that America wouldnt send kids back to a dangerous situation. (Honduras, for example, has experiences increased gang violence in 40 percent of its territory, while violence against females is surging in Guatemala.) Authorities must instead process these children and determine whether they have credible proof that they cannot return to their countries of origin. Central American children are given basic care like medical screenings in processing centers before being placed with relatives or foster care until they can appear in front of immigration judges.
'so called children' ?? I think abit of compassion is needed. The States isn't going to implode because of some kids coming in. People are having less babies anyway. These kids are just filling up the shortfall, and making the US look a little more Hispanic.
Obama is right. We need to send them home.
The world is a dangerous place. Tough shit.
really, you believe anything that comes from this man and administration
Look at Pelosi down there telling us how this will be good for us and them
she even wished she could take a couple home, but her place is probably too small so she'll just dump them on YOU
Wake up people this government has become our enemy
Agreed. Better to go after the traffickers and drug cartels.Obama Steps Up Efforts To Deport Unaccompanied Children Crossing The Border | ThinkProgress
The Obama administration plans to stop the influx of unaccompanied children crossing the border through increased deportation measures, President Obama announced on Sunday.
During a taped interview with ABCs George Stephanopoulos, Obama said that the children who have been streaming over the American border mostly from Mexico and the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras will only be provided care for as long as its legally mandated, and then will be sent back to their countries as soon as possible.
At the same time, the administration told the New York Times on Saturday that it would request Congress for $2 billion in emergency funds in order to stem the influx, such as stepping up deportation efforts and sending more immigration judges to South Texas.
Our message absolutely is dont send your children unaccompanied, on trains or through a bunch of smugglers, Obama explained to Stephanopoulos. We have to house these kids and take care of them until the machinery under current law allows us to send them back Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, theyll get sent back.
Under a 2002 human trafficking law signed by former President George Bush and reauthorized again in 2008 with additional protections, Mexican unaccompanied children apprehended crossing the border are automatically returned without formal deportation proceedings because the two countries share a border. But unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala cannot be sent back without going through the deportation process, since that law ensured that America wouldnt send kids back to a dangerous situation. (Honduras, for example, has experiences increased gang violence in 40 percent of its territory, while violence against females is surging in Guatemala.) Authorities must instead process these children and determine whether they have credible proof that they cannot return to their countries of origin. Central American children are given basic care like medical screenings in processing centers before being placed with relatives or foster care until they can appear in front of immigration judges.
RWs will continue to lie about this but what Obama is doing is just plain wrong. The US should not send children back to sex traffickers and the violence of drug cartels.
