Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is urging President Obama to put a stop to the "dangerous and unconscionable" practice of shipping illegal immigrants out of Texas and dumping them in her state.
After reports first surfaced last week that scores of illegal immigrants in Texas were being flown, bused and then abandoned out of state in Arizona and elsewhere, Brewer sent a scathing letter to the president posing a string of questions about the policy.
Urging the president ultimately to end the program, Brewer complained her administration was never notified by the federal government and only learned about the practice from the media.
But illegal immigrant traffic from Central America is rising once again.
According to one estimate, the number of unaccompanied children caught on the southern border has exploded -- from 6,500 in 2011 to an estimated 90,000 this year, and nearly 150,000 projected for next year.
The flood of illegal immigrants -- particularly children -- crossing into the U.S. along the southern border is at a "crisis" level, creating a humanitarian emergency that both immigration officials and lawmakers are putting at the feet of the Obama administration.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer called the overload a "crisis of the federal government's creation."
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who for years has been warning that the administration's easing of immigration enforcement would create a crisis along the border, said:
"President Obama is responsible for this calamity."
The surge in illegal immigrants jumping the U.S. border in recent weeks is almost entirely due to U.S. policy, according to an internal Border Patrol intelligence memo that says the immigrants are taking advantage of the catch-and-release system of enforcement.
The immigrants come seeking “permisos,” which apparently are the “Notices to appear” or NTAs, the legal documents given to non-Mexicans caught at the border that officially put them in deportation proceedings — but that also grant them at least a temporary entry to the interior of the U.S.
According to the memo, which was viewed by The Washington Times and mentioned at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, agents interviewed more than 200 non-Mexican immigrants on May 28, and 95 percent of them said they came because they’d heard they could get a “permiso,” or “free pass.”
“This information is apparently common knowledge in Central America and is spread by word of mouth, and international and local media,” the memo reads.
“A high percentage of the subjects interviewed stated their family members in the U.S. urged them to travel immediately, because the United States government was only issuing immigration ‘permisos’ until the end of June 2014."
The lawlessness of Barack Obama is breathtaking in its scope. Recently, Americans were shocked at the brazen illegality of his release of Taliban Muslim terrorists from Gitmo, or his heavy-handed use of the EPA to shut down coal plants.
This week we are seeing the greatest influx ever of illegals from Mexico, overwhelming state and federal agencies who must house them, feed them and deport them -- if they can even be deported.
Obama has basically stated, in deed if not in words, that the border is open, and our immigration laws will not be enforced. Instead of deporting the illegals, they are being put up at taxpayer costs in temporary housing at three military bases.
Two hundred thirty-thousand children are expected to be apprehended after crossing the border in the next two years, and those who avoid capture will number in the tens of thousands.
Obama and Holder have promised to provide these children with lawyers to represent them, so they can sue to stay in the country. Investors Business Daily reports that "this whole crisis is of the administration's making.
Its Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program two years ago prevented minors' deportation for two years, and now Obama has added two more years." Children are invading the border because they know they will not be deported -- Obama has said so.
There are reports that the federal government has been flying families from South Texas to Arizona and El Paso, Texas, and releasing them at bus stations! Are they supposed to deport themselves on the honor system?
What kind of insanity is this? I have to wonder what motivates this radical, Barack Obama? Does he realize that his presidency is a disaster, that he will be enshrined in the Hall of the Incompetent along side Jimmy Carter, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore?
Perhaps it is the knowledge of his own failure that inspires him to take revenge on those who have opposed him, like Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona, by dumping illegals in her state, instead of deporting them back to Mexico.
Maybe Obama realizes that he has only two more years to impose his radical doctrines on the nation, and has decided to push the envelope.GO READ THE WHOLE THING.