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NYTimes Editorial:

The surge of desperate young migrants across the southwest border has the Obama administration scrambling to respond. It was clearly ill-prepared for a problem that grew steadily for years before exploding this year, with more than 47,000 unaccompanied children caught at the border since October.

It is past time for excuses, and too soon for the post-mortem. The administration needs to mount a sustained surge of its own, of humanitarian care, shelter and legal assistance for children who have faced horrific traumas in fleeing violence in their home countries, mainly Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. As Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. meets this week with officials in those countries, they should all commit to making it safe for would-be migrants to stay home, by reducing the murders and gang crimes that feed the exodus. Congress should meanwhile approve the administration’s $1.4 billion request to handle the emergency on this side of the border, though more will surely be needed to assure health, safety and due process for these young migrants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/opinion/immigrant-children-need-safety-shelter-and-lawyers.html
 
New York Times news pages:

Migrants Flow in South Texas, as Do Rumors

Exhausted and dazed, hundreds of Central American migrants, mainly women with small children, come to the bus station of this border city every day now, spilling into a church next door that has opened its doors. Having crossed into the United States illegally, the new arrivals are often grimy and famished. In the church, they eat, bathe and sleep, changing into donated shoes and clothes.

With no immigration detention site equipped for women with children in the area — the closest one, in Pennsylvania, is overbooked — they are freed by the Border Patrol with a bus ticket to travel to where they have relatives in this country, and an order to appear in immigration court in 30 days.

They are among at least 30,000 migrants released this year, border officials and federal lawmakers said, amid a surge of illegal crossings in the Rio Grande Valley.

While most men are held and processed quickly for deportation, border authorities struggling to manage the influx have been releasing pregnant women and parents with young children, allowing them to join family members living here and issuing them a deportation hearing notice. Migrants have sent word back home they received a “permit” to remain at least temporarily in the United States, feeding rumors along migrant routes and spurring others to embark on the long journey.

“I heard in Guatemala that people were caught by immigration, but then they let them go and gave them a permit,” said Carmen Ávila, 26, who is seven months pregnant and came with her 4-year-old son, Jostyn. “The word got around and that’s why so many people are coming.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/us/migrants-flow-in-south-texas-as-do-rumors.html?hpw&rref=us
 
NFL-Solomon said:
This is a direct result of libtards and their Nazi socialist leader B. Hussein Obama's agenda for letting in all this refuse. No amnesty, let's repair the legal immigration process and prosecute all the illegals here now. But first, get some real security on that border.

Is the President a Nazi or is he a socialist?
 
Smallpotatoes said:
NFL-Solomon said:
This is a direct result of libtards and their Nazi socialist leader B. Hussein Obama's agenda for letting in all this refuse. No amnesty, let's repair the legal immigration process and prosecute all the illegals here now. But first, get some real security on that border.

Is the President a Nazi or is he a socialist?

The Nazis were socialists.
 
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Ace said:
NFL-Solomon said:
Ace said:
Garbage, trash, criminal scum.

So is that your schtick? Flame-throwing, name-calling right-wing warrior?

Why not, it's served so many others around here so well

And not only that, it provides complete immunity to the rules against posting politically inflammatory topics. That only applies to (well,, is certainly only OBSERVED by) libtards.)

Enjoy!
 
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