Investor’s Business DailyThousands of illegals are pouring into Texas in a new border surge, following President Obama’s executive mass amnesty and refusal to deport. It was as predictable as the sunrise — and raises new questions.
Back in late September, Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking with his counterparts from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico, warned that the pause in the border surge of families and unaccompanied minors, then some 50,000 or so in each category for the year, was temporary. “We have to use this time to put in place more efforts, greater efforts to get at the root cause of this, because we know that those numbers may rise again,” Kerry said.
He was speaking of disease prevention efforts rather than an actual halt to the illegal flow of immigrants.
And he was right — with the searing heat of summer over, the human surge has resumed, with no apparent U.S. plans or efforts to stop it. This means that in effect, the border surge is likely to become an ordinary feature of life so long as Barack Obama is president.
Apprehensions are up about 9% in fiscal 2014, and could go higher in the coming year if current trends continue. A new Department of Homeland Security report (released late last Friday to avoid publicity) showed 486,000 total apprehensions in fiscal 2014 versus about 421,000 in fiscal 2013. That means a lot more people are crossing the border. And there was no word on the 90% or so of arrivals who come in and don’t get caught.
From the data on those caught, there was a particularly sharp 500% rise in family units — usually single moms with kids in tow. Some 52,000 were apprehended over fiscal 2013. And to top it off, there was a nearly 9% drop in deportations in the same period.
Those last numbers in particular point to the reason for the surge: Obama’s two-year executive amnesty, announced last month, for about 5 million illegals already in the U.S. who are parents of minors here.
Obama handed them work permits that will let them take jobs here, plus a reprieve from deportation — at least so long as he is president.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to recognize that a policy like this for illegals with families is an enormous incentive for more to come here from their homelands illegally, instead of waiting in line as the law-abiding do.
And yet the policy still gets little attention, not just because the story was reported last summer during the first surge but also because permitting repeated violations of the law seems to be our president’s idea: make law-breaking the norm.
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America is going to have to do as they do here. Come vist stay spend your money. Cause no problems and they don’t seem to care. Want a job here get a police clearence first. No warents,no wants, here legal, no problem. But with out that no one will hire you here because they do not want to go to jail and pay the fine! And well if you starve to death here they don’t care. End of problem. Most go home some stay and starve.
Amazing how no one has heard anything on the militia done there? What’s really going on and whatever happened to closing off the border or port of entries? What happened to Barbie and the Patriot information hotline? It’s like crickets. Anyone have any answers or information on it all? It’s strange.