Tough Talk On Borders. And It Isn't From Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
So notes Debra J. Saunders in her column about a Hillary Clinton town hall/book promo event. In Clinton's words:
"We have to send a clear message. Just because your child gets across the border, doesn't mean the child gets to stay. We don't want to send a message that is contrary to our laws or will encourage more children to make that dangerous journey."...After an audience member lambasted President Obama as the nation's "deporter-in-chief," Amanpour asked the former secretary of state what she would do about the thousands of children who have been crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. Some 90,000 unaccompanied minors are expected to be apprehended this year. "Should they be sent back?" Amanpour asked.
Before Clinton said flatly, "They should be sent back" she talked up comprehensive immigration reform. Good Democrat. Also, she asserted that violence in Central America has driven desperate youths and mothers to seek refuge.
In citing Central American chaos, Clinton essentially was rejecting conservatives' contention that like a Pied Piper, Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program - which freezes deportations for some immigrants who came to America illegally as children - has lured children from south of the border into the U.S.
Obama immigration critic Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies agrees that violence in Central America is a driver. But, he added, "If we enforce our laws, it has a deterrent effect. When you combine the disorder and poverty push factors in Central America, and the fact that we're giving them a pass, then you end up with this cascading crisis at the border."
I believe that as much as pigs can fly.
And Jeb Bush is just as bad.
Jim P. at June 19, 2014 12:52 PM
There's an email forward I keep seeing, that describes how MEXICO regards foreigners' so-called "rights"-- ie, they have none.
I don't think the bleeding hearts have heard about that.
jefe at June 19, 2014 3:16 PM
I'm not sure why people keep bringing up Mexicos policy on immigration. Well I understand why--because the majority of illegals are Mexican-but its policy is more of a throwback to a previous era (much like our own).
First off even semi-citizens who the government deemed not Mexican enough were kicked out. It's why Mexico has German polka and German beer but very few Germans.
Secondly the Mexican government monitors its borders very well because they do not want anyone but Mexicans making up the majority of illegal immigrants coming to the U.S.
Their incentive is not necessarily to protect their borders but to protect the money coming in from the U.S.
They have admited as much when they realized Brazilians were becoming the second largest illegal immigrant group and they immediatly stopped the open Visa policy they had with Brazil without notice.
This soured the Brazilian/Mexican relations for a couple of years.
Ppen at June 19, 2014 4:25 PM
Yes, but it is just talk...... And we know where that leads.
Isab at June 19, 2014 6:09 PM
"Im not sure why people keep bringing up Mexicos policy on immigration."
Back in 2010 the president of Mexico paid a visit to US Congress and lectured everybody about Arizona's attempt at enforcing *existing* immigration law, saying that it was cruel and unfair. How did Congress react? With rousing applause.
I don't have the foggiest fucking idea what to do about immigration reform -- but it seemed like a weird thing for a visiting president to stand there and give a speech like that.
I guess we can bitch about their fucked up laws as well? Fuckifiknow.
Jason S. at June 19, 2014 10:29 PM
Yeah, don't you just love getting lectured by one of the most corrupt governments on the face of the Earth? Lately I've been starting to think that we should just offer to buy the northern two-thirds of Mexico. A few billion dollars slipped into the right pockets would probably do it.
Cousin Dave at June 20, 2014 6:05 AM
I think the majority of the people crossing the border in South Texas now are actually from Guatamala and other non-Mexican countries. The Mexican "coyotes" are the ones shepherding them over, though. I don't know about other state's borders.
And really, I don't know what to do about it. This is frequent dinner-time conversation in my house. (My husband is in construction, so he works with a lot of people from Mexico and Central America.) They SHOULDN'T be here; and the border states are going to forced to feed, house, and educate these kids if they get to stay. But they're also children, so what do we do with them? Send 8-year-olds back across the Rio Grande on a raft? Do we even know how to get them back to their parents? I don't want them here, but I don't want them dying in a desert, either.
I have no problem with any president being known as the "deporter-in-chief." If you came here illegally, you're not supposed to be here. I just don't have a good solution, and I don't think sending everyone back to the bridge in Laredo or Brownsville on a bus is going to work, either.
ahw at June 20, 2014 9:21 AM
"A few billion dollars slipped into the right pockets would probably do it."
You'd be competing with the billions of the drug cartels and their American trained soldiers.
Ppen at June 20, 2014 9:46 AM
Gov’t Confirms Authenticity of Contract Request for ‘Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children’ at the Border
Someone knew it was going to happen.
Jim P. at June 20, 2014 4:25 PM
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