Obama must of blown the dog whistle again
-Geaux
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The surge of illegal immigrant children and families jumping the Southwest border accelerated again in September, leaving fiscal 2015 the second-worst on record, according to new numbers released by the Border Patrol Wednesday.
Agents caught 4,476 children traveling without parents on the border last month, and 5,273 parents and children traveling as families — both of those nearly twice the level the Border Patrol saw in September 2014, and suggesting that smugglers have once again stepped up their efforts to entice illegal immigrants to make the crossing.
Border Patrol officials in Washington blamed violence and poor economic conditions in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras for pushing illegal immigrants to flee their homes and head north, but agents on the ground said the problem is lax U.S. enforcement, which entices migrants to make the dangerous journey, assured that they’ll be allowed in the U.S. rather than turned away at the border.
“We’re talking about the rule of law in other countries, we’re not enforcing the rule of law in this country,” Chris Cabrera, an official with the National Border Patrol Council, the labor union for line agents, testified to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
Surge of illegal children, families accelerates - Washington Times
-Geaux
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The surge of illegal immigrant children and families jumping the Southwest border accelerated again in September, leaving fiscal 2015 the second-worst on record, according to new numbers released by the Border Patrol Wednesday.
Agents caught 4,476 children traveling without parents on the border last month, and 5,273 parents and children traveling as families — both of those nearly twice the level the Border Patrol saw in September 2014, and suggesting that smugglers have once again stepped up their efforts to entice illegal immigrants to make the crossing.
Border Patrol officials in Washington blamed violence and poor economic conditions in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras for pushing illegal immigrants to flee their homes and head north, but agents on the ground said the problem is lax U.S. enforcement, which entices migrants to make the dangerous journey, assured that they’ll be allowed in the U.S. rather than turned away at the border.
“We’re talking about the rule of law in other countries, we’re not enforcing the rule of law in this country,” Chris Cabrera, an official with the National Border Patrol Council, the labor union for line agents, testified to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
Surge of illegal children, families accelerates - Washington Times