6/15/2014
You would think that the specter of 100,000 children flooding across the southwest border in response to Obama promise of amnesty would be a wake-up call for Congress’ Republican leadership. Nope. Boehner and friends instead have hit the snooze button and gone back to sleep.
The surge in unaccompanied children crossing the border began last fall and rapidly increased this spring. Organizations watching the situation say the flow is steady and will reach 100,000 before the end of the summer.
The Border Patrol in Texas has been so overwhelmed by the surge they cannot find housing or safe accommodations for the children. Thousands of illegal-alien children are being flown not only to locations in Arizona and California but also Oklahoma and others as far away as Massachusetts. The governor of Arizona has publicly protested to the Obama administration that this dumping into Arizona camps is occurring without any prior notice or coordination with state officials.
In previous years, the number of unaccompanied children was typically in the range of 4,000 to 6,000 annually. So, it is fair to ask, what promoted this ten-fold increase in children crossing our border?
That’s really no mystery. Newspapers throughout Mexico and Central America have been talking about Obama’s amnesty program for children since the summer of 2012, and the Obama administration has done absolutely nothing to discourage parents from sending their kids on the dangerous journey.
This phenomenon exposes a fundamental lie perpetrated by the Obama White House and amnesty partisans in the Congress and the news media. The lie was that the “Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals” program applied only to children who were brought across the border by their parents. “It’s not their fault, so we can’t punish them” was the justification for allowing them to stay and seek permanent legal status without the threat of deportation hanging over their heads.
As everyone admits, Obama’s “Deferred Action” program was implemented in direct contradiction of an act of Congress. That “Dream Act” legislation was voted down by Congress in December of 2011. Thus, Obama was acting not in the face of “congressional inaction”; he was acting in the face of an explicit congressional decision NOT to authorize that program.
But Obama and his La Raza advisers were not content with that achievement. They decided to expand the program exponentially. After all, if giving a million “Dreamers” already in the county legal status and work permits was a good idea that Congress has acquiesced to, why not extend it to millions of children who were not brought across the border by their parents? And why not millions more who are not yet in the United States but who want to come here?
Make a wish, and lo, Obama will make it so.
According to the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, the DACA program is also available for children who come across the border “seeking their parents, or seeking a better life.” Presto! An open invitation, broadcast worldwide, that our doors are open to all children who want a better life. Has anyone made a count of how many children on the planet might qualify for Obama’s gift of American citizenship?
So, there is no mystery why we are seeing a flood of children crossing our southwest border. Parents in any country can simply send a child on that perilous journey and can expect that not only will the child be welcomed and not deported, the child can later petition for the parents to join them in the name of “family reunification.” Of course, the Obama administration assumes that such family reunifications must always occur north of the border, not back in El Salvador, Honduras or Venezuela.
The real crime, however, is not in Obama’s lawlessness but in Republican complacency in the face of that lawlessness.
Obama is simply acting in fulfillment of his goals to “transform America,” and we should not be shocked by the latest – or the next – outrage. But we do have a right to be shocked and outraged when Republican leaders roll over and go back to sleep.
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