Fox News' Todd Starnes has an expose on the border situation as revealed by whistle blowers. Many of the children arriving at our border from Central America are disease ridden. Worse yet, workers have been threatened with arrest by mysterious security police if they speak out on the situation.
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=361069
Of course, I feel badly for these unfortunate kids who are caught in the cross-fire of an international mess, but there are health concerns here for all concerned. The first thing reporters (as if we still had any left in America) should be asking is, "Who are these security 'brown shirts' and what police authority do they have to arrest anybody merely for opening their mouths?"
Of course, aside from the much-maligned Fox News, who else will ask-MSNBC?
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Of course, I feel badly for these unfortunate kids who are caught in the cross-fire of an international mess, but there are health concerns here for all concerned.
What an armchair intellectual you have been on this whole subject. Again you raise a concern, again you express human feelings for the situation, and again, you say NOTHING about what you propose as a sound and sane policy.
OK, there are diseases to be concerned about.
1) Meet them at the border with machine guns so they don't bring their diseased bodies across the river in the first place.
2) Put them in medical quarantine until these concerns have been alleviated.
3) Don't bother taking them into custody at all, and let them wander freely until they die of their illness.
Do you know of any other good possibilities? Until you offer one, (2) sounds like the only option to me.
As for the "brownshirts" you mention, most law enforcement agencies have some personnel who act like that some of the time, and sometimes think it is the right thing to do.
Siarlys,
I agree with you that 2 is the only option, but that doesn't mean they get to stay here. If we let them all stay we only encourage tens of thousands more to come. No doubt they are already trekking through Mexico as we speak.
It seems to me that Mexico is the key here as they all come via Mexico.
I would really put the economic screws on Mexico until that stop that traffic.
We still have a Marine in a prison there because he made a wrong term.
Our whole relationship with Mexico should be critically examined.
Here is an attempt to answer the question: "Who are these security 'brown shirts"?
This is exactly what King Obama is wanting. To create a crisis that will demonstrate his strength against State interests, the Senate ( A Senator was denied access to one of the holding areas) and the House.
Please recall the fact that HHS is involved in this crisis, because it brings disease.
So, recall the Affordable Care Act, SEC. 5210 (page 1313) Establishing a Ready Reserve Corps. Section 203 of the Public Health Services act (42 U.S.C. 204) is amended to read as follows:
Establishment of a Commissioned Corps and Ready Reserve Corps., There will be in the service. a ready reserve for times of national emergency. They will be appointed without regard to the ciivl-service laws and compensated without regard regard to the Classification Act of 1923. The officers of the ready reserve shall be appointed by the President and appointed by the President with advice of the Senate. Commissioned Officers of the Ready Reserve (not Armed Forces), by the Surgeon General.
This Corp would be called up in time of emergency, at a moments notice, by the President. This also means public health emergencies. This Corp will be ready fro deployment in domestic and foreign emergencies and to be available in isolated, hardship, and medically underserved.
Now does this part of the HHS law fit the current needs of populating America with illegal aliens? It does to me. We shall see what happens in the near future, as the "crisis" continues.
Squid
Thank you Gary. Its always good when you recognize that the Obama administration is doing something right. Now, whether some, any, or none of them should stay is a legitimate question to debate.
I don't think we know enough. Some could merit comparison to the shiploads of Jews that sailed from Europe in 1938, and were refused entry by blue blooded dyed-in-the-wool conservatives in the State Department. Others may have more in common with those who tried to come in under the agricultural worker quote under the Reagan administration. I remember reading about one who was asked "does asparagus grow up on the tree, or hang down." The answer was "Do you think I'm stupid? It hangs down." (The theory was that those with prior experience in American agriculture could cross the border legally to work again ... and as you are fond of pointing out, all kinds of people tried to pass themselves off as qualified when they were not.)
Let's take care of the immediate steps we agree on, and then employ the freedom of information act to get a sense of who and what these kids really are, and how best to respond long term.
@ Siarlys,
I am so glad that you think that FDR was a " blue blooded dyed-in-the-wool conservative" as he was in office from 1933-1944. He ran the State Department, just like Obama runs his State Department. It was FDR that turned the Jews away in 1938.
Your history needs a little polishing to get by me.
Squid
Squid, your history is no history at all. The levels of the State Department that actively handled immigration were deliberately obstructing the president's direct orders, sitting on things for further investigation, then running back to the president with urgent reports about how Nazi agents would be inundating the country disguised as refugee Jews if we let those refugees in.
(Now that excuse does have a familiar ring, eh Gary?)
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