Obama Gluba Aggravate Border Problem

From the QC Times: Gluba initiates effort to aid  children

Providing a safe haven for Central American children who are fleeing their home countries is being explored by representatives of 15 Quad-City agencies, who met Tuesday night for the first time.

Davenport Mayor Bill Gluba initiated the effort, called the “Caring Cities Campaign.” He characterized it at Tuesday’s meeting as “a humanitarian effort to live up to what we really believe as a nation.” 

“These are kids that need to be accepted by the American people, and I think the people of the Quad-Cities are good people who will open their homes and their hearts and we’ll figure out how to deal with this on a temporary or a long-term basis.”

No mention on the amount of support from  tax supported agencies to be involved or on what authority their budgets and mandates are to be redirected.  The long term basis comment portends an irresponsible unwarranted expropriation and should be  challenged by the City Council.

Gary Bauer End of Day Report: Enforcement First!

In yesterday’s report, I suggested how members of Congress who are serious about border security should respond to Barack Obama’s request for $3.7 billion in emergency funding for the border crisis. I’m pleased to report that there are some on Capitol Hill who get it. Consider these excerpts of a press release from Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX):

“This isn’t a funding problem, it’s an enforcement problem. … I’d be happy to give the President $3.7 billion to secure the border if I thought he’d actually do it. But time and again President Obama has shown that he cares more about the interests of illegal immigrants than of law abiding citizens. Congress shouldn’t give President Obama a single penny until we see him use the current resources to secure the border, increase interior enforcement, and reduce illegal immigration.”

Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) is asking why the 2006 Secure Fence Act isn’t being enforced. He estimates that only 44% of the border is “operationally secure,” not 100% as required by the law.

By the way, Rep. Bridenstine was recently denied access to Fort Sill, a military base in his district that is being used to house unaccompanied children from Latin America. The Obama Administration has agreed to allow a media tour of the base tomorrow, but has imposed all kinds of outrageous restrictions on recording devices and no interaction between the media and the staff and children. Rep. Bridenstine is rejecting those limits and demanding “unfettered access” to the facility.

Newt Gingrich comments today:

Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, on CNN’s “Crossfire” Tuesday night, demolished the President’s proposal.

“That’s $60,000 per child that we’re going to spend, in emergency money,” he pointed out. (Parents and students trying to get through college should contemplate that number.) “That shows just how incompetent we [are] — we can’t do that for three or four thousand per child?…If we can’t do that, the Border Patrol is as bad as the VA.”

“For $8 million,” he pointed out later in the show, “we can put them all on a first-class seat back to their homes.”

Actually, he exaggerated a little bit. A business class flight from San Antonio to Guatemala City is about $450. Lowest economy ticket is $318. For the 60,000 young people entering the United States this year under the Feinstein Amendment, flying home commercially would be in the range of $18 to $26 million plus the cost of staffing etc. So the Coburn plan might cost (once staff, etc. is included) in the $40 million to $80 million range.

That means, of course, that the Coburn plan would save at least $3.62 billion over the Obama plan. . . .

Coburn also noted that the current scale of the border crisis would disappear if Congress would simply repeal the Feinstein Amendment.

Chairman Bob Goodlatte of the House Judiciary Committee also noted that there are a number of executive actions the President could take which would end the open borders for foreign children policy. The Obama administration policy of “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” was an executive decision to begin with (and one of questionable legality). The President certainly has the authority to enforce immigration law.

The Obama policy instead assumes the border will remain open and he wants to use taxpayer money to fund the lengthy process of getting children from Central America involved in the American legal system. It is a great excuse to have the government hire even more lawyers.

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