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    Homeland Sec. Johnson gives no clear answers on whether illegal alien children will

    Homeland Sec. Johnson gives no clear answers on whether illegal immigrant children will be deported

    Published July 06, 2014 FoxNews.com

    July 4, 2014: A protester shouts at border patrol officers during a immigration demonstration outside the Border Patrol facility in Murrieta, Calif.AP

    Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson dodged pointed questions Sunday about whether the tens of thousands of Central Americans children who have recently entered the U.S. illegally will be deported or allowed to stay.

    His responses on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and those of other Obama administration officials about what exactly they will do about the estimated 50,000 children who have entered the U.S. illegally in recent months are being characterized as ambiguous, as officials try to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.


    Johnson said everybody who crossed the border faces a “pending” deportation proceeding but also repeated recent administration talking points about looking at ways to “create additional options.”


    “There’s deportation proceeding pending against everybody coming illegally across the border,” he said, while also repeating the administration’s argument about dealing with a 2008 law that gives some protection to illegal immigrants from non-bordering countries.


    Johnson also dismissed questions about not having enough resources at the border and expressed optimism the U.S. will stop the flow of illegals into the country, estimated in the hundreds of thousands since spring.


    “Our border is not open for illegal immigration,” he told NBC. “And we will stem the tide.”


    He also suggested that America’s first obligation is to the incoming children, over sovereignty.


    “We have to do right by the children,” Johnson said.


    His remarks were sharply criticized by Idaho GOP Rep. Raul Labrador, who called the administration’s public response to the crisis “shameful.”


    “The administration needs to deport these families and children,” said Labrador, who appeared on the show after Johnson. “I know it sounds harsh and difficult, but it's better for the children. Send these children back in a humanitarian way. We can do it safely and efficiently.”


    He also dismissed the narrative that the children are being sent unaccompanied to the U.S. border as a result of violence in their own country.


    “The violence has existed for a long time,” Labrador said. “It's over the last two years that you've seen an increase in the children.”


    While some of the children are living with relatives in this country, some remain in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol and the Department of Health and Human Services.


    Johnson declined to say whether Obama will visit the border while in Texas this week.


    "The president can't be every place he'd like to be or should be," he said. Johnson also said he didn’t think the protests in Murrieta, Calif., about illegal immigrants being bussed from Texas to be housed in their city was representative of how fellow residents and the rest of America feel.


    On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was asked by a reporter whether he could say “without ambiguity” if the children will be deported.


    “What I can say without ambiguity is that the law will be applied and there is going to be a due process that they’ll all be subjected to,” Earnest replied.

    “So I wouldn’t stand here and say how those claims will be processed; it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to do so. But the law will be rigorously applied.”


    He also said the administration is seeking “additional authority” from Congress.


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    How did Jeh Johnson pass his Senate confirmation hearings successfully? He has'nt had a clear answer since then. I would think with the responsibility that he is charged with, he has more to do then "manage the babysitter."

    If this is Homeland Security, why do we need it?

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    I saw his interview. Terribly smug and evasive. He reminded me of the IRS head during questioning, just a bit cooler in tone.

    How disappointing that these officials don't mind to ignore the law, break the law, manufacture the law. They don't seem to mind to hurt the citizenry and the nation, yet they will go to the mat to protect those who would harm us.

    These individuals do not deserve our respect as it relates to their positions, they deserve the contempt that the American people rightly express in growing numbers.
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    They seem to be running their own little country all by themselves and we, the evil colonialists, are paying for it.

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    U.S. to Turn Illegal Migrants Around Faster, Johnson Says

    By Greg Giroux and Tom Schoenberg July 06, 2014



    A boy on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border fence peers into Arizona, on April 1, 2014. Photographer: John Moore/Getty Images

    The Obama administration will curb the number of unaccompanied, undocumented children crossing the U.S. border with Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said.

    “Our message to those who come here illegally: Our border is not open to illegal migration, and we are taking a number of steps to address it, including turning people around faster,” Johnson said today on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”


    President Barack Obama on June 30 asked Congress for emergency funds and legal authority to stem the rising flow of children into the U.S. and said legislation may be needed to increase penalties for people smuggling them.


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    More than 52,000 unaccompanied children have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border this fiscal year through June 15, about double the number in a similar period in fiscal 2013, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Most of the children are smuggled through Central America and Mexico, according to the White House.


    “We are looking at ways to create additional options for dealing with the children in particular, consistent with our laws and our values,” Johnson said.


    Organized Crime


    Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto, in an interview with Charlie Rose that aired on PBS last week, pledged to help put an end to a surge in child migration to the U.S., attributing the jump to organized crime gangs that smuggle people across the border.

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    White House press secretary Josh Earnest has said “criminal syndicates” are fueling the surge in immigrants by propagating rumors of U.S. amnesty.

    Republicans are blaming the influx of undocumented children on Obama’s policies, including a program that prevents youths with longstanding ties to the U.S. from being deported.


    Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican, said that he’s warned the Obama administration for more than two years about unaccompanied children showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border.


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    “This is a failure of diplomacy, it is a failure of leadership from the administration in Washington, D.C.,” Perry said on ABC’s “This Week.”


    The Obama administration needs to “immediately deport these families, these children,” Representative Raul Labrador, an Idaho Republican, said on NBC.


    “I know it sounds harsh, I know it sounds difficult, but they’re creating a crisis at this time that is actually going to harm these children,” Labrador said.


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    ‘Step Behind’

    Obama administration officials are “one step behind” and “should have seen this coming a long time ago,” Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat who represents a border district, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

    Obama plans to seek more than $2 billion in funding after lawmakers return this week from recess. That represents an increase of $400 million from plans the administration announced last month.


    The White House request comes as a broad rewrite of immigration laws is stalled in Congress. Obama also said June 30 that he’ll resort to executive action on U.S. immigration rules because House Republicans won’t hold a vote on legislation to revamp the system.


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    “There are a number of things that the president and I, within the confines of existing law, can do to fix the broken immigration system, and we will,” Johnson said. “If Congress doesn’t act, we will.”


    Secure Communities


    Johnson said that the administration would work to fix flaws in the Secure Communities program, which facilities the transfer of local arrestees to federal immigration officials.

    Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, proposed other solutions. “Send these children back to their homeland, tell the countries in question, ‘if you don’t keep them and take care of them, we’re going to cut all aid off,’” Graham said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program.


    Democratic lawmakers and activists are pressing the president to halt deportations for the almost 12 million undocumented immigrants already in the country who would benefit under a stalled Senate bill.

    The Republican-led House last year refused to vote on legislation approved by the Senate that would have cleared a path to citizenship for many in the U.S. illegally. Some House Republicans say it amounts to amnesty.


    “I am really getting fed up with some of the critics of this administration, particularly from House Republicans,” Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democratic leader, said on CBS.

    “They had the opportunity for one solid year to call the immigration reform bill, and yet they refused to.”


    Citizenship Path


    Republican leaders outlined guidelines for piecemeal immigration legislation at their annual retreat in January, starting with increased border security and including a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants.

    Despite months of work, including by close allies of House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, Republicans haven’t found an approach that could garner a majority vote from within their party.


    What little momentum advocates had was hurt by Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s primary election loss in Virginia last month to challenger David Brat, who was backed by local activists aligned with the limited-government Tea Party movement.


    To contact the reporters on this story: Greg Giroux in Washington at ggiroux@bloomberg.net; Tom Schoenberg in Washington at tschoenberg@bloomberg.net

    To contact the editors responsible for this story: Bernard Kohn at bkohn2@bloomberg.net Gail DeGeorge, Romaine Bostick

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    I cannot make sense of Durbin's continuous return to Sen,744 as a solution. In fact, it weakened border security even more than it is now. He and Obama must have had lunch together again. Still both sing the same tune.

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