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    Johnson ramps up border projections

    By DAVID ROGERS | 7/10/14 3:05 PM EDT Updated: 7/11/14 7:37 AM EDT


    Sylvia Mathews Burwell, secretary of Health and Human Services, and Jeh Johnson, secretary of Homeland Security, are pictured. | Meredith Miller/POLITICO

    The Obama administration again ramped up its estimates of the child migrant crisis at the southwest border Thursday — predicting as many as 90,000 unaccompanied minors could be apprehended before the end of this fiscal year Sept 30, a more than three-fold increase over 2013.

    Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the resulting strain is such that immigration agencies will begin to run out of money in mid-August without some infusion of funds from Congress. But he cautioned lawmakers against insisting on wholesale changes in a 2008 statute protecting the children – a law which “reflects fundamental values and commitments of this country that we should continue to adhere to,” Johnson said.

    Republicans remained unconvinced, saying the White House was offering “pie in the sky” and had been too slow to respond to the crisis. Indeed, administration officials conceded that only about 1800 of the unaccompanied child migrants are currently deported each year and 46 percent of all juveniles failed to show up when summoned later by the immigration courts.

    But Johnson said that with the resources requested by President Barack Obama this week, the situation can be turned around. And once the U.S. begins to return a significant number of the children to Central America, it will convince families to no longer pay smugglers to bring the minors across Mexico to the Rio Grande.[/B]


    “People in Central America need to see illegal migrants coming back,” Johnson said. “We have to return people … They need to see people coming back, that they wasted their money.”

    At issue is a $3.73 billion emergency spending request from the president, most of which would go to Homeland Security and the department of Health and Human Services. HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell testified alongside Johnson, and both the departments of State and Justice were also represented at the lengthy hearing that drew more than two dozen senators.

    For all the attention paid Thursday, what the next step will be for Congress is unclear.

    Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) is anxious to try to move on the package. And Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) again signaled Thursday that he would like to see some House action before the August recess.

    (Also on POLITICO: Obama hits GOP on immigration)

    But both political parties seem so spooked by the larger immigration fight that they end up talking past one another – rather than trying to solve the immediate problem of the children.

    Republicans have adopted the narrative that Obama created the problem with a 2012 directive that deferred deportations of children who had come to the U.S. prior to 2007 — long before the influx now.

    The president in turn pounds the Republican-controlled House for failing to act on a comprehensive reform package which passed the Senate last year.

    “I’m pretty far out there on immigration reform. I want to pass immigration reform,” complained Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). “But I want to stop this narrative that if we had passed some law, we wouldn’t have this problem.”

    (Also on POLITICO: Boehner slams prez on border crisis)

    At the same time Johnson suggested the GOP was making too much of the need to repeal or significantly change a 2008 law which requires extra legal protections for child migrants coming from countries not immediately adjacent to the U.S. The law was initially designed to protect against human trafficking abuses of minors brought from as far away as Asia. But it has had a major impact in this case since so many of the children are coming from nations like El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras — none of which share borders with the U.S.

    The new projection of 90,000 unaccompanied children for 2014, for example, is said to include about 70,000 from Central America.

    Johnson told senators he would welcome having the discretion of offering these young migrants the same quick voluntary return procedure now used with Mexican child migrants. But he resisted pressure from Republicans to go further. And Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) warned he would fight “tooth and nail” any wholesale changes in the current protections.

    Obama is not without assets in Congress. Mikulski is a former Baltimore social worker who is plainly concerned about the plight of the children. Her House counterpart, Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), is well-versed in Homeland Security issues after overseeing that budget for many years.

    Yet Mikulski had to spent months prodding the White House to be more forthright about the costs of the crisis now. And communications between the White House and Rogers have been spotty at best with each faulting the other for not being more open.

    Whoever is to blame, the end result is something of a caricature of modern Washington — made all the more stark by the faces of the children themselves.

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/0...#ixzz37AXiNGNO

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    Let them run out of money in August! Let BP run out of money in Sept. That will necessitate ANY border security to be military.

    I e-mailed the Pres. again this morn, closed as I have most of this year, "May your family have experiences similar to what my family have experienced. G'Day."

    It is unfortunate, but as most Americans. Presidents do not seem to understand how dangerous our border INSECURITY is until they have a bad experience because of BORDER INSECURITY.

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