Thread: Obama has no plans to visit Texas border

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By Dave Boyer
The Washington Times
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

President Obama doesn’t plan to accept an invitation from Texas Gov. Rick Perry to visit the Mexican border next week during a fundraising trip to witness the immigration crisis first-hand, the White House said Wednesday.

“Right now there is no plan to visit the border,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest. “The president’s getting regular updates on the situation.”

But Mr. Earnest held open the possibility that the president could change his mind, saying “sometimes schedules change.”

Mr. Perry called on the president to accompany him to the border next week to see for himself the problems of illegal immigration, including a surge of children from Central America in recent months. Mr. Obama is traveling to Texas to attend Democratic fundraisers in Austin and Dallas.

“If the president of the United States is really serious about securing that border, we can show him how to do that,” Mr. Perry told Fox and Friends. “But I haven’t even had a phone call from this president.”

Seemingly referring to the governor, Mr. Earnest said “the most important thing [people in border states] can do is not to offer public invitations but to lend their public support to comprehensive immigration reform.”

House Republicans said this week they won’t take up immigration legislation this year.

Mr. Earnest said Mr. Obama has been kept apprised of the border problems by top aides who have visited the southern border regularly in recent weeks.

“The president’s getting regular updates on the situation,” Mr. Earnest said, adding that Mr. Obama has visited the border both as a presidential candidate and as president.

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No need to visit if you have no intentions of stopping the crisis

Originally Posted by working4change

No need to visit if you have no intentions of stopping the crisis

Or maybe he is afraid he may bring a disease home to his kids? At a sign of a first epidemic, look for closing the WH to the public.

Seemingly referring to the governor, Mr. Earnest said “the most important thing [people in border states] can do is not to offer public invitations but to lend their public support to comprehensive immigration reform.”

In other words, "Give me what I want, when I want it, and how I want it and I'll think about calling off the dogs."

Originally Posted by kevinssdad

Or maybe he is afraid he may bring a disease home to his kids? At a sign of a first epidemic, look for closing the WH to the public.

Bingo! We have a winner!

by Tony Lee 3 Jul 2014, 7:25 PM PDT
breitbart



President Barack Obama will attend three fundraisers in Texas next week but will not travel to the border to see the crisis that many say he has exacerbated by not enforcing the country's immigration laws and vowing to enact unilaterally more executive actions to ease deportations.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said at Thursday's White House press briefing that Obama is scheduled to attend a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Dallas on Wednesday and two events for the Democratic National Committee in Austin on Wednesday and Thursday.

When pressed about Obama's decision not to go to the border and the military bases and detention centers where illegal immigrant children are being warehoused, Earnest said Obama has all the information that he needs from his senior advisors.

"I defend that by describing to you that there are a whole range of senior officials in this administration over the course of the last three or four weeks who have spent a lot of time in the southwest border," he said.

Earnest said that "senior officials" from FEMA and officials like Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Cecilia Munoz, the White House's Domestic Policy Director, "in the last several weeks have spent a lot of time visiting the border to assess the conditions there."

"The President has a very good sense of what’s happening on the border," Earnest said. "He’s getting regular updates from his officials who have traveled to that region."

Earnest said Obama wants "regular reports about what they’re seeing on the border and how resources that are being devoted to processing those who have appeared at the border are being used to effectively administrate justice" and is "well aware of that process and how it’s going."

Texas Governor Rick Perry recently urged Obama to travel to the border. And at a House Homeland Security Committee Field Hearing at McAllen, Texas on Thursday, Perry also said Obama should use diplomacy to convince Mexico to secure its southern border with Guatemala -- if Obama cared about the issue.

After Obama, by executive fiat, enacted his temporary amnesty program for some illegal immigrant children, the number of children crossing the border from Central America has increased. At least 50,000 have entered the country illegally since October of last year, and Perry said at least 160,000 more are expected to try next year. Obama's critics -- like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- have accused him of exploiting the illegal immigrant children to push his political agenda.

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