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  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. official said on Sunday the U.S. border is not open to illegal entry into the country, but acknowledged the government does need to be sensitive to the tens of thousands of migrant children flowing into detention centers.
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More than 52,000 unaccompanied minors from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras have been caught trying to sneak over the U.S.-Mexico border since October, double the number from the same period the year before. Thousands more have been apprehended with parents or other adults.
"We have to do right by the children, but at the end of the day, our border is not open to illegal migration and we will stem the tide," Jeh Johnson, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
Johnson said that the government administers deportation proceedings to illegal migrants seized at the border, including children. But he added that the government is looking at being more flexible toward the children seized at the border.
"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.
Johnson repeated the stance, taken by President Barack Obama last week, that the president would take executive action to revamp the U.S. immigration system.
"There are a number of things the president and I, within the confines of existing law, can do to fix the broken immigration system. If Congress doesn't act, we will," Johnson said.
Johnson would not answer a question on the Sunday show pertaining to whether the U.S. government would deport the current wave of Central American children, saying only that U.S. authorities would stem the tide, and that deportation processes are commenced against illegal immigrants.
U.S. immigration officials say the crisis is being driven by a mix of extreme poverty, gangs and drug violence in Central America, as well as rumors perpetuated by human smugglers that children who reach the U.S. border will be allowed to stay.
Critics say that the Obama administration has not moved quickly enough to address the problem.
Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat whose congressional district includes a stretch of the Texas-Mexico border, said on CNN's "State of the Union" program that 48,000 people, including 9,700 children traveling without parents, were detained on the Texas border in May. "We should have been ready for this surge," he said. "The administration should have been ready ... They should have seen this coming a long time ago."
Idaho Representative Raul Labrador, a Republican, said the U.S. needs to take a strong stance against what is happening at border facilities.
"The thing that the administration needs to do is immediately deport these families, these children. I know it sounds harsh, I know it sounds difficult, but they're creating a crisis that's going to harm these children," he said on "Meet the Press."
Labrador added that the frustration building up is because the administration is doing nothing about border security.
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I am fed up with being sensitive to people that call me names and steal from me. The first thing that I am doing tomorrow is to start calling my Congressman and insisting that Obama be denied and MONEY to pay for his refusal to enforce our laws and his executive amnesty.

All of his little pro amnesty groups that are all set to get their payoffs to build their amnesty infrastructure can do without.

The only thing these "children" and their "parents" need is a swift kick in the rear back to their home country. I am sick of looking at them.

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

The only thing these "children" and their "parents" need is a swift kick in the rear back to their home country. I am sick of looking at them.

Obama is the on e that should get the kick in the ass ALSO & the Parent's & kids ship right back home

The communists always use the children guilt thing to manipulate. I didn't have and I don't want to pay to raise them. Their mothers chose to have two of three and they are their responsibility.
The ones that are under the age of 7 that do not have parents should be put up adoption. Just saying that someone is their Aunt or Uncle of some other mystical distant relative isn't enough unless they can document who they are - and this should happen immediately.

Washington DC power elite does not represent the citizens of America rather they appear to show concern only for the rest of the world, I believe we're overdue for a new party The People's Party, perhaps we can elect leaders who are concerned with real wage earners.

They need to be returned to their homelands, no matter where they're from, no what age they are, no matter how many illegal relatives are already here. All illegal aliens need deportation orders and denied all jobs, benefits and services to which they are not entitled to begin with because they aren't supposed to be in the country in the first place. DUH! Wake Up America!

someone had better start coming up with a whole lot of Barry Bucks... where's the money from cradle to grave going to come from

If you cant flash the big bucks for HUD, Welfare, WIC, Obamacare, Dental etc.... they need to shut the hell up and send them packing back home

Who are these politicians and bureaucrats that attempt to be moral police and tell people what they should think, feel or be responsible for?

Not the "Baby Daddy" I will NOT be paying for ANY of these 300,000 children

I'll go on the Maury Povich show if you wish... them kids are NOT Mine

If the Dem's want to foot the bill from Cradle to Grave ... so be it

you can play baby daddy and open up your wallet

Give up the Barry Bucks; your going to need hundreds of Billions to cover this scam