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    Four hundred child immigrants now entering the U.S. every day as authorities liken gr

    Four hundred child immigrants now entering the U.S. every day as authorities liken growing humanitarian crisis in makeshift centers to aftermath of Katrina


    • More than 160,000 immigrants have been apprehended in Texas' Valley sector in the first eight months of this fiscal year - more than all of last year
    • Over 400 children a day are coming and as many as 60,000 will cross the Mexican border illegally this year
    • Photos of these children lying on the floors of a large barren facility in Nogales, Arizona, have shocked the nation
    • Concerns are growing of a humanitarian crisis on a par with Hurricane Katrina with reports of sickness due to cramped conditions
    • The Obama administration is attributing the huge influx to violence in poverty stricken nations such as Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador
    • Some members of Congress say President Obama's policies and a lack of enforcement are to blame
    • Critics point to the President's decision in 2012 to stop most deportations of young people brought to the U.S. as kids
    • Senator John McCain criticized the false message of amnesty to illegal immigrants
    • He admitted that the border crisis would significantly harm any effort to pass some sort of immigration bill
    • The massive tide of unaccompanied children flooding the country illegally isn't expected to end anytime soon

    By Ryan Parry In Nogales, Arizona
    Published: 23:09 EST, 11 June 2014 | Updated: 11:15 EST, 12 June 2014
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    More than 400 children a day are flooding illegally in to the U.S. it has emerged – a situation which further deepens the shocking humanitarian crisis along the border with Mexico.

    And the tide of border crossings by unaccompanied children mostly from Central America is not expected to end anytime soon.

    This comes as the MailOnline obtained exclusive photos of child immigrants being corralled by staff at a makeshift border patrol warehouse in Nogales, Arizona.



    Concerns are growing of a humanitarian crisis on a par with Hurricane Katrina with more than 400 children a day entering the country illegally as reports are emerging from the detention camp in Nogales, Arizona, of sickness due to the cramped conditions

    We witnessed a long line of children being processed in a yard outside the normally unused facility in an industrial area on the outskirts of the border town.

    Staff set up tents and giant fans in the 100 degree heat and large green screens were used to keep the children hidden.

    A border patrol officer manning the main gate at the U.S Border Patrol location told MailOnline that 200 extra officers had been drafted in to help.

    Local hotels were also packed out with the influx of government officials here to tackle the problem.

    The much needed response came after pictures of unaccompanied children lying on the floor of the large barren facility raised concerns of a humanitarian crisis.

    A wave of unaccompanied child immigrants have been initially arriving at a giant holding center in Texas at an alarming rate.



    A border patrol officer manning the main gate at the U.S Border Patrol location told MailOnline that 200 extra officers had been drafted in to help



    Overflowing: The shelter at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas can no longer accommodate large numbers of children and mothers traveling with their kids, forcing the federal government to open more facilities and move many to Nogales for processing

    But the center can no longer accommodate large numbers of children and mothers traveling with their kids, forcing the federal government to open more facilities and move many to Nogales for processing.

    More than 160,000 immigrants have been apprehended in Texas' Valley sector in the first eight months of this fiscal year, eclipsing the total for all of last year.

    This figure includes more than 33,000 unaccompanied children.

    It’s believed as many as 60,000 unaccompanied children will cross the Mexican border illegally this year in total.

    But America has been left astounded by the shocking conditions these children have been kept in - conditions so dire that border control agents fear the spread of disease.

    Thousands of children have been transported to Nogales, Arizona, and have reportedly become sickened by the food they have been given at the shelter.

    As many as 1,100 children are currently at the holding center.



    MailOnline obtained exclusive photos of child immigrants being corralled by staff at a makeshift border patrol warehouse in Nogales, Arizona



    Nogales Border Patrol station: Staff set up tents and giant fans in the 100 degree heat

    Tony Banegas, consul of Honduras to Arizona, told KPHO-TV that children had complained about the food at the shelter and expressed concerns about the shower and toilet facilities.

    The children are sleeping in plastic cots but about 2,000 mattresses have reportedly been ordered, and medical supplies and other basics are being shipped.

    Conditions are slowly improving, with shower facilities being added and donations of clothing being collected for the children.

    Vendors are being contracted to provide the children with nutritional meals, while the Federal Emergency Management Agency will provide counseling and recreational activities.

    Today MailOnline witnessed a large FedEx truck making a delivery to the rear of the warehouse.

    Nogales Mayor Arturo Garina insists the site is simply addressing the immediate need for shelter.

    ‘I'm very comfortable with what I saw,’ he told CNN.



    The nation has been left astounded by the shocking conditions these children have been kept in - conditions so dire that border control agents fear the spread of disease



    Thousands of children have been transported to Nogales, Arizona, and have reportedly become sickened by the food they have been given at the shelter

    He said there are makeshift cafes and medical centers and that telephone banks and computers have been set up to process people and contact relatives.

    Unaccompanied children and partial families from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala make up the majority of those crossing the border.

    Of the 1,200 or so crossing the Rio Grande in eastern Texas every day, up to 400 are unaccompanied children, said Rep. Henry Cuellar, who represents the district where most of the crossings occur. 'This is a humanitarian crisis,' he told CNN.

    It’s believed many of the immigrants use rafts to cross the Rio Grande, equipped with instructions to follow the river until reaching the Border Patrol site to surrender.

    The illegal immigrants include a group of Honduran girls, some as young as 14, according to CNN.

    The Government is not releasing the statistics or much information about the recent influx.

    But Chris Cabrera, a labor leader for Border Patrol agents, told CNN that he expects 60,000 unaccompanied children will cross the border this year.

    'You're talking kids from 17 years old on down to some that are 5 or 6 years old, traveling by themselves,' Mr Cabrera said.





    Critics are blaming the President's decision in 2012 to stop most deportations of young people brought to the U.S. as kids and Senator John McCain has criticized the false message of amnesty to illegal immigrants



    Unaccompanied children and partial families from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala make up the majority of those crossing the border

    Many in Congress have blamed President Barack Obama for policies they claim opened the floodgate of unaccompanied child immigrants.
    Senator John McCain (R-AZ) told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday said that he didn’t think that the illegal children should be allowed to stay.

    He also criticized the false message of amnesty to illegal immigrants which was drawing them to cross before immigration reform passed.

    ‘The word has spread, “Get up there before the immigration bill is passed and you will be eligible for citizenship,'” he said.

    ‘The word is out that if you can get here before passage of immigration reform, you can get a free ride – and that’s not true.’

    McCain admitted that the latest crisis at the border would significantly harm any effort to pass some sort of immigration bill.

    “It’s terrible, it’s terrible," he said. "And it is harming our chances of getting comprehensive immigration reform done because people are so angry about this.”



    Large green screens were used to keep the children hidden at the Nogales Border Patrol station in Arizona

    According to the Houston Chronicle, several advocacy organizations have lodged complaints with Department of Homeland Security officials on behalf of more than 100 unaccompanied youths alleging mistreatment by Customs and Border Patrol agents within the past year.

    Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testified on Wednesday before a Congressional committee that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has 70 personnel dedicated full time to coordinating humanitarian relief efforts for the surge of unaccompanied children caught at the border.

    The government has resorted to using three military installations to house an overflow of child immigrants, including an Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas.

    The situation is so bad that some officials have described the crisis being akin to that of Hurricane Katrina - a disaster which displaced more than 400,000 people in Louisiana.

    'How do you prepare for that?' Don Ray, the Executive Director of the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition, told KRLD in Texas.

    'You can’t have an influx of people like that without having an impact; I think we saw that after Katrina. It’s relocation services that are really taking place. In the case of Katrina, most of them were United States citizens or people that were here lawfully, and now you have people that aren’t here lawfully.'



    More than 160,000 immigrants have been apprehended in Texas' Valley sector in the first eight months of this fiscal year - more than all of last year

    What’s worse it has been reported that many illegal immigrants signal federal officials to detain them once they are near the border because they believe they will get a ‘pass’ to enter the U.S.

    This comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have declared they may not pursue all illegal immigrants who do not show up for hearings after they enter the country.

    According to Yoselin Ramos of the Los Angeles Times, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who was with '20 other families with children,' actually 'had looked forward to being caught.'

    She said at one point she even waved down patrol helicopters - because of the welcoming treatment she assumed he would receive.

    In their home countries south of the border, reports have been circulating that illegal immigrants, especially those with children, will be allowed to stay in America 'indefinitely.'

    Ramos said she decided to make the trek after hearing reports 'that parents will not be detained in the U.S. if they arrive with a child.'

    The Obama administration is attributing the huge influx to violence in poverty stricken nations such as Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

    But some members of Congress say Obama's policies and a lack of enforcement are to blame.



    At the base, children are provided with three hot meals and two snacks a day. They can call home twice a week. They have access to mental health clinicians and on-site medical care



    The minors flooding over the border are often teenagers leaving behind poverty or violence in Mexico and other parts of Central America such as Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala

    ‘The President has sent the message out he is not going to enforce the law,’ Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican whose commentary on immigration reform drew sharp criticism, told CNN.

    ‘That message has echoed out.’

    Critics, such as King, point to Obama's decision in 2012 to stop most deportations of young people brought to the United States as children.

    After the children at Nogales have been processed, they will be transferred to Department of Health and Human Services run facilities at Lackland Air Base in Texas or Ventura County Naval Base in California.

    The administration announced that a third facility in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, which will house up to 1,200 minors.

    U.S. law prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from immediately deporting the children if they are not from Canada or Mexico.

    Instead, the children are turned over to Department Health and Human Services supervision 'within 72 hours of DHS taking them into custody,' an official said.



    Over 400 children a day are coming and as many as 60,000 will cross the Mexican border illegally this year

    Relatives living in the U.S. are searched for and contacted and the immigrant is given a court date.

    But very few actually show up and the children often become one of the millions of undocumented immigrants.

    Tonight an organization of former Border Patrol agents charged that the federal government, under the administration of President Obama, is deliberately arranging for a flood of immigrant children to arrive in America for political purposes.

    'This is not a humanitarian crisis. It is a predictable, orchestrated and contrived assault on the compassionate side of Americans by her political leaders that knowingly puts minor illegal alien children at risk for purely political purposes,' said the statement released by the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers.
    Officials said about 60 percent of the children being held in Nogales are boys.

    Most of them are in the 15-17 age range, but there are many as young as three and four and teen mothers with their babies.



    The Border Patrol refurbished the old Factory 2-U warehouse in the mid 2000s to quickly process Mexican nationals, but it closed several years ago as the wave of immigrants slowed

    About 82 percent of them were apprehended by the Border Patrol in South Texas - a region that has seen the largest influx of children - and the rest from Arizona.
    So far, more than 100 of the children have been transferred to an Office of Refugee Resettlement-contracted shelter, where officials seek to reunite them with relatives or parents already in the U.S. while their immigration cases are pending.

    Jimena Díaz, consul of Guatemala in Phoenix, told the Arizona Star that on Friday another 130 will be transferred to a military base in Ventura County, California, one of several the Defense Department has made available to temporarily house the children.

    Around 300 are scheduled to leave Saturday, but she didn't know to where.

    Normally, Customs and Border Protection has to turn over the youth to the Office of Refugee Resettlement within 72 hours, but due to the surge, the agency has run out of space.

    The Border Patrol refurbished the old Factory 2-U warehouse in the mid 2000s to quickly process Mexican nationals, but it closed several years ago as the wave of immigrants slowed.

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    IT'S OFFICIAL: At Least 400 Illegal Alien Children Now Entering The U.S. Every Day



    Via Daily Mail
    More than 400 children a day are flooding illegally in to the U.S. it has emerged – a situation which further deepens the shocking humanitarian crisis along the border with Mexico.
    And the tide of border crossings by unaccompanied children mostly from Central America is not expected to end anytime soon.
    Local hotels were also packed out with the influx of government officials here to tackle the problem.
    The much needed response came after pictures of unaccompanied children lying on the floor of the large barren facility raised concerns of a humanitarian crisis.
    A wave of unaccompanied child immigrants have been initially arriving at a giant holding center in Texas at an alarming rate.
    ut the center can no longer accommodate large numbers of children and mothers traveling with their kids, forcing the federal government to open more facilities and move many to Nogales for processing.
    More than 160,000 immigrants have been apprehended in Texas’ Valley sector in the first eight months of this fiscal year, eclipsing the total for all of last year.
    This figure includes more than 33,000 unaccompanied children.
    It’s believed as many as 60,000 unaccompanied children will cross the Mexican border illegally this year in total.
    But America has been left astounded by the shocking conditions these children have been kept in – conditions so dire that border control agents fear the spread of disease.
    Thousands of children have been transported to Nogales, Arizona, and have reportedly become sickened by the food they have been given at the shelter.
    As many as 1,100 children are currently at the holding center.

    Keep reading


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