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Andrew Johnson - Dem. Congressman: 'Floored Me' to See Obama Shoot Pool Rather than Visit Border
At least one Democratic congressman is “very very upset” with the idea that...
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Dem. Congressman: ‘Floored Me’ to See Obama Shoot Pool Rather than Visit Border

By Andrew Johnson
July 9, 2014 12:29 PM
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At least one Democratic congressman is “very very upset” with the idea that President Obama was shooting in Denver with Colorado governor John Hickenlooper today rather than visiting the southwestern border.
“When I saw that, it just really floored me,” said Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas, who has been quite vocal in his criticism of the administration’s handling of the issue. “If he’s saying he’s too busy to go down to the border, but you have time to drink a beer, play pool, the optics and the appearance just mean he’s not paying attention to this humanitarian crisis.”
He said people living on border communities who are upset with the president’s attitude toward the situation — the president heads to Texas later on Wednesday for a fundraiser, but won’t be visiting the border while he’s in the state.
“He’s the president — he can decide not to go — but he really should go down there,” Cuellar said.

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It's Laughable How Much Cheaper It Would Be to Send Illegals Back Than Approve Obama's $3.8 Billion
However, it harms amnesty proponents' political plans.
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It’s Laughable How Much Cheaper It Would Be to Send Illegals Back Than Approve Obama’s $3.8 Billion

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Former Congressman Ernest Istook (R-Oklahoma) has a plan to deal with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who have arrived on the southern border in recent weeks: Fly them home.
More importantly, he said this can be achieved for 99.5% less than the $3.8 billion that President Barack Obama is asking for to house 30,000 illegal aliens for a year.
From his column in The Washington Times:

At the unofficial reported cost of $250 per person per day, President Barack Obama is proposing we spend $1.8 billion “to provide appropriate care for unaccompanied children.” That works out to 19,726 minors for a year.
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The $250 a day figure compares with the $667 one-way cost of an airline ticket from McAllen, Texas, to Guatemala City, Guatemala, according to both Orbitz and Priceline. The combined airfare for 29,358 passengers would be $19.6 million. That is one-half of 1 percent of President Obama’s overall $3.8 billion request.

Volume discounts and government rates would yield even lower fares. But even without discounts, sending everyone home right away saves taxpayers 99.5 percent!
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It’s also closer to fly them from McAllen to Guatemala City than to Murietta, California. Only 1,297 miles compared to 1,549 miles. And no protesters.

In fact, as Istook points out, repatriation of illegal aliens is the only legal solution to this crisis under federal law:

Before the language of that controversial 2008 statute outlines the red-tape processing, it explicitly states the goal of that process, namely that “the Secretary of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall develop policies and procedures to ensure that unaccompanied alien children in the United States are safely repatriated to their country of nationality or of last habitual residence.”

It’s the law, as Mr. President is so fond of saying; so what’s the hold up?

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ISTOOK: Flying illegals home would be 99.5 percent cheaper than Obama’s plan
We could fly all of the illegal aliens home for one-half of 1 percent of the $3.8...
www.washingtontimes.com|By Ernest Istook

ISTOOK: Flying illegals home would be 99.5 percent cheaper than Obama’s plan

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) talks about the immigration crisis at the southern border

By Ernest Istook
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

We taxpayers are expected to house, feed, clothe and care for almost 30,000 illegal aliens for a full year, according to the White House’s official request. That’s a small city.
Instead, we could fly all of them home for one-half of 1 percent of the $3.8 billion that President Obama proposes we spend. That’s a savings of 99.5 percent!

Most of his proposal is to pay living expenses. At the unofficial reported cost of $250 per person per day, President Barack Obama is proposing we spend $1.8 billion “to provide appropriate care for unaccompanied children.” That works out to 19,726 minors for a year. (The official term for them, written into federal statute, is “undocumented alien children.” Not undocumented immigrants, migrants or refugees. Those other terms are efforts at propaganda.)
In addition, Obama wants another $879 million “for detention and removal of apprehended undocumented adults traveling with children,” and “alternatives to detention programs” for these adults. He blends “removal” with “detention” to make it impossible to determine how many removals are planned.
If the money is all for detention, then the $250 per person reveals the plan is to house 9,632 adults for a year at taxpayers’ expense.
Combine 19,726 minors with 9,632 adults and you have 29,358 people. But it gets worse. The request is for a “supplemental appropriation.” In budget lingo, that typically means it’s for the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. If these funds don’t cover a full year, either the cost per person is much higher or the number of people is much higher.
If the daily cost per person is less than $250, then the small city of illegal aliens we’re supporting will be larger than 29,358.
Although Obama asks for lots of money to take care of people permanently, he gives zero details about a timeframe for deporting or repatriating any of the persons involved.

The $250 a day figure compares with the $667 one-way cost of an airline ticket from McAllen, Texas, to Guatemala City, Guatemala, according to both Orbitz and Priceline. The combined airfare for 29,358 passengers would be $19.6 million. That is one-half of 1 percent of President Obama’s overall $3.8 billion request. Volume discounts and government rates would yield even lower fares. But even without discounts, sending everyone home right away saves taxpayers 99.5 percent!
It’s also closer to fly them from McAllen to Guatemala City than to Murietta, California. Only 1,297 miles compared to 1,549 miles. And no protesters.
But what about the red-tape processing that Obama says gets in ther way? We know the president skirts inconvenient laws when he wants to do so. And although there is some red tape for the minors, there is no federal law that requires officials to drag their feet on deporting the thousands of adults newly arrived from Central America. And no red tape on the accompanied minors. All of them can be placed on planes pronto, arriving home far more quickly than it took them to journey to Texas. And arriving there more quickly than flying to California.
Regarding the unaccompanied juveniles, officials such as Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson don’t seem to have read the law. Johnson told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the top priority is “doing right by the children.” Actually, the law states the top priority is to repatriate those children to their country of origin.
Before the lanague of that controversial 2008 statute outlines the red-tape processing, it explicitly states the goal of that process, namely that “the Secretary of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall develop policies and procedures to ensure that unaccompanied alien children in the United States are safely repatriated to their country of nationality or of last habitual residence.”
That bears repeating: The statute says the goal is that the unaccompanied alien children “are safely repatriated to their country of nationality or of last habitual residence.”
Interestingly, that law foresees a problem if minors are released in the U.S. to custody of fellow illegal aliens. The statute requires officials to make sure that a potential custodian is someone who is trained to recognize his “responsibility to attempt to ensure the child’s appearance at all immigration proceedings.” Obviously, that disqualifies anyone who himself is in the country illegally.
We don’t have to borrow and spend another $3.8 billion to fix the problems created by President Obama’s irresponsible promotion of amnesty. It’s far cheaper to follow the law and to send people home. That also is the best way to discourage other people from following in their footsteps.
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It’s Laughable How Much It Would Cost To Deport Illegal Immigrants

in News, Politics / by Brandon Walker / on July 10, 2014 at 2:33 pm /



Compared to the cost of keeping the illegal immigrants, it is almost laughable how much it would cost to deport.
We have been hearing for awhile how President Obama went on his campaign funding tour, asking Congress to hand over $3.8 billion for his plan. Granted, a couple politicians got the last word in. Rick Perry refused to shake President Obama’s hand and made a point to tell him that his little trip to Texas was nothing more than a campaign finance stunt. The President’s refusal to visit the embattled areas prompted Senator Ted Cruz to send directions to the border towns for people asking where they could attend the President’s fundraisers.
In the end, the President showed how much he cared by showing up in Dallas to shoot pool and drink beer; never once glancing at the shots fired at DHS a few hundred miles away. Never once did he visit one of the abandoned buildings in which he wants to house these “children.” Never once did he even visit the Waco VA with thousands of veterans on waiting lists to die, all while he gives funding and medical care to illegal immigrants.
IJ Review got in contact with former Oklahoma Congressman Ernest Istook. He wrote up an article for the Washington Times. His mathematical assessment of the President’s pen and phone figures makes the actual cost to deport laughable when compared to the cost to keep them here. His plan was really quite simple and cheap in comparison: fly them home.

We taxpayers are expected to house, feed, clothe and care for almost 30,000 illegal aliens for a full year, according to the White House’s official request. That’s a small city.
Instead, we could fly all of them home for one-half of 1 percent of the $3.8 billion that President Obama proposes we spend. That’s a savings of 99.5 percent!
Most of his proposal is to pay living expenses. At the unofficial reported cost of $250 per person per day, President Barack Obama is proposing we spend $1.8 billion “to provide appropriate care for unaccompanied children.” That works out to 19,726 minors for a year. (The official term for them, written into federal statute, is “undocumented alien children.” Not undocumented immigrants, migrants or refugees. Those other terms are efforts at propaganda.)
In addition, Obama wants another $879 million “for detention and removal of apprehended undocumented adults traveling with children,” and “alternatives to detention programs” for these adults. He blends “removal” with “detention” to make it impossible to determine how many removals are planned.
If the money is all for detention, then the $250 per person reveals the plan is to house 9,632 adults for a year at taxpayers’ expense.
Combine 19,726 minors with 9,632 adults and you have 29,358 people. But it gets worse. The request is for a “supplemental appropriation.” In budget lingo, that typically means it’s for the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. If these funds don’t cover a full year, either the cost per person is much higher or the number of people is much higher.
If the daily cost per person is less than $250, then the small city of illegal aliens we’re supporting will be larger than 29,358.
Although Obama asks for lots of money to take care of people permanently, he gives zero details about a time frame for deporting or repatriating any of the persons involved. ~Washington Times

I’m stopping for a moment. Let me just say that $250 per day equals $91,250 per person for that year, all tax free.
As a parole officer, I made about $2142 per month, or roughly the guys and gals watching them will make $25, 704 a year not including travel, and that will be taxed. This is the cost that the President is proposing. It will cost the tax payer more then what most people make in a year in many fields.
Also the President doesn’t give a time frame, meaning that this is what it will cost per person every year. Every illegal alien under the President’s plan will make the equivalent of $91,250 per year! That is the cost to the taxpayer.
So what Istook proposes instead is quite simple.

The $250 a day figure compares with the $667 one-way cost of an airline ticket from McAllen, Texas, to Guatemala City, Guatemala, according to both Orbitz and Priceline. The combined airfare for 29,358 passengers would be $19.6 million. That is one-half of 1 percent of President Obama’s overall $3.8 billion request. Volume discounts and government rates would yield even lower fares. But even without discounts, sending everyone home right away saves taxpayers 99.5 percent!
It’s also closer to fly them from McAllen to Guatemala City than to Murietta, California. Only 1,297 miles compared to 1,549 miles. And no protesters.~Washington Times.

So what about all this red tape that the President states in his cost proposal? Turns out in 2008, Congress did look at the assessments and a law was passed that deals with just this issue.

Before the language of that controversial 2008 statute outlines the red-tape processing, it explicitly states the goal of that process, namely that “the Secretary of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall develop policies and procedures to ensure that unaccompanied alien children in the United States are safely repatriated to their country of nationality or of last habitual residence.”
That bears repeating: The statute says the goal is that the unaccompanied alien children “are safely repatriated to their country of nationality or of last habitual residence.”
Interestingly, that law foresees a problem if minors are released in the U.S. to custody of fellow illegal aliens. The statute requires officials to make sure that a potential custodian is someone who is trained to recognize his “responsibility to attempt to ensure the child’s appearance at all immigration proceedings.” Obviously, that disqualifies anyone who himself is in the country illegally.~ Washington Times.

As IJ Review states, the president is so fond of telling us when it comes to things like Obamacare, “It’s the law.”
Well, Mr. President, it’s the law like you said, so how bout it? What’s holding you up?
But then again, they broke the law to come here, you broke the law shutting out reporters, you broke the law to shut up DHS and Medical Staff, you broke the law to tell ICE not to do their job, and you broke the law releasing 36,000 felons that committed 88,000 felonies onto Texas streets to punish us. I won’t hold my breath to see you actually enforce the law.

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“The president just asked for $3.7 billion, for less than $20 million we can fly them all back first class. So think about how stupid our policy is.”



Unaccompanied Alien Children Program Cost $263 Million Already This Year
The federal program for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC)—which provides...
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Unaccompanied Alien Children Program Cost $263 Million Already This Year

Eighty-eight percent remain in United States

Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility / AP

BY: Elizabeth Harrington
July 10, 2014 5:00 am

The federal program for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC)—which provides long-term foster care, apparel, and interpreter services for thousands of young illegal immigrants, the majority of which are placed in the United States—has already cost $263 million this year.
The recent surge in underage illegal immigrants crossing the southern border has prompted President Barack Obama to ask for $3.7 billion in additional funding, $1.8 billion of which would go to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which administers the UAC program.
The program had a budget of $376.083 million last year, and is on pace to spend nearly $1 billion in 2014. HHS has requested a contingency fund for 2015, due to the “rapidly expanding Unaccompanied Alien Children program.”
The majority of funding goes to nonprofit organizations and charities that provide living arrangements, education, health care, vocational training, mental health services, and other services.
Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesperson for HHS’s Administration of Children and Families, said approximately 88 percent of minors within the program are placed with family members or a verified sponsor in the U.S.
The number of young illegal aliens flooding the border has skyrocketed in recent years. In 2009, only 6,639 unaccompanied alien children were resettled, and the number remained stable until 2011, with 7,120. In 2012, there were twice as many unaccompanied alien children at 14,271, the same year the administration announced its deferred action for young illegal aliens. By 2013 there were 25,498.
According to the Congressional Research Service, a total of 47,017 unaccompanied alien children have crossed the border this year.
The majority of funding for the UAC program goes towards foster care. Southwest Key, an Austin, Texas-based nonprofit that shelters unaccompanied alien children, is the largest government partner for the program, receiving grants worth $95,462,918 so far this fiscal year.
Nonprofits outside of border states also receive funding to shelter illegal alien children. The New Jersey Heartland Human Care Services in Chicago has received $19,118,403 this year, while the Union County Department of Human Services in New Jersey received $550,384 on March 20.
The influx of alien children has forced the government to place emergency orders for clothing, shelter, and interpreter services.
The government ordered $6,040 of “Mission Critical” footwear on June 12 for the “large influx of unaccompanied alien children along the Rio Grande Valley border.”
Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security spent $24,815 on children and infants’ apparel on June 13, and $13,339 on men’s outerwear June 27.
A sweatshirt order worth $3,428 from Promotions Plus, Inc. was also ordered on Jan. 1 for children being “transported from the southwest border to Chicago and Berks, Pa.”
More than $100,000 for telephone interpreter services were also ordered for the program at the end of June.
The president’s request for $3.7 billion in additional funding would go to HHS to provide shelter for the influx of young illegal aliens.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) suggested on Wednesday that it would be cheaper to fly the children back home first class.
“We’re putting a lot of kids at risk,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “Remember, this is organized crime that is selling this and these three countries that you can get them here and they’ll be here and they’re extracting large amounts of money and then abusing children as they carry them up here.”
“It’s terrible. The best way to stop that is to have airplanes landing every day bringing these children back to their country of origin,” he said.
“The president just asked for $3.7 billion, for less than $20 million we can fly them all back first class,” Coburn added. “So think about how stupid our policy is.”

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