Thread: TRICKY TRICKY! Look what President Obama is sticking in his 3.7Billion request! (pret

7/8/14 at 1:02 pm


TRICKY TRICKY! Look what President Obama is sticking in his 3.7Billion request! (pretty shrewd!) Obama

I was reading about President Obama’s request for 3.7Billion to address some of the problems at the border and noted this:


“….As part of the emergency spending request, about $625 million would go to fight wildfires in Western states. CLICK HERE


Why put wildfires in this? What does this have to do with immigration? So that no Republican Senator or Member of the House can complain about the 3.7Billion and vote against it. If he or she does, you can be sure the political ad come November will be “….voted AGAINST funds to help fight wildfires here at home…”


These should be two separate bills ..wildfires…and immigration…and then vote on each.


By the way, if the White House is going to load up the immigration emergency funding bill with wildfires….how about sticking in $25.00 for long distance calls from the White House to the President of Mexico to help get our marine out of prison by urging fast track of the judicial process? And if there is left over phone money, maybe Secretary of State John Kerry could call, too?


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Obama's latest political slush fund revealed.
President Obama requests $3.7 billion to deal with children illegally crossing U.S. border



Immigrant families and children's advocates rally in response to President Barack Obama's statement on the crisis of unaccompanied children and families illegally entering the United States, outside the Los Angeles Federal building Monday, July 7, 2014. A top Obama administration official says no one, not even children trying to escape violent countries, can illegally enter the United States without eventually facing deportation proceedings. (AP Photo/ Nick Ut) (NIck Ut)

By Ray Jablonski,
Northeast Ohio Media Group
on July 08, 2014 at 11:57 AM,

WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Obama is requesting $3.7 billion in emergency funding from Congress to address the issue of illegal immigrant children coming into the country from Mexico.


The White House says the money would help increase the detention, care and transportation of unaccompanied children, the Associated Press is reporting. It says the money would increase the capacity of immigration courts, increase prosecution of smuggling networks and help Central American countries repatriate border crossers sent back from the United States.

The request for money did not include proposals for legislative changes the White House wants. White House officials said today they still intend to work with Congress to increase the administration's authority to deport minor border crossers.

As part of the emergency spending request, about $625 million would go to fight wildfires in Western states.

The $3.7 billion is about twice the amount the White House previously signaled it would request, NBC News is reporting.

The funds include $1.1 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, $433 million to Customs and Border Protection, $64 million for the Department of Justice, $300 million to the State Department and $1.8 billion to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The administration previously indicated that it would request about $2 billion but would wait to release the details until Congress returned from a week-long break.

The White House says the money is necessary to cover costs like increased man-hours for border patrol agents and aerial surveillance teams, legal services for children in immigration proceedings, the hiring of 40 additional teams of immigration judges, and care for unaccompanied children while they are in the country. Almost $300 million would go towards efforts to "repatriate and reintegrate migrants to Central America" and address the underlying economic and security causes of the spike in child migrants.

"Without supplemental funding," the administration said in a fact sheet released today, "agencies will not have sufficient resources to adequately address this situation."

Bloomberg News reports more than 52,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border from Oct. 1 through June 15, about double the total in a similar period a year earlier, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported. Most of the children are smuggled through Central America and Mexico, according to the White House.


The $1.8 billion that would go to the Department of Health and Human Services to provide care for unaccompanied children and refugees already here is a provision likely to draw controversy from congressional Republicans who argue the president has not been aggressive enough about border security or deportations.


Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, told Reuters any measure should be paid for with cuts to other government programs.


"Absolutely it ought to be offset," Shelby said, adding that money could be taken from Obama's landmark healthcare law, a move that likely would be opposed by the White House and congressional Democrats.


The White House said Monday most unaccompanied minors flooding into the United States from Central America will not be allowed to stay.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said most of the border-crossers would not qualify to stay in the United States. Those who possibly could get asylum are children who have been victims of domestic abuse. Minors who fled because of gang-related violence could have a harder time qualifying, according to immigration experts.

Both the House and Senate must approve the spending request.
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CHARTER FLIGHTARE CHEAPER - SEND THEM BACK - NOW. EVERYTHING THIS ADMINISTRATION DOES IS GAMESMANSHIP AND LIES FOR MONEY TO PAY OFF IT'S CRONIES.

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