Obama wants to fly illegals directly into the country – starting in Honduras.
He would, by executive action, screen the illegals in their country and fly them directly into the US by labeling them as refugees.
Hoping to stem the recent surge of migrants at the Southwest border, the Obama administration is considering whether to allow hundreds of minors and young adults from Honduras into the United States without making the dangerous trek through Mexico, according to a draft of the proposal.
If approved, the plan would direct the government to screen thousands of children and youths in Honduras to see if they can enter the United States as refugees or on emergency humanitarian grounds. It would be the first American refugee effort in a nation reachable by land to the United States, the White House said, putting the violence in Honduras on the level of humanitarian emergencies in Haiti and Vietnam, where such programs have been conducted in the past amid war and major crises.
Critics of the plan were quick to pounce, saying it appeared to redefine the legal definition of a refugee and would only increase the flow of migration to the United States. Administration officials said they believed the plan could be enacted through executive action, without congressional approval, as long as it did not increase the total number of refugees coming into the country.
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By moving decisions on refugee claims to Honduras, the plan aims to slow the rush of minors crossing into the United States illegally from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, which has overwhelmed the border this year. More than 45,000 unaccompanied minors from those three nations have arrived since Oct. 1, straining federal resources to the point that some agencies will exhaust their budgets by next month, the secretary of Homeland Security has said.
Many of the children, particularly in Honduras, are believed to be fleeing dangerous street gangs, which forcibly recruit members and extort home and business owners. The United Nations estimates that 70,000 gang members operate in the three nations.
Administration officials stressed that no decision had been made to move forward, saying the idea was one of many being discussed by officials at the White House and the Departments of State, Homeland Security, Justice, and Health and Human Services.
Among the factors surrounding the decision are how many people in Honduras would be eligible to apply for the program, and how many would probably be approved.
The proposal, prepared by several federal agencies, says the pilot program under consideration would cost up to $47 million over two years, assuming 5,000 applied and about 1,750 people were accepted. If successful, it would be adopted in Guatemala and El Salvador as well.
It is unclear how the administration determined those estimates, given that since Oct. 1 more than 16,500 unaccompanied children traveled to the United States from Honduras alone.
Children would be interviewed by American immigration employees trained to deal with minors, and a resettlement center would be set up in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, with assistance from international organizations like the International Organization for Migration.
The plan would be similar to a recent bill introduced by Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona, who proposed increasing the number of refugee visas to the three Central American countries by 5,000 each.
According to the draft, the administration is considering opening the program to people under 21. It also suggested offering entry on emergency humanitarian grounds — known as humanitarian parole — to some of the applicants who did not qualify for refugee status.
We need to be there when they get off and put them on another plane back to where they came from.If they don’t want to go shoot the bastards! I am sick of this $#%&!@*!
That’s a bull$#%&!@* lie Congress is not going to approve him to spend that kind of money finally goes into the United States the house in a committee will not approve it if he doesn’t against their decision grounds for impeachment
So, a president wants to breaks more laws, to gain votes for democrats? Because he doesn’t care about you, me or immigrants just setting our socialist nation up for generations of democrats! God bless the USA, sorry obama fu**ed the USA. He may think he’s god!
Don’t believe everything you read granite Obama is scooting around the issue who was coming here he’s doing his best to avoid it I see it this way he’s on his way out it’s going to take years the clean up this mess believe me its going to cost us money and it’s going to cost us big unless we get the military along the borders stop this mess in some cases I think the things you have the permission to shoot to kill depending upon what they’re dealing with this country does not belong pool pro Obama the promise to you and me the taxpayers the ones that have gone over and pulled for freedom for us as well is four people in the other countries I think its time to close there’s to Mexico and stop helping them my opinion we should make Mexico a state goin in take over their government arrest corrupt officials put them in prison like we did Marcos a member armed forces 4 sets of drug cartels in their drug lords can be done with it
If they come we will send them North. Damn Yankees keep voting for this dumb president. Well you can deal with the trash he puts on our door step. And yes I don’t care about these kids either. Watch channel 13 they have donations to save kids ask them for money.
I say impeach congress they are letting this man screw up everything. Maybe not Ted Cruz but most of them anyways. Lazy bunch of freeloaders sitting in a chair laughing while Obama screws it up again.
We need to be there when they get off and put them on another plane back to where they came from.If they don’t want to go shoot the bastards! I am sick of this $#%&!@*!
Who in the hell is going to pay we are the tax payer the DNC put his ass in let them pay
That’s a bull$#%&!@* lie Congress is not going to approve him to spend that kind of money finally goes into the United States the house in a committee will not approve it if he doesn’t against their decision grounds for impeachment
So, a president wants to breaks more laws, to gain votes for democrats? Because he doesn’t care about you, me or immigrants just setting our socialist nation up for generations of democrats! God bless the USA, sorry obama fu**ed the USA. He may think he’s god!
He thinks he’s a Dictator..!!!
Don’t believe everything you read granite Obama is scooting around the issue who was coming here he’s doing his best to avoid it I see it this way he’s on his way out it’s going to take years the clean up this mess believe me its going to cost us money and it’s going to cost us big unless we get the military along the borders stop this mess in some cases I think the things you have the permission to shoot to kill depending upon what they’re dealing with this country does not belong pool pro Obama the promise to you and me the taxpayers the ones that have gone over and pulled for freedom for us as well is four people in the other countries I think its time to close there’s to Mexico and stop helping them my opinion we should make Mexico a state goin in take over their government arrest corrupt officials put them in prison like we did Marcos a member armed forces 4 sets of drug cartels in their drug lords can be done with it
Sens his useless ass there and leave jim
He is an idiot, more each day. get rid of him before he bankrupts us completely.
If they come we will send them North. Damn Yankees keep voting for this dumb president. Well you can deal with the trash he puts on our door step. And yes I don’t care about these kids either. Watch channel 13 they have donations to save kids ask them for money.
I say impeach congress they are letting this man screw up everything. Maybe not Ted Cruz but most of them anyways. Lazy bunch of freeloaders sitting in a chair laughing while Obama screws it up again.