The Pied Piper of Washington D.C.
Last week I wrote about the problem of immigrant children flooding the U.S.-Mexican border and the case of one two year old child--Adrian--who was brought by a presumed smuggler to the U.S. before being identified and returned to his mother in Durango, Mexico.
In just a week the situation has worsened significantly. To put what is happening in perspective for my readers, I moved out of the El Paso, Texas area May 1, 2014. Today, June 17, 2014, illegal immigrants are swarming into the city at a rate we have never seen before. My brother, Chris, who has been an operations manager with a local broadcast network affiliate for over twenty years and whose wife is the news director at the same station, sent me this email on Friday afternoon. I am reprinting it with his permission:
Are you keeping up with the news on these immigrants flooding into the country? It is crazy here in El Paso, We have bus loads of thousands of women and children who are coming up from Central America because they have heard that Obama is going to give their children amnesty. This is what they have actually told our news teams when we go interview them.
Finding them is no problem, we just go to the bus terminals and they are standing there waiting to go into the interior.
So the Border Patrol is picking them up all over the Southwest border, busing them to El Paso, where they are being directed to these local organizations who are supposed to care for immigrants. The folks who are supposed to be helping them are interviewing them, getting the names of anyone in the country who knows them and can put them up. When they make contact with a family member or friend somewhere in the US, they help the immigrants get bus tickets and arrange for them to be picked up by their families in New York, or Washington, or where ever. Before the Border Patrol releases them, they are given a court date and told they need to show up for it and are put into the system to have their case reviewed, which we are told will take several years to get around to because of backlogs. Of course, there is nothing to force these people to show up for any hearings and there are literally thousands of them streaming in daily.
It is the craziest thing I have seen. [DC] has literally opened the borders and we are swimming in them in El Paso. Buses coming in everyday.
Chris
And then yesterday I received this email:
Everything is the same here in El Paso We are getting overrun by illegals. Yesterday the Feds flew a plane load of them to the EP airport and let them loose. Lovely.
Chris
I am also hearing stories that many of these "kids" are seventeen or eighteen years old and are filling up the city. Reportedly they're hanging out in bands in retail parking lots begging for money. An influx of jobless, parentless youth with no skills and minimal, if any, education, cannot end well for El Paso or for the U.S. as they continue to spread through the nation.
Driving this flood of illegal child immigrants are policies like "The Dream Act" which promise to give amnesty to the children of immigrants. Of course, that promise was originally supposedly predicated on the concept that these children were the unintended victims of their parents' illegal behavior--they had no say in being brought to a nation that became the only country they had ever called home and it was, therefore, inhumane to deport them. Now, however, we are seeing a flood of underage minors actively engaging in illegal immigration because they perceive that they have a free ticket to the U.S. The Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal spotlighted this issue today in an interview with a woman from Central America whose fifteen year old son chose to cross illegally into the U.S.
Anybody left in the U.S. who has any illusions that policies that are fostering this influx of illegal immigration are humane needs to go back and read "The Pied Piper of Hamlin." In the poem, the piper lures away the village children with promises of a lifetime of delicious food and fun only to take them into the heart of the mountain where they disappear and are never heard from again. Likewise, the Obama Administration has become the Pied Piper of D.C., promising a glorious future it cannot possibly deliver. At a time when our social service programs are financially strapped, over 100 million Americans are out of the workforce and a reported twenty percent of American households do not have one single family member who is working, the Obama Administration has led tens of thousands of young people to believe that they will find work and prosperity in this country. In reality, with no education, poor English skills and limited opportunities, many will undoubtedly end up in crime or prostitution to survive.
At its heart, the failure of the Obama Administration's immigration policies is the failure of all liberalism--which assumes that there will always be money and resources to pay for every program and to support every person. It is the epic failure that stems from a government that refuses to follow the laws, that invites open immigration with no vision or plan for how to integrate the newcomers into our society. It is the failure of a government that refuses to recognize that immigration should and must, like any other successful relationship, be mutually beneficial. The immigrants must offer something to our society other than just their own needs. Simply being young is not enough to make a person a desirable future citizen.
What is happening in El Paso and other border communities is a crisis and a tragedy. But if we as a nation do not start dealing with this quickly it is a crisis that will not stay confined to the border. Congress needs to take action immediately to do whatever it can to stop this flow of migrants before our whole nation begins to suffer from the overload and these children have to face a lifetime of bad consequences from having been lied to about life in the United States.
Alexandra Swann is the author of No Regrets: How Homeschooling Earned me a Master's Degree at Age Sixteen and several other books. Her novel, The Planner, about an out of control, environmentally-driven federal government implementing Agenda 21, is available on Kindle and in paperback. For more information, visit her website at http://www.frontier2000.net.
In just a week the situation has worsened significantly. To put what is happening in perspective for my readers, I moved out of the El Paso, Texas area May 1, 2014. Today, June 17, 2014, illegal immigrants are swarming into the city at a rate we have never seen before. My brother, Chris, who has been an operations manager with a local broadcast network affiliate for over twenty years and whose wife is the news director at the same station, sent me this email on Friday afternoon. I am reprinting it with his permission:
Are you keeping up with the news on these immigrants flooding into the country? It is crazy here in El Paso, We have bus loads of thousands of women and children who are coming up from Central America because they have heard that Obama is going to give their children amnesty. This is what they have actually told our news teams when we go interview them.
Finding them is no problem, we just go to the bus terminals and they are standing there waiting to go into the interior.
So the Border Patrol is picking them up all over the Southwest border, busing them to El Paso, where they are being directed to these local organizations who are supposed to care for immigrants. The folks who are supposed to be helping them are interviewing them, getting the names of anyone in the country who knows them and can put them up. When they make contact with a family member or friend somewhere in the US, they help the immigrants get bus tickets and arrange for them to be picked up by their families in New York, or Washington, or where ever. Before the Border Patrol releases them, they are given a court date and told they need to show up for it and are put into the system to have their case reviewed, which we are told will take several years to get around to because of backlogs. Of course, there is nothing to force these people to show up for any hearings and there are literally thousands of them streaming in daily.
It is the craziest thing I have seen. [DC] has literally opened the borders and we are swimming in them in El Paso. Buses coming in everyday.
Chris
And then yesterday I received this email:
Everything is the same here in El Paso We are getting overrun by illegals. Yesterday the Feds flew a plane load of them to the EP airport and let them loose. Lovely.
Chris
I am also hearing stories that many of these "kids" are seventeen or eighteen years old and are filling up the city. Reportedly they're hanging out in bands in retail parking lots begging for money. An influx of jobless, parentless youth with no skills and minimal, if any, education, cannot end well for El Paso or for the U.S. as they continue to spread through the nation.
Driving this flood of illegal child immigrants are policies like "The Dream Act" which promise to give amnesty to the children of immigrants. Of course, that promise was originally supposedly predicated on the concept that these children were the unintended victims of their parents' illegal behavior--they had no say in being brought to a nation that became the only country they had ever called home and it was, therefore, inhumane to deport them. Now, however, we are seeing a flood of underage minors actively engaging in illegal immigration because they perceive that they have a free ticket to the U.S. The Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal spotlighted this issue today in an interview with a woman from Central America whose fifteen year old son chose to cross illegally into the U.S.
Anybody left in the U.S. who has any illusions that policies that are fostering this influx of illegal immigration are humane needs to go back and read "The Pied Piper of Hamlin." In the poem, the piper lures away the village children with promises of a lifetime of delicious food and fun only to take them into the heart of the mountain where they disappear and are never heard from again. Likewise, the Obama Administration has become the Pied Piper of D.C., promising a glorious future it cannot possibly deliver. At a time when our social service programs are financially strapped, over 100 million Americans are out of the workforce and a reported twenty percent of American households do not have one single family member who is working, the Obama Administration has led tens of thousands of young people to believe that they will find work and prosperity in this country. In reality, with no education, poor English skills and limited opportunities, many will undoubtedly end up in crime or prostitution to survive.
At its heart, the failure of the Obama Administration's immigration policies is the failure of all liberalism--which assumes that there will always be money and resources to pay for every program and to support every person. It is the epic failure that stems from a government that refuses to follow the laws, that invites open immigration with no vision or plan for how to integrate the newcomers into our society. It is the failure of a government that refuses to recognize that immigration should and must, like any other successful relationship, be mutually beneficial. The immigrants must offer something to our society other than just their own needs. Simply being young is not enough to make a person a desirable future citizen.
What is happening in El Paso and other border communities is a crisis and a tragedy. But if we as a nation do not start dealing with this quickly it is a crisis that will not stay confined to the border. Congress needs to take action immediately to do whatever it can to stop this flow of migrants before our whole nation begins to suffer from the overload and these children have to face a lifetime of bad consequences from having been lied to about life in the United States.
Alexandra Swann is the author of No Regrets: How Homeschooling Earned me a Master's Degree at Age Sixteen and several other books. Her novel, The Planner, about an out of control, environmentally-driven federal government implementing Agenda 21, is available on Kindle and in paperback. For more information, visit her website at http://www.frontier2000.net.
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Unfortunately, what you are seeing is the success of the Obama Administration's immigration policies. The strategy we are witnessing was formally presented in an article in "The Nation" by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven way back in 1966. Their object, at that time, was to overwhelm state welfare systems across the nation causing them to collapse and thereby creating a crisis that would force a national solution to poverty and strengthen the Democratic Party. The Cloward/Piven strategy is to overwhelm a system and bring about its collapse. This creates a crisis, which demands a quick solution. The solution is a system that was prepared before the crisis and is ready to quickly put in place with little analysis or push back; there is no time for that in a crisis. As a Progressive, Obama would be familiar with Cloward Piven. He surly knew his version of the Dream act would overwhelm the system with what we are now seeing on the border. If the Congress doesn't solve the problem post haste, (Harry Reid will never let that happen except through open border Comprehensive Immigration Reform - including amnesty) the system will collapse and we will be in crisis. That will give Obama his excuse to take Executive action with his "pen and phone" to resolve this crisis (that he caused) with a version of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which was prepared before the crisis. We have got to do it NOW ... for the children. We are in the endgame already, and I haven’t seen any conservative commentators or politicians commenting about this strategy. Getting his policy is Obama's definition of success – the trauma the children are going through, (being sent from Central America to the USA in the care of coyotes and then abandoned to be picked up by border authorities) or the cost to the country are not even side issues for Obama. Obama's plan is mutually beneficial - The immigrants get US Government Assistance, and the Democrats get future voters.
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Unfortunately that is absolutely true. And Congress does seem oblivious to it.It may seem cruel, but these kids should be sent back. My brother tells me that they are roaming in bands accosting people for change in parking lots. They have no skills, no work visas, no education, etc etc. This is a horrible situation for everyone concerned. The only solution is to send them back to their home countries...immediately.
Your solution is best for America, but liberal commentator, Kirsten Powers, in her most arrogant voice and face schooled Bill O’Reilly on the other solution just yesterday. Paraphrasing – “This magnificent country has the money to support the current 50,000 children and their mothers, and if there are 100,000 or several hundred thousand more, we have enough money for them too. That is the only Christian response to their needs.” That is the progressive solution to the problem you describe, and they do it by throwing their version of Christianity in our face. All the progressives have to do is wait it out until the crisis is big enough to inflame the population to the point that they demand Obama to ignore the cold-hearted conservatives and implement a program to help the children. This may not occur until there are significant numbers dying (possibly from diseases they bring with them). And if it comes to that, don’t think for a minute the progressives will feel a twinge of guilt over what they will have wrought. The border control can’t send them back; Obama won’t let it. Congress can’t send them back; Harry Reid won’t let it. Arizona and Texas won’t send them back; they have no authority. You can’t send them back – I can’t send them back. This immigration battle is already out of reach. (Hope I’m wrong about that) It seems that the Liberals, so often, are a step ahead of us. What we need to focus on is to get rid of Reid. Then somehow, Justice Roberts has to get a backbone. Finally, we have to find a Republican that can beat Hillary. But to start with, if Harry survives the next election as Senate Majority Leader, Obama will have a free hand for two and a half more years. With that time, I don’t think America gets out of the fundamental change Obama predicted five days before his election. Of course, an honest, well-informed press telling the truth could inflame the populace in another direction. The people could slam the breaks on this runaway mess real fast.
I agree with you 100%. Kirsten Powers is a nitwit who pushes leftist ideology through Christianity.The good news is that a lot of Americans are fed up. We saw that with the David Brat/Eric Cantor election. If we can get the Senate and get some solid conservatives in the House we can still impact the outcome. So 2014 is our chance--maybe our last chance.
