April 13, 2015

The Newsday article on illegal alien children again gets it wrong. The article cites an analysis by Marc Rosenbaum, “Unaccompanied Child Migration to the United States: The Tension between Protection and Prevention” which is a biased piece. Mr. Rosenbaum illogical view is out of the mainstream and lacks common sense. He does not refer to children that are illegally in the United States as illegal aliens, they are, “Unauthorized Immigrant Youth”.  He does not refer to people that illegally travel into the United States as illegal aliens; they are, “Unauthorized and Humanitarian Flows”.  He was a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow detailed to the office of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy during the 2006 Senate immigration debate and was involved in crafting the Senate's immigration legislation in 2006 and 2007.  We all remember the Senate legislation which they tried to force down the throats of the American people by attaching it a defense bill calling amnesty immigration reform.

The claim that 39,000 children will illegally enter the United States this federal fiscal year is what is known as a guess without any hypothesis.  There is no way anyone would know how many are going to come into the United States illegally as there are many variables. Will the administration continue to encourage the flow? What preventative measures have been put into place since the last run on the border? If we don't even know how many are in the United States illegally today, last month, last year or in the last decade, how can we provide any estimate under any circumstance?

In his article, Mr. Rosenbaum is stated, “They are coming from similar communities and are headed to similar communities, the local impact is that whatever challenges school districts and local health care systems are under already are likely to increase."  What should be stated is the fact that unchecked illegal immigration is creating unnecessary burdens on local government without any accountability by the federal government.  What is clear is the fact that he and others care more for people that are illegally in the country and we should provide unlimited care to who ever makes it over the border.

“Immigrant advocates and other groups, including New York Communities for Change and the Long Island chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, mobilized to protect the children's rights.”  Quite interesting, if the illegal immigrant advocates and others are so interested in children’s rights, they would be in Mexico demanding that the Mexican government stop the massive flow of people illegally entering Mexico to illegally flow into the United States. They would get the message to parents from countries south of Mexico that the trip is dangerous and quite frankly insane to shove their children out the front door to enter other countries illegally to be cared for by the taxpayers of a sovereign nation.  This irresponsible act is defined as child neglect.  Would anyone in this nation send their child from New York to Los Angeles on their own to mooch off their relatives? No, of course not.  But you do not hear a peep from these “immigrant” advocacy groups about the dangers including possible death that the children face due to the child neglect on the part of their parents.

Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) recently announced that he and Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington) will reintroduce a proposal to send emergency funding to school districts that are receiving the immigrant kids.  Why would they reintroduce the proposal when it failed the first time around?  Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) gave the following reason, "Because of a failed federal policy, financial responsibility must fall on the federal government and not the Long Island taxpayer".   No Turncoat Peter King, it is up to the Federal Government to protect We the People, the taxpayers, from people illegally entering the United States. Its not taking the easy way out looking for more taxpayer money to support people illegally in the United States.  Rep. King and Israel are nothing more than illegal alien advocates from the Federal Government.  By the way, where does  Peter King  think the Federal Government receives their revenue from?  That right, the money comes from the taxpayers.  So what Peter King and Steve Israel want is money from taxpayers across America to reimburse our school districts so they can support even more illegal aliens on Long Island. Okay so my school district tax levy will be 3% instead of 5%.  That is too easy. How about putting forth a bill that prevents people illegally in the United States from receiving taxpayer funded entitlements?  How about a constitutional amendment that prevents citizenship for children born in the U.S. with mothers who are here illegally? Its time to end chain migration.

“So far this fiscal year, 12,065 unaccompanied minors have been referred for resettlement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said a spokesman for the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, which shelters the children until they are released to relatives or sponsors. About 620 of those had come to Long Island and New York City as of February -- 178 in Suffolk and 113 in Nassau.”  In Nassau County with an average cost per pupil of $23,000, the cost to Nassau County residents is $2,599,000 in one fiscal school year.  While it may not sound like much, once we add in special learning classes, free breakfast and lunch, transportation, added ESL teachers and other sundries, the cost for K-12 will baloon to  over $33,787,000 just for the Federal placement of 113 illegal alien students in Nassau County alone. 

“In addition to unaccompanied minors, children also arrive in the United States with their mothers or other relatives, a trend that is expected to continue. Those children are counted separately in federal statistics as being part of family units.”  So we are to skew the numbers to please the illegal alien advocacy groups into fooling the taxpayer’s as though the problem is not as bad as it seems?

Victoria Campos, an immigration attorney with offices in Huntington Station, Bay Shore and Riverhead, "I tend to agree that there is going to be a second wave, a lot of the minors that have come are here because something traumatic has happened in their lives, and conditions in their countries haven't improved in the past year.  They are fleeing a host of ills, including high crime, gang violence and poverty in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Cities in those countries have some of the highest murder rates in the world.”  Really Mrs. Campos? Have you been to Chicago, President Obama’s old stomping grounds? It is a murder capitol that rivals cities in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.  There are thousands of Legal Taxpaying Citizens and their children that are murdered, raped, sexually molested, robbed, victims of ID theft, burglarized, kidnapped and whatever else you can think of that are committed by people illegally in this nation.   Some have been in the United States for years, some have been deported more than once. What about their rights?

The “recent surge” in the illegal border crossings have been felt more acutely where there are established illegal immigrant populations, which is true.  That is due to the fact that illegal aliens were left unchecked to  establish themselves illegally in communities instead of being removed early on. As nothing was done early on, it is out of control. It has been out of control for the last 20 years.

The Hempstead School District was in the cross hairs of government officials because they were turned away last fall. The focus whould have been on the resources that were being taking away from the children of legal taxpaying parents in the Hempstead School District.  That is your government and its bureaucracies not representing We the People. They are representing everyone else except the People and have no concern for the People's interests. Roger Tilles, Long Island member of the state Board of Regents which sets education policy stated that he is “very concerned" about districts that have received the bulk of the immigrant children.  "It's a bind not just for the schools, but it's a bind for the kids that are already in the schools, because with a limit to what a school can raise on property tax caps and increased students . . . there is no place to go, except take away from existing programs." BINGO, Mr. Roger Tilles; what do you think the property taxpayer’s of Long Island have been saying for 25 years?  I will give you a hint, you said it, “there is no place to go, except take away from existing programs”. 

Norman Wagner, board president in the Central Islip School District states, “A large number of undocumented immigrant minors were resettled there and it far exceeded our student enrollment projections. We will educate every child; however, unannounced placements of students by the federal government must be funded by the agency which placed these students.”  Either Mr. Wagner has no inkling of how the government operates considering his position on the board for a taxpayer funded governmental institution or he is being disingenuous to the people of the Central Islip School District.  The Federal Government can not only place the illegal alien children anywhere in the country without the public or law enforcement's knowledge, the best part is that they do not have to provide any funding.

Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director of the Center for Immigration Studies is correct when she states, “Unless the federal government dramatically changes its policies on how they deal with the new arrivals, we can expect to see almost the same number of new arrivals as we did last year, because there's no reason for them to stay in Central America.”  Well its not our problem to to care for the children of Central America by bringing all of them to America.  The federal Government dramatically changed its policies when they allowed chain migration to flow into America and they have not stopped since. They are actually making it easier, cheaper and much more desirable for people to enter illegally in the U.S. The result will be balkanization, bankruping America, flooding the job market with cheap labor, lowering wages for taxpaying citizens, disrupting voting districts and cheapens the privilege of being a citizen of our exceptional nation.

The Migration Policy Institute's analysis calls the federal government's efforts "a success" because the flow of immigrant children is declining. It credited, in part, a "multifaceted regional policy response" by the U.S., in partnership with Mexico and Central American nations, that "greatly reduced" illegal crossings since last year.  So as we can see, the so called “analysis” sees a success from 53,500 children who arrived in the past fiscal year, which ended September 30, 2014 to a projected 39,000 children who are to arrive illegally into the United States this fiscal year ending September 30, 2015. If the projected 14,500 difference of children illegally entering the United States is considered a “success”; I would hate to see what they consider a failure.

Marsha Catron, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees several immigration agencies, said “The federal government sent more patrol agents to secure the border, built detention space and launched a campaign in Central America to highlight "the dangers of the journey."  That is false; they sent more Border Patrol Agents to babysit at the detention facilities.  Look at the play of words Mrs. Catron used, “patrol agents”, not “border patrol agents”, there is a difference. Patrol agents are classified as not being at a specific location to a border and border patrol agents are classified as patrolling a border.  This was confirmed by  Chris Cabrera, a Border Patrol agent testifying on behalf of the National Border Patrol Council on March 17, 2015 which represents 16,500 agents. In his testimony he stated, "I want to be crystal clear, the border is not secure, agents who report more than 20 illegal border-crossers at a given spot, based on counting footprints, are punished and learn to keep their counts artificially lower."  Just for another interesting tidbit; considering Homeland Security's claim of a reduction in border crossings, Howard Buffett, son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who owns 2,375 acres of ranchland along the border in Cochise County stated, “Congress should strengthen border security separately from reforming immigration, our insecure border creates a serious humanitarian crisis by encouraging people to try illegal crossings.”

The Obama administration began a program of stepped up "in-country" refugee processing so that immigrants here legally can petition to have their children come to the U.S. rather than seek to have them smuggled.  As you can see, the Federal Government puts more trust in foreign nations to decide who to send to America instead of letting Immigration and Customs do their job.  What the President did was setup processing stations in countries that are complacent on sending their citizenry illegally into other nations and has streamlined the process which will now provide easier access to chain migration to immigrants that are in the United States legally who were breaking the law by smuggling their children illegally over the border. Remember President Obama is close to granting Amnesty to anywhere from 5,000,000 to 11,000,000 people illegally in the U.S. who then can petition for their offspring, siblings, parents, relatives and loved ones.  Once here they will be placed anywhere in the United States by the Federal Government, and they can sign up for free healthcare along with free schooling.

The response to the Newsday article on "unaccompanied minors" clearly provides the facts involving the federal government's duplicity in not protecting We the People of the United States of America.  The utmost mandated job the Federal Government has to fulfill is to protect our nation which includes the border. Our government is refusing to protect the People and are overwhelmingly catering to people that are not supposed to be in this country.  We are now at a point that We the People that are born in this nation or naturalized are treated as second class citizens while people illegally here are given all that is free and then some at the expense of the second class citizens. Thirty nine thousand and counting.