How soon before we truly have de facto open borders? (update)

Last updated on: June 11, 2014 at 10:21 am by Jane the Actuary

How soon before we truly have de facto open borders? (update) 2014-06-11T10:21:00-06:00 Jane the Actuary

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Here’s Drudge this morning:

And here’s one of those links: “Obama ‘committed to escalating lawlessness’” — a commentary by Sen. Jeff Sessions on breitbart.com.

I don’t really have too much to say on this; or, rather, I don’t really think I have anything to offer besides just linking to what others have written. But I find it all very worrisome. The administration is claiming — either out of willful deception or stupidity — that the surge in minor illegals (up 2000%) has nothing to do with U.S. immigration policy and the “Deferred Action for Child Arrivals” executive amnesty in particular, because, they say,

‘Neither the bill which passed the Senate last year, nor the deferred action program for childhood arrivals would benefit these kids,’ she continued. ‘They both have cutoff dates. You had to have been in the country by a particular date in order to qualify for either of those things.’

But it’s just playing stupid to say that these cutoff dates are meaningful. The U.S. has signaled, and continues to signal, that minors arriving in the United States have a special status. If a minor brought to the U.S. in 2010 has the “human right” (as some activists and government officials have said) to be granted legal status here, it stands to reason that the same will be true of a minor arriving in 2014 — and the fact that these children aren’t immediately shipped home and are, often, apparently, reunited by our government with illegal-immigrant parents, makes that clear. (What’s more: are these children really all from Central America? It would seem that word would get around pretty quickly to Mexican families: “tell your kid to claim they’re from Guatemala so they can stay.”)

This whole situation is becoming more and more disturbing. The message from the Obama administration is basically a mobster-like, “pass the legislation I’m demanding or I’ll do what I want anyway,” with indications that the administration is pursuing a very wide amnesty; in April the Tribune reported that they were considering new policies stating that only individuals who had arrived within the two weeks prior to apprehension and had no family ties would be deported. There are even calls for prior deportees to be let back into the country.

There are further reports that word has gotten around that border crossers of all ages are neither being deported nor detained but processed and given court dates (by bureaucrats living in a fantasy world in which they will show up for court), and there’s a movement to encourage border-crossers to simply claim asylum — not because their claim is true, but because that’ll get them released with a temporary legal status and buy them time to disappear.

Part of me wants to say, “fine, let’s give up and open the border” — and in exchange, Mexico surrenders its sovereignty. We send our soldiers in to smash the cartels, send our oil companies in to manage the natural resources, with the profits going to the U.S. treasury, we apply a special billionaires tax to Carlos Slim, etc.

But the reality of this — the fact that our southern border is melting away — is frightening, and all it takes is for word to get around that this has happened for true chaos to set in.

UPDATE: a new link from Drudge, indirectly: “Rumors of U.S. haven for families spur rise in illegal immigration” in the LA Times. Families in Central America, single moms and small children, are hearing that “parents with children are allowed to stay in the United States indefinitely, according to Guatemalan consular officials and parents who are making these trips.” And the U.S. government officials dispute that, saying, no, families will be placed into deportation proceedings.

But that’s beside the point. Families are being released and told to appear at a court hearing. At the same time, we’ve repeatedly heard the Obama administration announce that their policy is that only criminals will be deported, and that it would be “inhumane” to detain these families until their hearings. The LA Times article also says that ankle bracelets are used, but only if the individual shows up for the initial hearing in the first place.

Hence, the only “misinformation” these families are getting is that, if they think they’ll get a work permit and formal permission to stay, they’re wrong. If they think they will be released and be able to look for a fake ID and/or work under the table, enroll their children in school, even get a driver’s license (depending on the state) and live a life without too much government interference, then they’re entirely correct.

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