How many illegal immigrants have been released by the government?
[NOTE: This is somewhat of a companion piece to my new article today at PJ.]
The administration is refusing to say how many illegal immigrants it’s released in the last couple of months, although it knows:
Senior U.S. officials directly familiar with the issue, including at the Homeland Security Department and White House, have so far dodged the answer on at least seven occasions over two weeks, alternately saying that they did not know the figure or didn’t have it immediately at hand. “We will get back to you,” the Homeland Security deputy secretary said Friday.
The figure is widely believed to exceed 40,000 since October…
Most of the immigrant families are from Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala and cannot be immediately repatriated, so the government has been releasing them into the U.S. interior and telling them to report within 15 days to the nearest U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement offices. Despite promises for better transparency on immigration issues, the administration has been unwilling to say how many immigrant families it’s released ”” hundreds or thousands ”” or how many of those subsequently reported back to the government after 15 days as directed…
The administration did not immediately respond Monday to renewed questions about why it won’t reveal the figure.
Here are details of at least seven occasions since June 9 when senior U.S. officials declined to say how many immigrant families the government has released in recent months…
At the very moment I’m writing this, the Yahoo article to which I’ve linked has 11,410 comments, which is extremely high even for Yahoo. I’m certainly not about to read them all, or anywhere near most of them, but scrolling down and skimming them I can’t find any that don’t express outrage, usually of an extreme variety.
And yet it goes on. Congress and the citizens of the United States are like deer frozen in the headlights. They don’t know what is about to hit them, but they know it’s not good.
From your column at “Pajamas”: “The immigration court system was backlogged with as many as 30,000 pending cases before the most recent surge.
Court delays that already persist for years will grow even longer as the beleaguered system absorbs the cases for the new children immigrants.”
How could anyone doubt that this execrable administration is pressing the Cloward-Piven tactic just as hard as they can in this and dozens of other issues. “Fundamentally change” my ass.
They’re over 12,000 by now.
See why people starting a coup always seize the TV stations first? (just sayin’….).
Marcus Tullius Cicero on traitors:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
“For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
“The traitor is the plague.”