Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has an alternative solution to President Obama’s $3.7 billion emergency funding to help deal with the influx of illegal immigrant children. A first class ticket back to their home country. And it would save the United States roughly $3.6 billion.
Obama’s plan? “It’s the wrong approach,” Coburn stated.
Via CNN:
Sen. Tom Coburn said Tuesday he opposes President Barack Obama’s request for $3.7 billion in emergency funding to address the influx of unaccompanied minors across the southwest border.
“That’s $60,000 per child we will spend, in emergency money,” the Oklahoma Republican said on CNN’s “Crossfire.”
“That shows how incompetent [the government] is.”
Coburn said providing additional resources for detention spaces and immigration attorneys to the minors is the “wrong approach.”
“We can put them all on a first class seat to their homes, that’s $8 million,” he added.
Coburn of course, was discussing the illegal immigration problem solely from a financial aspect, making a point that such exorbitant spending is wasteful and unnecessary. The meat of the Senator’s solution revolves around enforcing existing immigration law.
“You know what is in the craw of Americans? It is not immigration. It’s that they don’t see our government enforcing our laws,” Coburn said.
Coburn also suggested repealing the law allows juveniles from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala to stay and apply for asylum instead of facing immediate deportation. He states that repealing the law would take a matter of two weeks.
Watch the discussion below …
Senator Coburn’s “plan” would be nice, but it would also violate the laws which were widely bi-partisan when passed and then signed into law by a GOP President.
You don’t mean you want President Obama to take actions regardless of the requirements of the law of the land, like a king, do you?
Common Sense has returned!
It would be nice to have the 25 billion it cost to shut the government down… but the Republicans thought that was money well spent… Yup they want to save money for sure….
“In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph “Jumpin’ Joe” Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.
One of Swing’s first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson would have no effect.
Then on June 17, 1954, what was called “Operation Wetback” began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.
By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.
By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.
Unlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.
Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south.
Mr. Coppock says he “cannot understand why the President let [today’s] problem get away from him as it has. I guess he prefers to play golf.”
There are now said to be 30 million to 40 million illegal aliens in the US. Of the Mexicans who live here, an estimated 85 percent are here illegally.
Border Patrol vets offer tips on curbing illegal immigration
One day in 1954, Border Patrol agent Walt Edwards picked up a newspaper in Big Spring, Texas, and saw the government was launching an all-out drive to oust illegal aliens from the United States.
The orders came straight from the top, where the new president, Dwight Eisenhower, had put a former West Point classmate, Gen. Joseph Swing, in charge of immigration enforcement.
General Swing’s fast-moving campaign soon secured America’s borders – an accomplishment no other president has since equaled. Illegal migration had dropped 98 percent by the late 1950s.
Several retired Border Patrol agents who took part in the 1950s effort, including Mr. Edwards, say much of what Swing did could be repeated today.
“Some say we cannot send 12 million illegals now in the United States back where they came from. Of course we can!” Edwards says.
Donald Coppock, who headed the Patrol from 1960 to 1973, says that if Swing and Ike were still running immigration enforcement, “they’d be on top of this in a minute.”
Edwards says: “When we start enforcing the law, these various businesses are, on their own, going to replace their [illegal] workforce with a legal workforce.”
1. End the current practice of taking captured illegal aliens to the border and releasing them. Instead, deport them deep into Mexico, where return to the US would be more costly.
2. Crack down hard on employers who hire illegals. Without jobs, the aliens won’t come.”
Source: U.S. History Teacher
“In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph “Jumpin’ Joe” Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.
One of Swing’s first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson would have no effect.
Then on June 17, 1954, what was called “Operation Wetback” began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.
By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.
By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.
Unlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.
Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south.
Mr. Coppock says he “cannot understand why the President let [today’s] problem get away from him as it has. I guess he prefers to play golf.”
There are now said to be 30 million to 40 million illegal aliens in the US. Of the Mexicans who live here, an estimated 85 percent are here illegally.
Border Patrol vets offer tips on curbing illegal immigration
One day in 1954, Border Patrol agent Walt Edwards picked up a newspaper in Big Spring, Texas, and saw the government was launching an all-out drive to oust illegal aliens from the United States.
The orders came straight from the top, where the new president, Dwight Eisenhower, had put a former West Point classmate, Gen. Joseph Swing, in charge of immigration enforcement.
General Swing’s fast-moving campaign soon secured America’s borders – an accomplishment no other president has since equaled. Illegal migration had dropped 98 percent by the late 1950s.
Several retired Border Patrol agents who took part in the 1950s effort, including Mr. Edwards, say much of what Swing did could be repeated today.
“Some say we cannot send 12 million illegals now in the United States back where they came from. Of course we can!” Edwards says.
Donald Coppock, who headed the Patrol from 1960 to 1973, says that if Swing and Ike were still running immigration enforcement, “they’d be on top of this in a minute.”
Edwards says: “When we start enforcing the law, these various businesses are, on their own, going to replace their [illegal] workforce with a legal workforce.”
1. End the current practice of taking captured illegal aliens to the border and releasing them. Instead, deport them deep into Mexico, where return to the US would be more costly.
2. Crack down hard on employers who hire illegals. Without jobs, the aliens won’t come.”
Source: U.S. History Teacher
This has been done before by Truman and Eisenhower. Operation Wet Back, announce you are going to do it and within 30 days round em up and move em out.
This is the most logical and financially responsible position. Almost all American Citizens would be in favor of this because it would humanely get these kids back to their country of origin. The international community would then see America welcomes immigrants but NOT ILLEGALS. Of course, Obama’s agenda is in direct opposition to logic and financial responsibility and he would site laws for his benefit to spend more money and achieve his goals; however, it is NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN WHO JUST WANT TO GO HOME REGARDLESS of “conditions”.
Why does it have to be “first class air travel”? That’s extremey expensive! What is the cost of commercial airplane compared to using a military plane? It’s possible the cost could be cut even more.