Now the Obama administration wants to get the Hondurans here directly, without going through Mexico:
Hoping to stem the recent surge of migrants at the Southwest border, the Obama administration is considering whether to allow hundreds of minors and young adults from Honduras into the United States without making the dangerous trek through Mexico, according to a draft of the proposal.
If approved, the plan would direct the government to screen thousands of children and youths in Honduras to see if they can enter the United States as refugees or on emergency humanitarian grounds.
By making the trip easier,
the plan aims to slow the rush of minors crossing into the United States illegally
Not being a member of the Obama administration, I fail to follow the logic.
Or, as Ace put it,
Obama wants to avoid the spectacle of just giving hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors amnesty at the US border.
Sounds like a plan.
But wait! There’s more!
The proposal, prepared by several federal agencies, says the pilot program under consideration would cost up to $47 million over two years, assuming 5,000 applied and about 1,750 people were accepted. If successful, it would be adopted in Guatemala and El Salvador as well.
But wait! There’s more!
How many people are accepted is critical, because refugees qualify for public assistance upon arrival in the United States.
Minor footnote: Federal law doesn’t allow refugee status to be granted for fear of street gangs, only for fear of racial/religious/political persecution, but oh well. Legal details never stopped Obama before.
Speaking of fear of religious/political persecution, over in the Middle East . . .
And when they arrive, let’s mainstream them right into Common Core for all those things “Americans don’t want to learn.”