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Originally Posted by Packard fan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is openly and unapologetically stepping up efforts to find and deport unaccompanied children and families who arrived in the U.S. in the 2014 surge of illegal crossings.
The politically fraught endeavor is a follow-through on a nearly 2-year-old warning that those immigrants who don't win permission to stay in the United States would be sent packing. It comes at a time when Republican presidential candidates are pushing for tougher immigration action.
Obama admin using unpopular raids to curb border crossings - Business Insider
Yowza!
I'm getting the feeling the Dems are getting spooked of Trump about him wanting to get illegal aliens. |
But is doing nothing to stop the recent crossings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...igrant-crisis/
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October and November, more than 10,500 children crossed the U.S.-Mexico border by themselves, the vast majority from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, according to U.S. government data analyzed by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
That’s a 106 percent increase over the same period last year, reflecting a steady increase that began in March.
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