Whenever a dangerous situation is ignored, it is likely to get worse.
In the Middle East, the Obama administration sat back while a terrorist army gained strength in Syria. Now ISIS controls a vast amount of territory and is threatening the world.
Same thing on America's southern border. The Obama administration has not secured it, and now this fiscal year we may have a 100,000 foreign children to care for.
That has angered many Americans, including some minorities who have backed president Obama on just about everything.
In Chicago -- where black children are being gunned down in the streets -- the president's call for almost four billion dollars to deal with immigrant children is being met with disdain.
UNIDENTIFIED CHICAGO MAN:“With the president setting aside all of these funds for immigrants, and forsaking the African-American community and African-American families, I think that’s a disgrace.”
In Houston, there is also growing anger.
BERNADETTE LANCELIN, CONCERNED HOUSTON CITIZEN:“It’s not right. Now billions of dollars want to be borrowed from the White House to help feed and house them. What about the god damn kids here? In our neighborhood? In our country? Not just in this neighborhood but in our country.”
It is easy to understand why poor Americans resent the illegal immigration intrusion, and there are other problems, as well.
The feds are now shipping illegal aliens all over the country, but not informing the states about what's going on.
NEBRASKA GOV. DAVE HEINEMAN (R):“A couple of days ago Senator Johanns found out that 200 illegal individuals had been sent to our state. No one has notified us of that. … Why are they conducting a secret operation, essentially, transporting them all over the country and now we learn to Nebraska and the federal government won’t tell us what’s going on.”
In just a few moments, Is It Legal? will tell us if the federal government is violating the rights of individual states.
In Iowa, the governor there flat out says he will not accept illegal aliens.
IOWA GOV. TERRY BRANSTAD (R):“Just because we’re an empathetic and supportive country, doesn’t mean we can take everybody. People need to know there is a legal way to come to this country and they need to follow the rules.”
Obviously, President Obama is facing a crisis over illegal immigration.
On his watch more than two million illegal aliens have been apprehended, but many of them have been allowed to stay in the U.S.A.
In fact, just to get a hearing is an ordeal. Right now close to 400,000 cases are pending.
Nobody really knows how many illegal aliens are in the U.S.A.; estimates range from 12 million to 20 million.
What we do know is that the Border Patrol cannot control the present situation.
CHRIS CABRERA, VICE PRESIDET OF THE NATIONAL BORDER PATROL COUNCIL LOCAL 3307 IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY (TEXAS):“Our agents don’t like to see these kids in these conditions, especially coming off the long journey they have been subjected to and then diseases some agents are contracting. We had one get bacterial pneumonia a couple days ago. A lot of our guys are coming down with scabies or lice from these people.”
Also the Washington Free Beacon reports there has been a disease outbreak at a Southern California naval base where foreign children are being processed.
Now Talking Points is not using scare tactics, but it is inconceivable that the huge influx of foreign children will not hurt Americans. It will.
On vivid example: in Lynn, Massachusetts, a working-class suburb of Boston, the school district says foreign students have increased by more than five hundred in the past three years.
Last year in Lynn nearly 250 students from Guatemala alone enrolled in the public schools there.
That puts an incredible burden on the local citizens of Lynn, who are not generally affluent people. Just the language problems alone strain the system.
There comes a time when Americans have to realistically assess their federal government.
If you are paying attention, that assessment is grim ... and getting worse by the week.
