nontheist
Well-Known Member
6 years of immigration rhetoric and for the FIRST time Obama asked central American leaders to help slow the wave of Immigrants, their reply is priceless.
The two presidents placed much of the blame for the current border crisis on the United States. While they said they were working to crack down on drug trafficking and violence in their own countries, they also called on the United States to share in the responsibility for the crisis.
Mr. Hernández, of Honduras, pointed in part to “the ambiguity that has been the hallmark of the debate of the reform of the immigration process in this country.”
“Here we have to say that the coyotes, the smugglers, who are very much a part of organized crime networks, perversely have sought to exploit those ambiguities and peddle a mistaken, a totally wrong interpretation to the parents of these children in saying, ‘You can get your kids in the U.S., we can do it for you,’ ” Mr. Hernández said in his remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He added that while “those coyotes, those smugglers are nothing other than the human face of an enormous criminal monster that has one foot firmly in the camp of the drug lords and in Central America,” the other “second foot is here in the United States under American jurisdiction.”
Administration officials reject the idea that Mr. Obama’s policies — including stopping deportations for young immigrants who were brought to the United States as children — are responsible for creating any confusion about who will
be allowed to stay in the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/us/politics/obama-migrant-children.html?_r=0
The two presidents placed much of the blame for the current border crisis on the United States. While they said they were working to crack down on drug trafficking and violence in their own countries, they also called on the United States to share in the responsibility for the crisis.
Mr. Hernández, of Honduras, pointed in part to “the ambiguity that has been the hallmark of the debate of the reform of the immigration process in this country.”
“Here we have to say that the coyotes, the smugglers, who are very much a part of organized crime networks, perversely have sought to exploit those ambiguities and peddle a mistaken, a totally wrong interpretation to the parents of these children in saying, ‘You can get your kids in the U.S., we can do it for you,’ ” Mr. Hernández said in his remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He added that while “those coyotes, those smugglers are nothing other than the human face of an enormous criminal monster that has one foot firmly in the camp of the drug lords and in Central America,” the other “second foot is here in the United States under American jurisdiction.”
Administration officials reject the idea that Mr. Obama’s policies — including stopping deportations for young immigrants who were brought to the United States as children — are responsible for creating any confusion about who will
be allowed to stay in the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/us/politics/obama-migrant-children.html?_r=0