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TexasTowelie

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Tue Jun 3, 2014, 12:20 AM Jun 2014

Flow of border immigrants overwhelming agencies forces Perry to ask Obama for help

May 31, 2014

Earlier this week, Gov. Rick Perry sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to send more Border Patrol agents to Texas and to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops.

Perry also asked the administration eliminate policies that he described as encouraging illegal immigration - in particular releasing immigrants from custody with notices to appear in court and reuniting youths caught alone in the country illegally with family members in the U.S.

"I ask you to take action to prevent the situation along the U.S.-Mexico border from further escalating by providing more resources to secure our porous border," Perry wrote.

Top Department of Homeland Security officials said they already have dispatched hundreds more agents to the Texas border, and are in high-level talks with other agencies about how to reduce the flow of unaccompanied children through the Rio Grande Valley.


More at http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Flow-of-border-immigrants-overwhelming-agencies-5520037.php#/0 .

Related article: Obama calls spike in children crossing border 'urgent' situation

President Barack Obama on Monday called the spike in children and teenagers caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone in recent months an "urgent humanitarian situation," bringing in FEMA to coordinate federal efforts to provide their housing, transportation and medical care.

In a presidential memorandum, Obama called for a coordinated, multi-agency effort to address the influx of unaccompanied children entering the country illegally from Central and South America. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate was tapped to spearhead coordination of the efforts, aimed in part at easing overcrowding in Border Patrol stations in South Texas.

"The influx of unaccompanied alien children across the southwest border of the United States has resulted in an urgent humanitarian situation requiring a unified and coordinated federal response," Obama said in a presidential memorandum.

Record-breaking numbers of children and teens from Central and South America are being swept into a deeply strained detention network in the U.S. Some 60,000 unaccompanied children are expected to land in detention this year - more than nine times as many as in 2011.


More at http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Obama-calls-spike-in-children-crossing-border-5523266.php#/0 .
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Flow of border immigrants overwhelming agencies forces Perry to ask Obama for help (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2014 OP
Economic necessity or slavery is a really bad problem in South and Central America. DhhD Jun 2014 #1
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