Nationwide protests aimed to plug the gaping hole in America’s porous border with Mexico and stop the flow of illegal aliens - many of them unaccompanied children – amid mounting costs are scheduled for July 18-19.
As the United States wrangles with an estimated 57,000 unaccompanied children, mostly from Central America, who have been apprehended crossing the US border illegally since last October, the Obama administration has requested $3.7 billion in emergency funding to take care of the new arrivals. Many Americans, however, want the free ride in their communities to end.
Central American radio stations are playing anti-immigration songs paid for by the US government
A coalition of citizens groups are hoping to turn the tide on
illegal migrants arriving to the United States from Central
America in what has been called a National Day of Protesting
Against Immigration Reform, Amnesty & Border Surge. The
protest comes as activists from communities around the country
have been turning back busload after busload of illegal
immigrants.
According to William Gheen, president of the Americans for Legal
Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), one of 11 sponsors of the protest,
interest in the rallies is spreading across the country.
“Our goal is to unify Americans of all races, political
parties and walks of life against the Obama-inspired illegal
immigrant invasion,” Gheen told WND news. “At last count
we had 257 communities signed up, but that was two hours ago.
We’re expecting more than 300 and updating the event list every
two hours.”
Protesters will gather around the country at state capitals, Mexican
consulates, and at illegal detention centers that house the new
arrivals. Gheen said he hopes the movement will counteract the
recent surge of illegals at the US-Mexico border, as well as send
a powerful message to US politicians that their jobs could be on
the line if they continue to support the “invasion.”
“We’re hoping to get an American surge that will manifest in
protests and the defeat of more Eric Cantor-type Republicans that
still have GOP primaries and the Democrats in November that
support Obama and his amnesty plans,” Gheen told WND.
He said about 40 Republicans in the House, including Sen. Lamar
Alexander, R-Tenn, “need to go,” because they have
betrayed their Republican roots by merely “playing the
role” of traditional conservatives.
“What [the politicians] fear is when they know the next stop
is the election booth and that’s our message,” Gheen said.
We want everybody to support these protests but we want them
to understand we need to get them involved in these elections and
the defeat of many of Obama’s amnesty allies.”
Some US politicians already got the message.
Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, for example, harshly criticized the
federal government’s plans to sneak illegal immigrant children
into his home state, announcing last week that he would “use
every tool at my disposal though the appropriations process to
stop” illegals from being dumped in his state.
“These unaccompanied minors who have entered our nation
illegally must not be brought to Carroll County, Maryland. Flying
them to Maryland only to turn around and fly them back home is
nonsensical,” Harris said.
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Meanwhile, radio host Rush Limbaugh stoked the fires of public
passion by blaming the mainstream media for not covering the
growing protest movement.
“Here’s what you do not know,” Limbaugh railed.
“There are towns all over America standing up to this
invasion, just like they did in Murrieta, California. You’re not
hearing about it, however, and I am here to tell you why you’re
not hearing about it. Westminster, Maryland, is a town standing
up to it, just like Murrieta, California, did. Oracle, Arizona,
is standing up to it.
“In Nebraska they’re gonna stand up to it when they find out. The
governor is fit to be tied,” Limbaugh continued. “Upper
Michigan, same thing. There are towns all over America standing
up to this. There are protests happening, but they’re not being
covered.”
James Neighbors, an Oklahoma City-based activist and founder of
Overpasses for America, another sponsor of the protests, said
many people become interested in the movement once they are
informed of the whopping cost of hosting illegals.
“Really we just give them the facts, and in this case it
happens to be amnesty and how it’s going to cost over $60 billion
to intake all of these illegal aliens and that’s only the 11
million the government admits are here. That number is from
2004,” Neighbors told World News Daily. “We’re being
invaded. That’s why we’re taking a strong stance on this because
we’re looking and seeing more than one out of every 10 in the
whole country being here illegally.”
Neighbors emphasized that this weekend’s protests will be
peaceful.
“We don’t engage in violence, we simply exercise our First
Amendment rights and educate the public with our protests,”
he said. “We really look at it as a bypassing of the media.
The ratings of the mainstream media are at an all-time low but
you can’t ignore people out on an overpass; it sticks in your
mind.”
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At the same time that congressional leaders slash public spending
amid record debt levels, many Americans were stunned when they
discovered the authorities are spending $250 to $1,000 per day to
care for each child caught crossing the US border.
"One of the figures that sticks in everybody's mind is we're
paying about $250 to $1,000 per child," Senator Jeff Flake
told reporters, following a closed-door briefing by Homeland
Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
About half of Obama's emergency request of $3.8 billion would be
allocated to the Department of Health and Human Services to
address the needs of the arrivals.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat from California, compared
Mexican children being turned back at the border to the
“boatloads of Jewish immigrants trying to come to this
country during Nazi Germany and getting turned back.” The
Senator didn’t flinch when she told legislators the cost of
sustaining the arrivals, which came out to be at least “$250
per day, including other services,” Feinstein said, without
providing details.
"It goes up to $1,000 per day if you have to contract
temporarily," she added. "That's what they're trying to
avoid."
US authorities expect some 30,000 more unaccompanied children to
cross the border by the end of September, and that 145,000 will
be apprehended next year. Yet many are wondering why the
government is willing to pay billions to allow illegal immigrants
to remain in the country, while homeless people receive no
assistance.
Homeless activist Ted Hayes, who has lived in LA for 30 years, is
upset over LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s willingness to provide
shelter for thousands of illegal immigrants while there are
thousands of American kids living on the street who, he believes,
deserve help first.
“It’s kind of a slap in the face to US citizens,” Hayes
told CBS News. “It’s embarrassing. It’s hurtful. Because it’s
like a father saying that he loves children outside of the family
more than he loves his own.”
“We feel for them,” Hayes continued. “We feel their
pain. But we are feeling pain of our own children first.”
LA protesters point to recent events in Escondido, California, a
suburb of San Diego, where residents successfully fought against
a proposal to turn a closed nursing facility into a shelter to
house illegal aliens.