A few days ago, news came of another big, big lie being told by the Obama administration. This time, the lie is about immigration and the flood of children crossing our southern borders. As you surely must know by now, thousands of children from Central America have been crossing the Rio Grande into Texas; most are unaccompanied by their parents. The border patrol has been inundated by this flow of children; it now spends most of its time caring for the kids rather than guarding the borders. The Obama administration's initial response was to tell the nation that the kids were escaping from terrible conditions in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua; the administration also told us repeatedly that they were surprised by this huge flow of children. After all, there had never before been a year in which more than 5000 unaccompanied children had crossed the border, and there have now been about ten times that number in 2014 with the year not even half over.
So why is this a lie? Here's the big story: last January, long before the avalanche of children started making its way into Texas, the Department of Homeland Security advertised for bidders for a contract to provide transportation and support for 65,000 unaccompanied children. That is not a misstatement; last January DHS went looking for a company to provide people to care for and transport 65,000 illegal alien kids during 2014. Here is the link to the article that first broke the story wide open.
Think about what this means. In January, the Obama administration was preparing for 65,000 unaccompanied children to cross the border this year illegally. At the time, there had never been more than 5000 kids do that in any one year. Also, at the time, there had not yet been any upsurge in arrivals of illegal minors. Why did DHS put this contract out for bids? The only possible conclusion is that DHS thought that there was a good expectation that 2014 would suddenly see the arrival of not just more children across the border, but thirteen times more children than the previous record for a year.
The only reasonable conclusion is that the government has not been surprised at all by the wave of children crossing the border. Indeed, one has to wonder if Obama and the Obamacrats helped arrange for it to happen. They certainly were preparing for it. They knew it was coming.
No matter what part of the Obama presidency we look at these days, there are only two common denominators: incompetence and falsehoods. And we have two and a half more years of this disaster.
So why is this a lie? Here's the big story: last January, long before the avalanche of children started making its way into Texas, the Department of Homeland Security advertised for bidders for a contract to provide transportation and support for 65,000 unaccompanied children. That is not a misstatement; last January DHS went looking for a company to provide people to care for and transport 65,000 illegal alien kids during 2014. Here is the link to the article that first broke the story wide open.
Think about what this means. In January, the Obama administration was preparing for 65,000 unaccompanied children to cross the border this year illegally. At the time, there had never been more than 5000 kids do that in any one year. Also, at the time, there had not yet been any upsurge in arrivals of illegal minors. Why did DHS put this contract out for bids? The only possible conclusion is that DHS thought that there was a good expectation that 2014 would suddenly see the arrival of not just more children across the border, but thirteen times more children than the previous record for a year.
The only reasonable conclusion is that the government has not been surprised at all by the wave of children crossing the border. Indeed, one has to wonder if Obama and the Obamacrats helped arrange for it to happen. They certainly were preparing for it. They knew it was coming.
No matter what part of the Obama presidency we look at these days, there are only two common denominators: incompetence and falsehoods. And we have two and a half more years of this disaster.
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