via WOAI.
The surge of illegal immigrant minors rushing over the Rio Grande threatens to overwhelm the Texas Border Patrol, and new figures show the unexpected development will cost U.S. taxpayers more than $2 billion this year, 1200 WOAI news reports.The unemployment rate is 6.3%.
More than 1,000 unaccompanied immigrant children are arriving in the U.S. each week, according to figures released by the Department of Homeland Security, and some 60,000 are expected to arrive in the U.S. this year. That is up ten times just since 2011.
U.S. Rep Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo), who represents a large portion of the border where the waves of unaccompanied children are arriving, says the situation is out of control.
"The Border Patrol is telling me, we need diapers, we need baby seats, so we can transfer them," he said.
Some of the unaccompanied children are as young as three years old. More than 1,000 have been sent to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, and others are being sent to other locations far from the border because the flood has left Border Patrol housing facilities packed.
Cuellar says the flood of unaccompanied minors is costing taxpayers $252 per day per child.
What they don't tell you is that the labor participation rate is at a 36 year low. What does that mean? It means we don't have enough jobs for the people we already have, much less for a new flood of illegal immigrants.
Spare me your table pounding about this being a humanitarian crisis. Its not. This is an economic move designed to put even more people on the dole and to change the Southwestern States to Democrat.
I was neutral on the issue of illegal immigration but stuff like this gets my hair up and I'm going to start opposing it until they can at LEAST secure the damn border.
This is bullshit.
