Late yesterday afternoon President Barack Obama asked Congress to quickly approve supplemental legislation for almost $4 billion to address the sudden influx of illegal child migrants flooding across our southern borders. Georgia is a destination for some of the children and they are already arriving by the thousands.
How much? That’s right $4,000,000,000.00, or a whopping $569,000.00 and change per child. I put all those zeros in to remind the reader just how much we’re being asked to pay plus interest, because we borrow or create every penny in circulation from nothing and immediately start the interest clock ticking.
Georgia attorney Rebecca Salmon runs the Access to Law Foundation, a non-profit that represents children that arrive in America alone. According to Salmon “they’ve been showing up in Atlanta for about a month and a half.”
President Obama believes this to be a Republican problem due to the failure of the House to pass a “comprehensive immigration reform bill” that he could sign. Amazingly he seems to have forgotten that for the early portion of his first term the Democrat party controlled all three branches of government and somehow the problem still exists.
When one looks at this staggering mess it would seem that there is enough blame to go around. Republicans have held the power and failed to fix the problem, and they have danced around the “amnesty” word enough to get Va. Rep. Eric Cantor bounced out of office because he tried to have it both ways, talking out of both sides of his mouth. Now we have a humanitarian crisis on our hands in the border-states that look a lot like what we have seen happen in the middle-east or Africa. There are people streaming across the border just far enough to escape the misery or danger behind them only to find more of the same in front of them. Hand-cuffs, over-crowded detention centers and a procedure to return them to their homeland that could take months or years. A large portion have been beaten, starved and molested on the way here, some never make it and die along the way. They all arrive with nothing.
To be sure America has a giving heart and will offer these children a better place to live than what they left behind but they have to go home. $4 billion is so ridiculous that Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn says we could just fly them all home, first class for about $8 million.
The President wants to build an infrastructure to support this behavior for years to come adding judges, detention centers and personnel. Once added these positions will become permanent and once again government grows due to government failure. Georgia is a destination for a large portion of these illegals and the impact of the health risks alone will cost Georgians millions over time. Those that skip their deportation hearings will melt into society
and impact our schools, emergency rooms and swallow up funds that should be going to help American citizens. I say take Sen. Coburn’s advice and let’s buy them a first class ticket home. We can’t afford not to…
