Why the Border Crisis Is a Myth
EL PASO — TO hear the national news media tell the story, you would think my city, #El_Paso, and others along the #Texas-Mexico border were being overrun by children — tens of thousands of them, some with their mothers, arriving from Central America in recent months, exploiting an immigration loophole to avoid deportation and putting a fatal strain on border state resources.
There’s no denying the impact of this latest immigration wave or the need for more resources. But there’s no crisis. Local communities like mine have done an amazing job of assisting these migrants.
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/opinion/why-the-border-crisis-is-a-myth.html
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And despite President Obama’s efforts to work with Central American leaders to address the root causes of the migration, his recently announced request for $3.7 billion, supposedly to deal with these new migrants, contains yet more border security measures: Almost $40 million would go to drone surveillance, and nearly 30 percent of it is for transportation and detention.
–-> v. lien : ▻http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2014/07/obama-requests-drone-surge-us-mexico-border/88303