Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Meanwhile, Obama’s Immigration Disaster Continues (80% male, 83% over 14)
...This wave of immigrants is customarily referred to as “children,” and
media outlets like to interview women and girls. But one survey found that
80% of the migrants are male, and 83% are over 14. Some are gang
members or other type of criminals. If the Obama administration thought
they were future Republican voters, they would be driven away with
cattle prods. Instead, the illegal immigrants are being sent to various
parts of the U.S. Here the Obama administration becomes characteristically evasive. The remarkable thing is that the Associated Press actually notices: The Obama administration has released into the U.S. an
untold number of immigrant families caught traveling illegally from
Central America in recent months — and although the government knows how
many it’s released, it won’t say publicly. Senior U.S. officials directly familiar with the issue, including at
the Homeland Security Department and White House, have so far dodged the
answer on at least seven occasions over two weeks, alternately saying
that they did not know the figure or didn’t have it immediately at hand.
“We will get back to you,” the Homeland Security deputy secretary said
Friday. The figure is widely believed to exceed 40,000 since October. It’s
believed to be slightly below the roughly 52,000 children caught
traveling illegally from Central America over the same period, an
extraordinary increase since last year that is driving a humanitarian
crisis at the border. Despite promises to the contrary, this is how it looks when the
image-conscious Obama administration doesn’t want to reveal politically
sensitive information that could influence an important policy debate...more
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