White House Asks Congress for $3.7 Billion for Border Crisis

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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/white-house-asks-congress-3-7-billion-border-crisis-n150651

 

The Obama administration is formally asking for $3.7 billion in emergency funds from Congress to address the flood of unaccompanied minor children coming illegally into the United States -- more than the White House previously signaled it would request.

The funds include $1.1 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, $433 million to Customs and Border Protection, $64 million for the Department of Justice, $300 million to the State Department and $1.8 billion to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The administration previously indicated that it would request about $2 billion but would wait to release the details until Congress returned from a week-long break.

The White House says the money is necessary to cover costs like increased man-hours for border patrol agents and aerial surveillance teams, legal services for children in immigration proceedings, the hiring of 40 additional teams of immigration judges, and care for unaccompanied children while they are in the country. Almost $300 million would go towards efforts to “repatriate and reintegrate migrants to Central America” and address the underlying economic and security causes of the spike in child migrants.

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I suspect that if we'd spent the same amount of time & money on Central/South America instead of in Iraq/Afghanistan this wouldn't be nearly as big a problem.  My understanding is that they've got a lot of oil, too, but the fields aren't as well developed.  Sounds like they could use some more freedom, right?

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I suspect that if we'd spent the same amount of time & money on Central/South America instead of in Iraq/Afghanistan this wouldn't be nearly as big a problem.  My understanding is that they've got a lot of oil, too, but the fields aren't as well developed.  Sounds like they could use some more freedom, right?

The reality is this was done in Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, etc...   Eventually the wrong leader gets elected and the companies that sank billions to develop the fields are thrown out and the fields are nationalized.  Oil production in both Mexico and Venezuela is dropping because they haven't properly managed their existing oil fields and the big players won't go in again for fear of watching their expensive equipment taken from them and being shown the door.

 

China just loaned Argentina billions for oil field development but even they won't send over men and equipment since money is easy to forgive and forget, while being thrown out of a country is too visible for the Chinese or really any leader to deal with.  Just like this country, everything always depends on the next leader/ruler, not the current one.

 

Yeah, 100 years plus of kissing up to the Europeans while ignoring our resource rich, hard working, and NON radical neighbors to the south was really stupid.   People forget that at one time in the early 1900's, Argentina was one of the top 7 economies in the world (larger than France and Germany) and was booming.    Mexico, Central and South America should be an Oasis of economic power and prosperity given the culture and resources.