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The Border Crisis Is A Money-Making Machine For Smugglers
« on: April 05, 2019, 02:48:37 pm »
The Border Crisis Is A Money-Making Machine For Smugglers

Whatever their reasons for leaving, a wall or a physical barrier will do nothing to stop immigrants from crossing the border.

By John Daniel Davidson   
April 4, 2019



 
Editor’s note: This is the written testimony of Federalist senior correspondent John Daniel Davidson, delivered before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

About this time last year, I visited a migrant respite center in McAllen, Texas, run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, the charitable arm of the Diocese of Brownsville. Sister Norma Pimentel helped establish the center in 2014, at the height of the unaccompanied minor crisis, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was overwhelmed with thousands of children and teenagers turning themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents.

At that time, the center was receiving between 60 and 120 migrants a day, nearly all of them families from Central America. Here’s how it worked: Every afternoon, ICE dropped off the families at the Greyhound bus station downtown, about a mile from the respite center. Greyhound employees would call the center to let them know the migrants were there, and the center would send vans to pick them up.

Once at the center, the children would be sent to a separate room for a hot meal while the parents took turns working with volunteers to get in touch with friends and family members all over the country. The goal was to get them all bus tickets and get them on their way that same day, usually later that evening, because the next day there would be another group of families coming in, and there simply wasn’t space for more than a couple dozen people to spend the night there.

This wasn’t some gleaming facility. The center occupied one half of a run-down commercial building, consisting of a large multipurpose room, a bathroom and a shower, a small kitchen, and a separate room for the makeshift cafeteria. There was an area in a corner of the main room cordoned off for young children to play and a large stack of blue plastic mattresses in another corner. Staffed by a dozen or so volunteers daily, the center wasn’t exactly a “shelter,” but it was a non-stop hive of activity, operating at capacity nearly every day.

In December, the diocese moved the center to a larger location, a former nursing home, about 16,000 square-feet—many times larger than the old respite center. That’s because the number of migrants turning up at the bus station skyrocketed. Today, the new respite center is receiving about 800 people a day, sometimes more. Last Sunday, 1,300 people were dropped off there and at other shelters around town.

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https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/04/border-crisis-money-making-machine-smugglers/
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Re: The Border Crisis Is A Money-Making Machine For Smugglers
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2019, 02:49:45 pm »
   Sounds like the Local Catholic Diocese is also making a boatload of Federal money.
No government in the 12,000 years of modern mankind history has led its people into anything but the history books with a simple lesson, don't let this happen to you.