White House: Most kids at border won't stay in US

[alp227]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday that most unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are unlikely to qualify for humanitarian relief that would prevent them from being sent back from their home countries.

The pointed warning came as the White House finalized a spending request to Congress detailing the additional resources President Barack Obama wants in order to hire more immigration judges and open additional detention facilities to deal with the border crisis. White House officials said they planned to send the more than $2 billion request to lawmakers on Tuesday.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that while the administration will allow the immigration review process to take place, officials so far don't expect many of the children arriving at the border to be able to stay in the U.S.

"It's unlikely that most of these kids will qualify for humanitarian relief," Earnest said. "It means they will not have a legal basis for remaining in this country and will be returned."

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/child-migrant-crisis-has-legal-political-hurdles

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And now back to our regularly scheduled "BENGHAZI! IRS!" Republican clown shows a.k.a. hearings.

[mucifer]

1. It's very sad.

[iandhr]

2. If I understood correctly.

The immigration reform bill passed by the Senate provided much more funding to secure the border. Or am I missing something.

[alp227]

3. the bill didnt pass the House at all,

so the border funding must've come from the House appropriations bill instead (since the House holds the purse strings, always).

[Louisiana1976]

4. Those kids should be taken in as refugees--not deported. The conditions they are fleeing

in their home countries were brought about by US political and economic intervention and support of regimes with lax law enforcement and corruption which allows gangs and drug cartels to flourish. The US has a responsibility to these children.

[In_The_Wind]

5. I agree

[hopemountain]

6. yes, the children in central america have suffered enough

we must accept them as refugees as we have the many other refugees from around the world whose countries are/were torn from stife.

the children of the world are our children and when one is suffering ~ we all suffer. these children have much to contribute in a good way to not only our country - but their country as well - and all of the world, for that matter. they need a chance.

all of the bruhaha is more about the people in our own country who are seeing less and less for themselves - but, there really is plenty for everyone if there was not so much greed and the political oppression of the lower and middle class by corporations.