GOP leader calls for migrant children 'warehouses' in Central America

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

GOP leader calls for migrant children 'warehouses' in Central America

Michael McCaul, chair of committee on homeland security, leads charge of Republican attacks on president over border crisis

Ed Pilkington in New York
theguardian.com, Sunday 13 July 2014 12.47 EDT

A senior Republican has proposed that the US government should build “warehouses” in Central America where thousands of unaccompanied children who have attempted to seek asylum in the US could be deported and processed on their return to their countries of origin.

Michael McCaul, a Republican member of Congress from Texas who chairs the House committee on homeland security, has proposed that rather than build extra facilities on domestic soil to handle the surge in numbers of child immigrants attempting to cross the US border, facilities should be located in the territories from which the minors came. “I’m not in favour of building large warehouses in the US to warehouse these kids, I think we have to have deterrence and if we are to build facilities we should think about doing that in the countries of origin in Central America,” he said.

Speaking on Fox News Sunday, McCaul said that Republicans would not write a blank cheque for dealing with the border situation, which he said had reached crisis proportions. President Obama last week asked Congress for $3.7bn in emergency funds to expand the system of immigration courts and speed up the process for dealing with child immigrants crossing the southern border, who have exceeded 50,000 since last October.

Republican leaders gave a round of interviews on the Sunday political shows, clearly sensing that the White House is on the defensive over the child immigrant issue. The opposition party has sought to turn the political flurry into Obama’s Katrina, by suggesting that the president’s decision not to tour the border in Texas last week was a sign that he was as out of touch as his predecessor George Bush had been over the New Orleans disaster in 2005.




Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/border-crisis-immigration-children-warehouses-republicans-america

[Marthe48]

1. They're called children's homes you jerk

You put inanimate objects in a warehouse, you bloodless monster. You nurture children. If their parents are unable to care for them, you put them in foster care, or in children's homes where trained professionals help them until they cam help themselves. I bet if we stopped using our good tax money to pay representatives, you'd get rid of a lot of the dross.

And the people going on talk shows don't have a clue-they are on TV because someone told them to go on TV and the news readers pretend to ask real/serious questions, which are actually badly disguised barbs at people who are compassionate about born children.

[davidpdx]

4. +1

[DeadLetterOffice]

2. The GOP really needs to do something about this thing their members do...

...where they open their mouths and the STUPID just comes pouring out.

We're going to build "warehouses" -- for CHILDREN -- in SOMEONE ELSE'S COUNTRY.
SERIOUSLY?!?

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

7. Well they thought nothing about training the military leaders

of those countries that the kids are coming out of now, how to torture their own citizens.

[hobbit709]

3. How about we warehouse him somewhere.

[davidpdx]

5. Headline should read

Republicans seek to put children in gulags sponsored by Amazon

[alp227]

6. Michael McCaul, "pro life" legislator

http://votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/49210/michael-mccaul/

[Orsino]

8. When there are cells in Gitmo sitting empty? n/t