Something about a train thats magic! Wrote:
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> Our tax dollars at waste!
>
> [www.breitbart.com]
> 1/Illegal-Immigrants-Hopping-Death-Train-to-US-Hop
> ing-for-Amnesty
>
> HOUSTON, Texas--Thousands of illegal immigrants
> are flooding the U.S.-Mexico border and the
> problem isn't likely to get better anytime soon.
> In a mad dash to make it to the U.S., many of the
> Latino minors are hopping aboard a network of
> Mexican freight trains called "El Tren de la
> Muerte," or Death Train. The phenomenon may
> support claims that the Obama Administration's lax
> stance on immigration is encouraging thousands of
> children to put their lives at risk.
> Children who travel via Death Train must jump onto
> a moving freight car. Minors who cannot
> successfully pull themselves onto the traveling
> cars fall onto the tracks--many are left with
> extreme injuries.
> Erica Dahl-Bredine, an El Salvador representative
> for Catholic Relief Services, told the Colorado
> Gazette that those who get injured on the train
> tracks often return home. She added, "The
> couplings between the cars are notoriously
> dangerous. I see children who have lost an arm and
> a leg or both legs."
> The Obama Administration's actions and rhetoric,
> which has caused Central Americans to believe they
> will receive amnesty if they come to the U.S., is
> likely the driving force behind the surge at the
> border.
> "The U.S. is partly responsible for foreign
> nationals taking extreme measures that risk the
> lives of their children," Zack Taylor, Chairman of
> the National Association of Former Border Patrol
> Officers, told Breitbart Texas. "Our government is
> encouraging foreign nationals to come into our
> country illegally and stay."
> Upon arrival in the U.S., instead of being turned
> away, the Latino children are given taxpayer
> subsidized benefits that include housing, food,
> recreation, counseling, education, and legal
> advice.
> On top of this, each week authorities are
> currently releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants
> onto U.S. soil. Many of the freed immigrants are
> told to show up in court at a later date and are
> then released and reunited with their family
> members in the U.S. Victor Manjarrez--a professor
> at the University of Texas El Paso, former Chief
> Patrol Agent of Tucson Sector, and former Chief
> Patrol Agent in El Paso Sector--told Breitbart
> Texas that the migrants are "scheduled for a
> hearing sometime in the future. They promise to
> show up then get released. They then call up
> relatives in Central America and tell them they
> got released."
> It is easy to imagine that the release--coupled
> with the benefits while in custody--only further
> incentivizes minors to hop on the Death Train.
> Despite such considerable factors, the Obama
> Administration has claimed no responsibility for
> the young lives being put at risk during the trek
> north. The only reason for the spike in illegal
> crossers, the White House claims, is violence and
> poverty in the migrants' home countries.
> Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh
> Johnson claimed at a press conference earlier this
> month that he is not "encouraging illegal
> immigration in any way, shape, or form."
Anyone else find it interesting that the chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers is named "Zack Taylor?"