Discussion: White House: Number Of Minors Crossing Border Dropped In July

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Discussion for article #225337

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Sending the children here. . . retaliation for the Contra mess Raygun perpetrated?

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The coyotes were telling Central Americans that the deadline for children to receive asylum under Bush’s Wilberforce Act was June 30. That phony deadline is why so many were flooding in, so it makes sense that now that the deadline has passed migration has slowed dramatically.

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Now let’s return those here.

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I have never seen numbers on this so called “crisis at the border”.

When Bush signed the law in 2008 how many unaccompanied minors were crossing? How about in 2009? and 2010, and 2011, and 2012? and how about one year ago? how about 6 months ago? how about 3 months ago?

This snippet of a press release is the only time I’ve ever seen a number and I am paying attention.

I don’t believe there is a crisis because I don’t believe there have been a change. I don’t believe there has been a change because no one actually said that there has been a change. They just say: “Kids Oh my”