The Patriot Post® · Government-Enabled Amnesty

America is being subjected to the largest extortion racket ever perpetrated on the public by the federal government, corrupt vested interests and a despicably slanted media. In short, a coordinated invasion is taking place on our southern border and an equally coordinated effort is being made to disperse the invaders throughout the nation, so that it becomes virtually impossible to deport them. Albert Spratte, the sergeant-at-arms of the National Border Patrol Council, Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, puts it exactly like it is. “Even if the administration says this isn’t amnesty, don’t believe them,” he contends.

Americans should be outraged by the notion perpetrated by Obama and his media apparatchiks that this is a "humanitarian crisis.“ It is precisely that characterization of this scam that is one of the largest drivers of people who arrive at the border thoroughly convinced that if they get here, they can stay here. Even worse, the Obama administration knew they were coming. An ad run at the FedBizOpps.Gov website put out a Request for Information (RFI) regarding "Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children,” aka UAC. The ad stated that the contractor must be prepared to service “approximately 65,000 UAC in total.”

It was dated January 29, 2014.

Even more telling, the ad further states that ICE has a “continuing and mission critical responsibility for accepting custody of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) from U.S. Border Patrol and other Federal agencies and transporting these juveniles to Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters located throughout the continental United States.”

And what is the mission of the ORR? “The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) provides new populations with the opportunity to maximize their potential in the United States. Our programs provide people in need with critical resources to assist them in becoming integrated members of American society,” their website states under the heading, “What We Do.”

After the discovery of this ad by the Weasel Zippers website (a big hat tip for a job well done), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official Carl Rusnok told National Review that ICE began planning for an increased influx in UAC as far back as 2012. No doubt it is sheer coincidence that 2012 was the same year President Obama unilaterally ordered his administration to begin enforcing his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) memorandum, granting de facto amnesty to 560,000 illegal aliens who had ostensibly been in the country since 2007, were at least 16 years of age when they first arrived, were not over 30 years of age currently, passed criminal background checks, and met other requirements. I say ostensibly because there is little doubt the same administration that released 36,007 convicted criminal aliens from detention in 2013 while they awaited their deportation hearings will do whatever it takes to advance their agenda, utterly irrespective of the law.

So will the illegals themselves. Under current law, only children from Mexico (or Canada) can be stopped at the border and returned to their home country without being processed in the United States. The rest must be be transferred by the Department of Homeland Security (DHA) to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS) for supervision within 72 hours. Furthermore, those claiming refugee status are entitled to have to those claims ruled on by either the DHS, or by immigration judges of the Department of Justice during deportation proceedings.

Border patrol agents, who were directed not to speak with the press after the public became aware that 47,000 children had already crossed the border, nonetheless told The Blaze that those apprehended respond with rehearsed answers, immediately insisting that threats of gang violence motivated their trek to the United States. “It’s something they’re all saying and it’s obvious that it is well-rehearsed and it is a consistent story,” said Spratte. “We can’t even get them to answer their name before they tell us the gangs were the reason they fled their country.” Border agents have also found what they are referring to as “cheat sheets” that have been disseminated by human traffickers to assist illegals in preparing those stories.

Spratte illuminates the consequences that arise from such self-categorization. “Once they get north of the checkpoint and into the interior of the United States, they’ve basically disappeared and there is no accountability for them. ICE  isn’t going to deport them and these people know it,” he explained. “It’s worth it for them to come now just in case something later changes with regard to deportation.” He also noted that most come with no identification making it impossible to determine their country of origin. “Basically, you have to rely on the person who just entered to be totally honest about who they are and where they are going,” he added. “We know that isn’t going to happen.”

So does the Obama administration, which has actually abetted the process. An unnamed DHS official explains how. “Several years ago, we would hold illegal aliens until their court date…Now we let everyone go because we have no space.” And Obama administration officials are “letting them go” by literally dumping them in other states, and giving them “Notice to Appear” documents for a scheduled appearance in U.S. immigration courts.

At a House Judiciary Committee hearing last Wednesday, Tom Homan, who oversees ICE’s removal proceedings, revealed that the current court backlog will allow these illegals to stay in the country for as long as five years – or even longer. "Last year we removed 1,800, but again as I said about the immigration courts: When we looked at all the unaccompanied alien children that were filed with the immigration court in the last five years, 87 percent of them are still in proceedings. We have no final orders,“ Homan revealed.

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) made reality even starker. He noted that ICE has only been able to remove fewer than 2,000 illegals per year. At that rate it would take more than a quarter of a century to remove the more than 52,000 unaccompanied minors, largely from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, that have arrived at the border this year alone.

And that’s if they show up for a hearing at all. Goodlatte explained that the "overwhelming majority of them, more than 90 percent, do not return for their hearings and as a result we have a problem.” Unsurprisingly, the Obama administration has not provided figures for the number of illegals who don’t show up for hearings, even as it ludicrously claims the issue isn’t border-enforcement capacity, but what to do once an illegal is detained.

The 800-pound gorilla missing from the equation? If the president were truly interested in addressing the problem – aside from the obvious strategy of enforcing national sovereignty at our southern border, even if it took military troops to do so – he would make it clear to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto that allowing these illegals to reach America’s borders in the first place is chiefly Mexico’s problem. And if Mexico can’t solve it, then severe economic sanctions and the termination of foreign aid will result. Instead, Obama phoned Nieto to talk about "working together to return the children safely to their families and to build Central American capacity to receive returned individuals" because the nations had a “shared responsibility for promoting security in both countries and in the region.”

That very same week, the White House held a "Champions of Change" ceremony honoring 10 illegal activists who received temporary amnesty under DACA.

Middle America isn't buying any of it. In Lawrenceville, VA, residents rejected an effort by the feds to dump illegals in their midst, as did citizens in Escondido, CA. Democratic Mayor Dominic Barno asked the State Department not to send any more refugees to his “overwhelmed” city of Springfield, MA. New York is also being overwhelmed, but as the New York Times explains, illegals who are sent there “are flooding community groups, seeking help in fighting deportation orders, getting health care, dealing with the psychological traumas of migration, managing the challenges of family reunification and enrolling in school.”

Do Americans seriously believe that illegal aliens getting healthcare, enrolling in school, fighting deportation orders and reuniting with family members who themselves are likely illegal aliens will be leaving our nation any time soon? The Times inadvertently provides the most likely answer. “Federal officials will not reveal how many children they are holding, how many are being released or where they are being sent,” the paper reveals.

While the feds maintain such deplorable secrecy, the latest report released by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) won’t remain under the radar for long. It reveals all of the net gain in jobs between 2000 and 2014 went to legal and illegal immigrants, even as native-born workers lost jobs over the same time period. The report, which shows that immigrants gained a net 5.7 million jobs while natives lost 127,000 – and further reveals that a whopping 58 million working-age natives are not working – will undoubtedly ignite a firestorm when it becomes more widely disseminated. It also lays bare the utter bankruptcy of the pro-amnesty shills in both parties who claim we have a labor shortage, or that massive and ongoing immigration increases job opportunities for native Americans.

This nation is being tested as it never has before, and it is apparent that the ruling class and the immigration activists couldn’t care less if the fabric of the nation is destroyed in a quest for cheap labor, cheap votes and the permanent enshrinement of Third World values. Values aimed at undermining the American exceptionalism they disdain as jingoistic and imperialist. And spare me the denials. Those who would willingly subvert the rule of law in pursuit of their pernicious agenda can disguise that subversion any way they choose, but it is subversion of the law regardless.

If it is absolutely necessary to process certain categories of illegals, Americans should demand that it be done in a single location far removed from the general population, even if that amounts to a giant tent city or a series of FEMA trailers that can be assembled much as this nation does when it faces a natural disaster. The accompanying message should be clear as well: this is where you will remain until your court date, or until you voluntarily decide to return to the country of your origin. The gamesmanship being perpetrated by the Obama administration and its willing accomplices is appalling, and the genuine humanitarian crisis here is the one being endured by an American public, treated as nothing more than an annoying impediment to an agenda utterly inimical to their economic, legal and cultural interests.

Make no mistake: this isn’t what amnesty looks like; this is what amnesty is.

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