Arizona: Mass transfer of immigrants from Texas is creating a crisis

[El Supremo]

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Source: Dallas Morning News/AP

PHOENIX — Arizona officials — angry about the federal government sending from Texas to Arizona immigrants who are in the country illegally — said Friday that the state would rush federal supplies to a holding center in the southern part of the state that is housing migrant children.

Gov. Jan Brewer’s spokesman, Andrew Wilder, said conditions at the holding center are so dire that federal officials have asked the state to immediately ship the medical supplies to the center. In addition, Wilder said, the regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was being dispatched to Arizona to help deal with the crisis.

Wilder said reports from consulates that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was stopping the program to fly migrant families to Arizona and then bus them to Phoenix were incorrect. Instead, the program that has shipped unknown thousands of adult migrants and their children to Arizona since last month shows no sign of stopping, he said.

“The adults, the adults with children, families — that continues unfettered and we have no idea where they are going,” Wilder said. “The governor’s questions remain unanswered, and she is outraged about the lack of information being provided to the state of Arizona about this program.”

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20140606-arizona-feds-transfer-of-thousands-of-immigrants-from-south-texas-is-creating-a-crisis.ece

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[SoapBox]

1. WTF is right.

Be sure to look at the article at the link...there are so many WTF's in the story, that I don't even know where to start.

Of course, bottom line here is...all O-bama's fault.

[former9thward]

3. It is someone's fault.

The feds are dumping thousands of people, including children, at bus stations here in Phoenix. Without food or water in 110 degree heat.

[freshwest]

2. 48,000 children traveling on their own? WTH is going on south of the border?

[seveneyes]

4. WTF is our border patrol doing?

Just because everybody wants to come to the USA doesn't mean we have to keep letting them come in until the entire country turns into a 3rd world hellhole for the citizens living here just trying to make a decent living.

If where they are coming from needs our help to eliminate some bad guys then let's get it done. No sense taking in millions and millions of refugees into America.

[840high]

6. It's a mess. Wasn't the

border patrol told to back down?

[kristopher]

5. Locking as a duplicate of the link below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=820900

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