Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement is looking at 6 military bases to use to house the latest wave of illegal immigrants crossing our southern border. In November 5,600 unaccompanied minors crossed the border, 3 times more than November of 2014. The bases under consideration are:
–Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base near Montgomery, Ala.,
–Tyndall Air Force Base, FL (nearest city: Panama City, FL)
— Grand Forks Air Force Base, ND (nearest cities: Emerado, ND and Grand Forks, ND)
— Naval Support Activity Philadelphia, PA (nearest city: Philadelphia, PA)
— Hanscom Air Force Base, MA (nearest city: Bedford, MA)
— Travis Air Force Base, CA (nearest city: Fairfield, CA)
Rep. Martha Roby, Alabama Republican, is leading the charge against housing children at military bases. Mrs. Roby said,
“A military base is no place to house illegal immigrant children. Bases like Maxwell are engaged in real military activities – training, education, cyber warfare – many times in classified settings that are very sensitive. Their mission does not need to be distracted by housing, feeding and securing hundreds of detainees.
Housing illegal immigrant children at an active military base like Maxwell-Gunter is a terrible idea. We shut it down the first time and we are working every angle to shut it down again,” she said.
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There is another surge of illegal immigration. When you tell people that the President of the United States and his GOPe Supporters like Paul Ryan-O are not going to enforce immigration laws, that is what you get. And don’t be fooled by the so called “raids” that are complete baloney. Obama, his party and the scum GOPe Bearing Drift Boys don’t want to see any immigration law enforced in your lifetime.
Virginia, especially Fairfax and Arlington Counties are home to this surge. Your taxes in Fairfax are going to keep on skyrocketing because it costs 11,000 dollars plus to educate all those new little bundles of American joy… Fairfax schools are deeply overcrowded and sinking in red ink.
So Jeanine when you and a lot of the people here complain about Trump… enjoy your tax increases to pay for third world poverty. There is no other Republican who isn’t squishy on immigration, even Cruz…