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CLT UPDATE
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Do not be silent on
invasion
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Governor Deval Patrick on Wednesday said he
wanted to find a way for Massachusetts to help alleviate the crisis
of children seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, avoiding the
type of feud with the White House into which other governors have
been drawn, and invoking powerful imagery as his motivation.
“My inclination is to remember what happened when
a shipful of Jewish children tried to come to the United States in
1939 and the United States turned them away, and many of them went
to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps,” Patrick said when a
reporter asked how he viewed the border crisis. “I think we are a
bigger-hearted people than that as Americans, and certainly as
residents of Massachusetts.” ...
Estimates for how many children Massachusetts
could be asked to shelter, he said, had not yet arrived.
The Boston Globe
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Governor Patrick wants Mass. to host children
Cites example of Jews sent back to Europe who perished in Holocaust
After days of obfuscation — if not outright lies
— Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday decided to finally break the news
that his good buddy President Obama wants Massachusetts to help bail
him out of the immigration crisis that he has created on our
southern border.
“We have been asked by the administration ... to
consider whether we can shelter some number of unaccompanied minors
and we’re trying to sort out what that number is,” Patrick finally
told reporters yesterday.
“We’re trying to sort out about what our
capacities are, what the circumstances would be in the case of
unaccompanied minors at the border it would be in some sort of
secure facility,” Patrick added. “It’s not about bringing them into
neighborhoods or individual families.” ...
Obama should be negotiating their safe return,
not looking for a new accomplice to their detention.
A Boston Herald editorial
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Patrick fesses up
Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday he’s weighing a
request from President Barack Obama’s administration about whether
Massachusetts can shelter some of the unaccompanied children
crossing the nation’s southern border illegally.
If you ask Lynn Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy,
the answer would be a simple no.
“Lynn has always been a city of immigrants, it’s
always been welcoming, we understand the need, but there comes a
time when enough is enough,” she said....
A recent report from the Massachusetts Office of
Refugees and Immigrants shows that of the 725 projected new refugee
arrivals, 28 percent are expected to end up in Lynn. Another 28
percent are projected to arrive in Hampden County, 22 percent in
Worcester, 16 percent in Merrimack Valley and 6 percent in Suffolk
County.
Unlike Patrick, who was asked if the state could
house some of the minors crossing the border, Kennedy said no one
has ever notified, never mind asked, if the city could handle an
influx. And there has been an influx.
According to school enrollment figures, “out of
country” admissions stood at 36 for the 2010-11 school year, but
that number soared to 200 in 2011 and 2012 and has continued to
climb, topping out with 538 new out of country admissions during the
2013-14 school year....
Unaccompanied children from Central America have
been arriving at the border by the thousands, with 90,000 expected
by the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30. They flee violence, but also
are drawn by rumors that once here, they can stay.
The Lynn Daily Item
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Lynn mayor: ‘Enough is enough’
Governor’s plan for housing unaccompanied minors drawing fire
Adult illegal immigrants posing as
unaccompanied alien children appear to be attempting to enroll
at public high schools, city officials in Lynn, Mass., tell
National Review Online.
“Some of them have had gray hair and they’re
telling you that they’re 17 years old and they have no
documentation,” Jamie Cerulli, the Lynn mayor’s chief of staff,
tells NRO. “If my children went to the public schools, I’d be
very uncomfortable with all of these unaccompanied minors [that]
are placed in the ninth grade.”
Admission of all foreign students — illegal
immigrants, refugees, and foreign nationals — has increased by
more than 500 students since the 2010–2011 school year,
Catherine Latham, the city’s superintendent of schools, tells
NRO. Last school year, nearly 250 students arrived from
Guatemala, including 126 enrolled in the ninth grade.
National Review Online
Friday, July 11, 2014
Adult Illegal Immigrants Posing as Children To Enroll in High
School
A Massachusetts city‘s packed school system is being forced to
accept illegal-alien adults.
S1414 is purported to make a "technical
correction" to our state laws to allow our courts to determine
whether a person who is 18 to 20 years old has been abused,
neglected or abandoned.
Why the need for this? The Federal ICE
regulations allow special immigration status for juveniles who
come here under circumstances where they were subject to abuse,
neglect or abandonment. The Federal regs consider anyone under
21 years old to be minors. Massachusetts, as you know, has a
majority age of 18.
The determination of whether these people
have been abused, neglected or abandoned is relegated to our
state judges. Currently, our state judges are not allowed to
make this determination for adults; that is, people of age 18 or
over. This bill would allow our state's judges to do this for
people under 21.
What does this do? Contrary to the bill
sponsor's claim that it's a "technical correction," it is the
linchpin in ICE's process that would allow them to grant special
status for all those who are 18 through 20 years old, which
means that these people will be allowed to stay in the United
States at least until they reach majority age....
We have a crisis on our hands already with
the governor agreeing to take at least 1,000 unaccompanied
minors, many of whom will apparently be housed on Joint Base
Cape Cod. To add to this mess is clearly bad policy and, in
spite of the governor's claim that "the Feds will pick up the
tab," you know we'll be picking up part of that tab in the form
of services provided by our schools, hospitals, EBT cards,
housing, etc. Add to that the social costs of additional crime,
people working under the table (making it impossible for
legitimate businesses to operate), and the neighborhoods that
will be forever changed when these people are eventually
released, you have a recipe for disaster.
Write your state representative and senator.
Tell them to kill this bill.
State Representative
Randy Hunt
Thursday, July 17, 2014
How to make an illegal immigration crisis worse: S1414
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Chip Ford's CLT
Commentary
"I was called at 5 pm. I pointed out that
I had taken two trips, one in 2012 along the Arizona
southern border and
in 2013 along the Rio Grande in Texas. The borders, from
my viewpoint, were porous and mostly unprotected. The
illegals, still pouring into the country, would find
Massachusetts attractive because of this new lax driver’s
license law. Illegal immigration, already costing
Massachusetts $1.8 billion annually, would skyrocket. There
would be a demand for more revenues to cover this increase.
In Massachusetts, that means a demand for new or higher
taxes."
Testimony of Francis "Chip" Faulkner
March 5, 2014
Associate Director
Citizens for Limited Taxation
So here we are, and as usual, we're expected to
swallow it. Having spent at least (acknowledged by the Patrick
administration) $1.8 billion last year to support, sustain, and fund
the illegal invasion into our "country," President Obama's Siamese
twin joined-at-the-hip, Deval Patrick, has opened Massachusetts as
the necessary dumping ground for the world's needy that his Chicago
buddy Barack is importing wholesale, fast as he can.
Other governors of their respective states
— including other blue-state
strangleholds like Maryland and Connecticut —
have asserted "No Mas" — no illegals
housed in liberal states here in your grand plan.
Patrick's modest "77 rolling green acres," as
Boston Magazine described it [see photos
here] would make a wonderful summer camp for these poor, young,
defenseless refugees — no?
Hey, within that fence surrounding the White
House in Washington (does that one work?), Michelle could engage
them in tending to her healthful organic
garden. That might save us taxpayers a lot in pensions to her
otherwise-government employees with their pensions and all . . .
Honestly folks,
all of this is self-destructive insanity. We're being sold out
as a nation – America, the most uplifting societal movement in
history. If it goes, it's gone. Do you think in high tech today we
can EVER take it back?
The end of our republic
could well be closing in on us . . .
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The Boston Globe
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Governor Patrick wants Mass. to host children
Cites example of Jews sent back to Europe who perished in Holocaust
By Jim O’Sullivan
Governor Deval Patrick on Wednesday said he wanted to find a way for
Massachusetts to help alleviate the crisis of children seeking to
cross the U.S.-Mexico border, avoiding the type of feud with the
White House into which other governors have been drawn, and invoking
powerful imagery as his motivation.
“My inclination is to remember what happened when a shipful of
Jewish children tried to come to the United States in 1939 and the
United States turned them away, and many of them went to their
deaths in Nazi concentration camps,” Patrick said when a reporter
asked how he viewed the border crisis. “I think we are a
bigger-hearted people than that as Americans, and certainly as
residents of Massachusetts.”
He added, “Now getting from there to a practical solution, I have
not done yet. I’m trying to think that through.”
Patrick said his immediate challenge was finding where in
Massachusetts to house the children as the federal government, which
he said would pay for the assistance, determines how to handle the
nearly 60,000 children estimated to have migrated from Central
America.
The message from the federal government, Patrick said, was
essentially: “What can you do if anything to help shelter these
children while they’re being processed?”
Estimates for how many children Massachusetts could be asked to
shelter, he said, had not yet arrived.
“They’re not saying and haven’t asked that we take a certain
number,” Patrick said.
His invocation of the Holocaust appears to correspond to the story
of the St. Louis, a ship that sailed from Germany in the spring of
1939 carrying roughly 900 Jewish refugees. The ship was forced to
return to Europe, where more than a quarter are known to have died
in the Holocaust, according to the United State Holocaust Memorial
Museum.
“I think there’s a humanitarian reason to try to find a solution,
try to find a way to help,” he said Wednesday. “These are children,
coming from incredibly dangerous places. And we have to do something
sensible and humane while we process them for whatever the step is.”
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who has shown the type of
interest in a 2016 presidential candidacy that Patrick has eschewed,
has found himself in a public spat with the Obama administration
over the issue.
O’Malley last week criticized the administration for being too
callous toward the children. A top Obama aide later reportedly
called O’Malley to contest the remarks. During the call, according
to published reports, O’Malley asked that the immigrant children not
be sent to a facility in western Maryland.
O’Malley aides have said that he is working with federal officials
to find suitable places in Maryland for the children to go.
Patrick, who is personally close with Obama, on Wednesday pointedly
did not criticize the administration’s handling of the border
crisis.
Also on Wednesday, Governor Dan Malloy’s administration turned down
a federal request to house 2,000 children at a mostly vacant
facility in Southbury.
The Boston Herald
Thursday, July 17, 2014
A Boston Herald editorial
Patrick fesses up
After days of obfuscation — if not outright lies — Gov. Deval
Patrick yesterday decided to finally break the news that his good
buddy President Obama wants Massachusetts to help bail him out of
the immigration crisis that he has created on our southern border.
“We have been asked by the administration ... to consider whether we
can shelter some number of unaccompanied minors and we’re trying to
sort out what that number is,” Patrick finally told reporters
yesterday.
“We’re trying to sort out about what our capacities are, what the
circumstances would be in the case of unaccompanied minors at the
border it would be in some sort of secure facility,” Patrick added.
“It’s not about bringing them into neighborhoods or individual
families.”
Faced with the prospect of people demonstrating in the streets of
some border communities, the Obama administration has quite
naturally turned to immigrant-friendly Massachusetts — which at
least for the next six months is still being run by his favorite
go-to governor.
Just 24 hours earlier Patrick had rapped Republican gubernatorial
hopeful Charlie Baker for spreading “misinformation” all the while
admitting, “We have been in touch with the White House, as have most
governors, about how we — if at all — can help shelter some of the
unaccompanied minors ...”
Of course Massachusetts already is sheltering hundreds of those
children. In a column in yesterday’s Boston Globe, Marcela Garcia
wrote that in the past year Chelsea public schools have enrolled 720
new students, 285 of them “who came directly from El Salvador,
Honduras and Guatemala.”
Yes, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Massachusetts was happy to
provide temporary shelter for those displaced. But this crisis at
our border is entirely man-made. Sheltering these minors will only
do one thing — encourage more to make the perilous journey. How is
that a humanitarian approach to the problem?
Obama should be negotiating their safe return, not looking for a new
accomplice to their detention.
The Lynn Daily Item
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Lynn mayor: ‘Enough is enough’
Governor’s plan for housing unaccompanied minors drawing fire
By Chris Stevens
Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday he’s weighing a request from
President Barack Obama’s administration about whether Massachusetts
can shelter some of the unaccompanied children crossing the nation’s
southern border illegally.
If you ask Lynn Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy, the answer would be a
simple no.
“Lynn has always been a city of immigrants, it’s always been
welcoming, we understand the need, but there comes a time when
enough is enough,” she said.
However, Patrick said if the state agrees to shelter the children,
they would be held in a secure facility and “not released into the
neighborhoods.” Kennedy said if that were to happen, “it shouldn’t
affect Lynn one way or the other.”
The only exception she said is that it might divert funds to care
for the children that could have otherwise helped Lynn with its
growing immigration problem.
Patrick called the situation at the southern border a “humanitarian
crisis” and said that while there are limits to the assistance that
the state can provide, Massachusetts should do what it can.
“We need to understand the scope of what it is that we are being
asked to do, but I can tell you personally that I don’t think as a
commonwealth that we can turn away and turn our backs to children
who are coming from desperate situations,” Patrick said.
Kennedy insists the city is not turning its back on the minors or
the refugees who come into the city either, but she is looking for
help and a little equity. She said if refugees and/or unaccompanied
minors are going to be sent to the commonwealth and they are not
held in facilities, then they should be distributed equally among
the state’s communities.
A recent report from the Massachusetts Office of Refugees and
Immigrants shows that of the 725 projected new refugee arrivals, 28
percent are expected to end up in Lynn. Another 28 percent are
projected to arrive in Hampden County, 22 percent in Worcester, 16
percent in Merrimack Valley and 6 percent in Suffolk County.
Unlike Patrick, who was asked if the state could house some of the
minors crossing the border, Kennedy said no one has ever notified,
never mind asked, if the city could handle an influx. And there has
been an influx.
According to school enrollment figures, “out of country” admissions
stood at 36 for the 2010-11 school year, but that number soared to
200 in 2011 and 2012 and has continued to climb, topping out with
538 new out of country admissions during the 2013-14 school year.
Superintendent Catherine Latham said she does not have numbers for
September 2014 yet, but she is anticipating an increase, which puts
a strain on both the school buildings, which are overcrowded, and
the budget, since she has had to hire additional staff.
Patrick said his administration is still trying to understand the
scope of what it is Massachusetts is being asked to do and how many
minors the state could shelter. He also noted that similar requests
have been made to all states. He didn’t say when he would make a
final decision about how many children the state could shelter.
“We’re trying to sort out what that number is,” he said.
Unaccompanied children from Central America have been arriving at
the border by the thousands, with 90,000 expected by the end of the
fiscal year Sept. 30. They flee violence, but also are drawn by
rumors that once here, they can stay.
President Obama has requested $3.7 billion in an emergency spending
request to help address the situation at the border. Republicans
have been pushing to significantly pare down that request.
Kennedy said she wished Obama would send some of that $3.7 billion
Lynn’s way to help fund services for the refugees and minor
children.
“From an economic point of view and a quality of life, the city of
Lynn can’t accept much more,” she said, adding that the burden needs
to be shared equally, “and not just thrown at the feet of Lynn.”
Material from The Associated Press was used in this story.
National Review Online
Friday, July 11, 2014
Adult Illegal Immigrants Posing as Children To Enroll in High School
A Massachusetts city‘s packed school system is being forced to
accept illegal-alien adults.
By Ryan Lovelace
Adult illegal immigrants posing as unaccompanied alien children
appear to be attempting to enroll at public high schools, city
officials in Lynn, Mass., tell National Review Online.
“Some of them have had gray hair and they’re telling you that
they’re 17 years old and they have no documentation,” Jamie Cerulli,
the Lynn mayor’s chief of staff, tells NRO. “If my children went to
the public schools, I’d be very uncomfortable with all of these
unaccompanied minors [that] are placed in the ninth grade.”
Admission of all foreign students — illegal immigrants, refugees,
and foreign nationals — has increased by more than 500 students
since the 2010–2011 school year, Catherine Latham, the city’s
superintendent of schools, tells NRO. Last school year, nearly 250
students arrived from Guatemala, including 126 enrolled in the ninth
grade.
The majority of unaccompanied Guatemalan children arriving in the
city hail from the city of San Marcos, Latham says, and are drawn by
Lynn’s large Guatemalan population.
NRO has obtained Department of Health and Human Services documents
and images of two unaccompanied aliens living in Lynn that appear to
challenge the notion that the age information listened for these
“children” on their documents is accurate.
Isai, pictured above (his full name has been withheld), was released
from an HHS shelter to a person identified as a “family friend,”
living in Lynn, according to his “Verification of Release Form” from
HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement. According to the information
provided on the form, HHS approved Isai’s release less than a month
before the date of his 18th birthday.
Candelaria (full name also withheld), pictured above, was released
from a shelter in El Paso, Texas, to her sister Amelia who lives in
Lynn, according to her Verification of Release Form. Candelaria’s
record also claims she was 17 years old at the time of her release.
Isai and Candelaria are enrolled in the ninth grade and are expected
to arrive in class this fall, Latham confirmed to NRO. When
potential age discrepancies arise, Latham says city officials visit
the residences of the “minors” to attempt to verify the age of the
individuals in question. On one occasion that she’s aware of, Latham
says a relative at one such residence identified an illegal
immigrant “child” as between the ages of 30 and 35.
The school system has turned away a handful of people who appeared
too old, Latham says, but she’s suspicious of a quite a few other
cases.
How to make an illegal immigration crisis
worse: S1414
State Representative
Randy Hunt
Thursday, July 17, 2014
297 Quaker Meeting House Road
East Sandwich, MA 02537
I have received many emails and phone calls asking me to vote
against Massachusetts Senate Bill 1414. I agree with that sentiment
and here's why:
S1414 is purported to make a "technical correction" to our state
laws to allow our courts to determine whether a person who is 18 to
20 years old has been abused, neglected or abandoned.
Why the need for this? The Federal ICE regulations allow special
immigration status for juveniles who come here under circumstances
where they were subject to abuse, neglect or abandonment. The
Federal regs consider anyone under 21 years old to be minors.
Massachusetts, as you know, has a majority age of 18.
The determination of whether these people have been abused,
neglected or abandoned is relegated to our state judges. Currently,
our state judges are not allowed to make this determination for
adults; that is, people of age 18 or over. This bill would allow our
state's judges to do this for people under 21.
What does this do? Contrary to the bill sponsor's claim that it's a
"technical correction," it is the linchpin in ICE's process that
would allow them to grant special status for all those who are 18
through 20 years old, which means that these people will be allowed
to stay in the United States at least until they reach majority age.
We have a crisis on our hands already with the governor agreeing to
take at least 1,000 unaccompanied minors, many of whom will
apparently be housed on Joint Base Cape Cod. To add to this mess is
clearly bad policy and, in spite of the governor's claim that "the
Feds will pick up the tab," you know we'll be picking up part of
that tab in the form of services provided by our schools, hospitals,
EBT cards, housing, etc. Add to that the social costs of additional
crime, people working under the table (making it impossible for
legitimate businesses to operate), and the neighborhoods that will
be forever changed when these people are eventually released, you
have a recipe for disaster.
Write your state representative and senator. Tell them to kill this
bill. Look them up at
http://www.malegislature.gov
Regards,
Randy
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