Tennessee lawmakers alarmed by reports White House secretly flying migrant children into state
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Via: vic-eldred • 3 years ago • 136 commentsBy: Brittany De Lea (Fox News)
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Lawmakers from Tennessee are sounding the alarm after reports that the Biden administration has been flying unaccompanied minors into the state in the middle of the night without their knowledge.
The White House is transporting migrants into an airport in Chattanooga from where they are bused to cities within the Southeast, as first reported by local news outlet WRCB-TV Channel 3.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said in a statement to Fox News that the transportation of migrants is taking place in "the dead of night without the knowledge or permission of the communities involved."
Lawmakers in the state are characterizing the situation as a symptom of the Biden administration's policies and pursuant failure to control the flow of migrants at the border, which has now put their communities at risk.
Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., said in a statement to Fox News that his residents deserve answers from the administration.
"I have warned for months that President Biden's failure at the border would result in a systematic resettling of migrants in our communities, burdening our schools, hospitals, and law enforcement agencies, and bringing an increase in drug trafficking and human smuggling," Hagerty said. "A new reality is happening in our country—every town is now a border town."
Blackburn said Biden has not only put these children at risk, but he is also putting Tennesseans at risk as she, too, demanded answers.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee led roughly 20 other Republican governors in sending a letter to the Biden administration calling for action at the southern border, noting that the immigration crisis was spilling over into many U.S. states.
"The Biden Administration refuses to secure the border and is instead scattering unaccompanied kids all over the country with no regard for the consequences," Lee said in a statement to Fox News. "When we push back and demand answers, they cut off transparency and embolden one of the worst human trafficking crises we've seen at our border in the last 20 years."
Spokespeople for the White House, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services did not return Fox News' requests for comment.
As previously reported by Fox News, the administration has been talking about fostering a decrease in the number of migrant children in U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facilities. However, as of last week, the number of children in HHS custody was more than 20,000.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said encounters at the border have declined to about 1,830 people per day but noted that a "fairly high" number of migrant children were still coming across.
Can we turn Tennessee blue?
Here is the Biden administration moving migrants into Tennessee, secretly.
This is a pure bullshit way to hide your incompetence Mr. Biden and cronies.
Seems to me that, in order to adequately house them, they can send them anywhere they like. I've heard a lot of complaints about overcrowded conditions in the border facilities. This is addressing that issue.
Adequately house them? hahahaha This is bullshit. Send them someplace that AGREES to house them and be used as a go between. Better yet, send them back over the border if the conditions are over crowded.
Did the state that Trump flew migrants to 'agree to house' them?
Oh and BTFW, the seed doesn't say WHERE the migrants are being 'housed'. It says they are being bused to 'cities within the Southeast'. Pretty fucking vague, but hey, it's to be expected from the 'journalists' at Fox 'News'.
So... The Federal government needs Tennessee's permission? Of course not.
The hell they don't............along with some big $$$ for the inconvenience and bad publicity.
Some say.
Why not send them to California? I'm sure the Governor there would welcome them with open arms.
Trump did that plenty of times. Issue?
Proof????
Though I doubt that you actually give a shit, here you go:
MAY 17, 2019 6:10 PM UPDATED 2 YEARS AGO.
Whoops - wanna add
Trump administration drops plan to send migrants from southern border to Florida, elsewhere
'Course, since it contains facts counter to your desires, if, of course, you give a shyte.
Guess there goes your "buncha times" thingy, eh?
Trying to pretend that flights never happened I see.
Let's see if you'll acknowledge what's in your own fucking link . It states:
Still in denial 1st?
Here's another one:
From the article:
Not what YOU desired...
Since I didn't say that, NO, it's NOT a thingy 1st. Strawman.
Newsflash sparky, not only are we accepting them, but we are treating them better than the previous administration ever did. They get beds and not a floor with a piece of tin foil. They have play areas and not cages. Teachers are on hand. Medical, nutritional, and hygiene needs are being met. Social services are finding their relatives or sponsors to take them in. Local merchants are donating needed things. Toddlers are not forced to wear the same diapers for days on end. We are trying to find their parents whose arms they were ripped out of. We treat them humanely unlike Sarah Fabian, a lawyer in Trump's Department of Justice, who argued at the US court of appeals for the ninth circuit that such children do not need soap, toothbrushes/toothpaste, and blankets. I would love to see that kind of person spend one month in a Mexican jail and see how she likes being denied the same things.
They should not be here in the first place. Why does Biden keep letting problems in?
If they are asylum seekers, they should.
You know you are talking about PEOPLE right? Why assume they are 'problems'?
Asylum seekers are not allowed to enter or stay in the country illegally. Illegal immigrants do not follow US law. Biden is violating US law by allowing them to remain.
Actually, they CAN. The statute SPECIFICALLY states:
Any alien who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States (whether or not at a designated port of arrival...)
The above shows how Trump's policy violated US law, you know, that thingy you pretend 'illegal immigrants' don't follow.
Again, WRONG. Study after study has proven that 'illegal immigrants' follow US law at a greater percentage than citizens...
BTFW, I see that you are conflating asylum seekers with 'illegal immigrants'. US law differentiates the two for a reason.
Sure, if one chooses to ignore the fact that they are here illegally and probably are working illegally, with stolen SSN and falsifying governmental I-9 forms.
NONE of those facts are ignored in the studies. Studies show that citizens violate US law MORE even taking those facts into consideration.
Oh BTW, I for one have NEVER filled out a I-9 form for a job and the vast majority of employers do NOT require them.
One irony is that paleo-conservatives choose to ignore that the Chamber of Commerce are one the most powerful voices AGAINST policing 'no-match' SS#s. They lobby against employers receiving 'Correction Requests'.
What a bunch of BS Dulay - "study after study"??????
"Conflating asylum seekers with illegal ALIENS (corrected it for you) is BS."
UNTIL their case has been heard in an Immigration court, they are NOT authorized to wander freely in the U.S. UNTIL their case is heard in an immigration court, they ARE STILL ILLEGAL ALIENS if THE COURTS have not authorized them to be in the U.S.
UNTIL their cases has been heard and adjudicated by an Immigration Court, TECHNICALLY, they are not allowed to be in the U.S.
Are you insisting that it's BS or are you questioning whether it's BS?????
False.
Again, false.
That's 3 unsubstantiated proclamations, ALL wrong.
BTFW, ever hear of 'innocent until proven guilty'? Try applying it to your statement. Perhaps it will get you to see the errors.
They never seem to tire of being wrong!
That is such complete and utter bullshit!
https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/handbook-for...
https://www.thebalancecareers.com/i-9-form...
https://www.uscis.gov/.../completing-section-2-employer-review-and-attestation
Maybe under-the-table employers don't bother, but then again, why would anyone be stupid enough to work under the table?
Can we assume that we will hear nothing from you when people NOT granted asylum are expelled from the US then?
2.0 Who Must Complete Form I-9 | USCIS
I have no clue who you claim to work for, but maybe they aren't doing things legally where you work. That, or you are sadly mistaken.
Not ONE of your links is functional Tex.
Nope, every one of my jobs have been above board. I misspoke about NEVER filling out an I-9 though. In 2020 I worked for the Census and that was the first and ONLY time I filled an I-9 form.
Strawman.
Oh and who the fuck are this 'we' you pretend to speak for?
Most employers use I-9's, probably because it's the law despite what you appear to think.
Look it up for yourself!
BTW, how did the link in post 3.2.10 work for ya?
I clicked on my link to USCIS and lo and behold, it took me to their website, where anyone willing and curious enough may simply type in "I-9" and obtain relevant info.
Not a strawman at all.
We is those subjected to your writings.
So, will we continue to hear from you when asylum is not granted and people are returned from whence they came?
Misspoke, eh? Is THAT what it is called?
You seemed so sure and absolutely positive when you claimed the following:
I suppose we could just agree that you were wrong on both parts of your claim.
YOU claimed that 'they' [illegal immigrants] are 'falsifying governmental I-9 forms'.
I stated that I never filled out an I-9 form for a job.
Though it took you a while, you now seem to recognize that it's the EMPLOYER who is required to file I-9 forms and therefore 'they' [illegal immigrants] are falsifying NOTHING.
Glad we could clear that up.
Thanks for playing.
Look, I know you don't have any personal experience that you can recall accurately filling out an I-9 form, so I don't think you have a clue what gets filled out by whom.
Perhaps if you clicked on the link I provided you with, you could learn something about it.
Could have sworn you told me you hired many people. Apparently not.
Employees (those folks being hired) are required to fill out parts of an I-9. And so are employers (those doing the hiring of employees).
I really don't have any hope of you ever understanding the law, but at least I tried.
Maybe this link will work better for you.
USCIS Form I-9 (treasury.gov)
Actually, NO. As YOUR block quote proves, I didn't fill out the I-9 form, the US government did so as my employer.
Secondly, that was the ONE time that I was required to actually review and sign and I-9 form and I have been employed full or part time since 1974. Even though I am retired, I just accepted a part time job with a multi-million dollar event venue on the beach. It'll be a 'tough job' hanging on Lake Michigan. I broke out my surf fishing rods yesterday. There was NO I-9 in the 'on-board' documentation.
I can't help it if you don't know what the law is. I have tried to educate you on it to no avail.
Not knowing is one thing, to be deliberately obtuse is something else altogether.
EMPLOYEES are required to fill out parts (or have someone help them). There is even a box on the form to check if you had help filling it out. Of course, if you knew what an I-9 form was, you would have already known that.
Employers are required by law to fill out I-9's for employees. It has been the law since 1986, for Pete's sake.
if illegal aliens are receiving paychecks from legitimate employers, they had to have filled out their part of an I-9. That would mean they had to have lied on the form, which is a felony.
You state many things.
Here is something you stated:
Which of your statements am I supposed to believe?
The one where you adamantly claim to never having filled out an I-9 form, or the one where you claim you did fill one out?
How am I supposed to tell which of your statements is true?
Go by your word??????????
I don't believe that will pass the smell test.
Didn't I just tell you that I reviewed and signed one last year Tex? Are you claiming to know more about me than I do?
I told you, NONE of them work.
I have. HR fills out I-9's Tex, NOT Managers.
Again, I have NEVER filled out an I-9, I HAVE reviewed and signed ONE.
YOU are the one that claimed that illegal immigrants were falsifying I-9 forms Tex. HOW do they manage that when the EMPLOYER is the one responsible authenticating it's content?
Certification: I attest, under penalty of perjury, that (1) I have examined the document(s) presented by the above-named employee,
(2) the above-listed document(s) appear to be genuine and to relate to the employee named, and (3) to the best of my knowledge the employee is authorized to work in the United States.
So since YOU insist that illegal immigrants are falsifying I-9 forms, YOU must believe that they are forging the signatures of employers too...
Wow, someone is triggered...
you at first claimed you had never filled out an I-9 in your life.
then you claimed you had done one, then you claimed your employer did it and you just signed it.
I have filled hundreds of them in my career.
since you have no experience with them to speak of, I will go with what I actually know instead of going with what you think you know about them.
but you have a good day now. y'hear?
yes, I don't easily tolerate people who spout off when they haven't got a clue.
Wow, you've been a new hire hundreds of times since 1986.
That's GOT to be some kind of record.
I could not care less what you can tolerate Tex. Learn to live with disappointment...
Where did he say that?
I really didn't figure i would need to explain it. but clearly I was mistaken.
read very, very carefully:
in the course of my career. I have filled out hundreds of I 9s. that's what employers do, along with employees.
as far as me living with disappointment. no need to worry. I expect so damn little that I am never disappointed when people don't know what the fuck they are droning on and on about.
I didnt, you know it. I know it and who cares if anyone else comprehends?
Trying their best for the last word.
he can have the last word.
it will be wrong, I am sure.
Duhhh - ILLEGAL ALIENS, no matter what mask they are wearing, are problems. Why??? 'Cause they WON'T follow the law.
Oh BTFW - I'd recommend you actually learn to UNDERSTAND the laws that are written instead of just parroting what you think they mean.
Big difference.
amen to THAT!
So how many of them were 'falsified' by illegal immigrants Tex?
Well that must mean that citizens are even worse problems 1st.
we has a few kicked back because the name didn't match the ssn.
that is part of the reason for I-9s.
people familiar with them know that already.
I just flat out don't buy your spiel about only having signed one in your entire life. not believable at all.
Honesty and truth allude you.
BTW, you must be an HR guy. I've managed over 10 companies in my career and NEVER filled out a I-9 for someone I hired. I left that to the office staff.
No, but bullshit baffles me.
Why MUST I be one? That's rather stupid. I am a restaurant manager. Never claimed otherwise.
Your inexperience with all things I-9 is telling in your posts.
I guess only glancing at one in your life could lead you to be rather uninformed on them. It isn't like you know what you are talking about or anything.
“Why does Biden keep letting problems in?”
because dems see them as votes.
They can't vote. You know that. They're children.
Democrats are playing the long ball. All of the those children will need to be made US citizens; who do you think they are going to support then?
Also, not everyone crossing the border is a child. Why is the Biden administration turn so few away at the border?
And the GOP sees them as sweatshop and minimum wage labor.... What's your point?
Why should the American taxpayers have to pay for them?
They need to look at this as a fututre investment to ensure that there are people that will work for minimum wage to cut their grass, shovel their snow, build and renovate their houses and to hand dry their cars after they've been run through the wash.....
Well gee, if that's true, perhaps the GOP should think about how to change some 'hearts and minds' in the 5 YEARS it would take them to become citizens instead of WHINING about it. It would behoove y'all to actually write a platform and express some policies that will attract their support. Get busy...
True but the issue they seem to have is that their kids almost invariably are born or become naturalized citizens and [gasp] vote for their interests and the interests of their parents.
Well if you listen to the right, they swear thatthose people that cut grass, and dry cars shouldn't be allowed to vote
Got any quotes to that effect, or is that just progressive "memory" making stuff up again?
Got to keep your eyes on on enemies of the Constitution.... foreign AND domestic. That and doing research on which racist organizations some of the NT members might be involved in
Speaking of which, you still supporting secession there in Texas?
Congrats on once again quoting me accurately.
Sure hope it wasn't too taxing.
Not sure what the point is in repeating my post without anything added. Not sure there even is a point.
The irony.......
Happy Friday rtb.....
We pay nearly 100 billion in subsidies to corporations every year. A few thousand kids are like a loogie in the Pacific Ocean.
You're right Dulay - why the futch should anyone follow any law anymore, right? Why should people - read that as ILLEGAL ALIENS - want to follow the laws that have been established FOR YEARS when Biden and family - read that as LIBERALS/DEMOCRATS - don't believe written and precedential laws are actually written for the good of U.S. CITIZENS??
Sorry FLY, but that's BS - nice try though.
So, you're gonna keep your eyes on the Liberals/Democrats who hate the Constitution?
Rotsa luck on that one.
Yeah, and we pay close to $300 BILLION a year to "take care" of the left's ILLEGAL ALIENS.
You devolved to ad hominem awfully quick 1st.
Tell you what, how about you cite where I said anyone shouldn't follow the law.
Oh and while you're at it, cite the law that you insist that 'LIBERALS/DEMOCRATS' are failing to follow.
Proof?
His MO
Don't hold your breath.
Who are they?
Report: Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $116 billion annually; Californians, Texans, Floridians pay the most
My grandparents immigrated from Ireland and Germany.
Does that make me less of an American, or a problem?
America is a country based on immigrants.
Folk just trying to make a better life for themselves.
If you are not a full blooded native Indian, you are a hypocrite.
What countries did your family immigrate from? Do you know your family history?
I admire my ancestors leaving everything they knew to try to make a better life here.
There was a potato famine and the choices were few for my mom's folks.
My father's family escaped from Russia to Germany to America due to wars.
They all sailed across a dangerous ocean in the hope of a better life here.
Have never had a problem with immigrants since I am the result of a few brave ones.
Problem is the country is full now
Your compassion and empathy for our fellow human beings is so underwhelming!
So how many are being transferred to your house or building? Ya wanna preach it, be it.
If there was any credibility in your post (there isn't) then you would put your money where your mouth is and take in some of these illegals into your home, clothe them, feed them and find them jobs (or just teach them how to be a leftist and live off the government tit).
Otherwise, hypocrisy be your middle name
What are those who want to let foreigners come here willing to give up for them?
Working people's money
BTW, are you old enough to have been around after the Viet Nam war?
Do you remember sacrificing for the refugees from Viet Nam?
Me neither...
Tax money was spent on them and I was paying taxes then
Don't believe you.
Thanks for the non-response reply.
Was that for the refugees dennis?
Nope, and you probably wouldn't have moaned about that either since the numbers were far, far, far different.
When President Gerald R. Ford authorized the entry of 130,000 refugees from the three countries of Indochina ( Vietnam , Cambodia, and Laos), 125,000 of whom were Vietnamese , into the United States on April 18, 1975, he was reacting to the victory of Communist forces in those countries with a one-time action.
Today, there are approximately 13 million KNOWN ILLEGAL ALIENS in the U.S.
HUGE, HUGE difference.
Yes 1st, the HUGE, HUGE difference is that you too are conflating asylum seekers [refugees] with 'illegal aliens'.
Typical.
So when they are denied asylum, you will be fine with them being deported, Perfect!
There is no real difference, on the southern border. Progressives and their cartel allies have taught illegal aliens to exploit the "asylum seeker" exception which was put in place to help actually persecuted people, not every immigrant. So almost all illegal aliens declare themselves asylum seekers if need be.
Do you have one iota of evidence for that bullshit Sean?
The CBP April data shows 178,622 encounters and 109,993 expulsions. That sure as fuck doesn't look like anywhere near 'almost all' to me...
You really have no idea how the system works, do you Dulay?
UNTIL their asylum request is heard in an Immigration Court, they DO NOT have permission, from the U.S. government, to wander throughout the U.S. as they wish.
Sorry you can't seem to fit logic with facts -
Ford, President of the United States, AUTHORIZED THE ENTRY OF 130,000 refugees from the SE Asia countries - TOTAL. No President, except the strongly lied too Ronald Reagan, has allowed/authorized ANY ILLEGAL ALIENS from south of the U.S. border to enter the U.S.
Learn Dulay - learn.
What did those tee shirts say in January??? BIDEN - PLEASE LET US IN. Who paid for the tee shirts? Sure as hell wasn't law abiding U.S. Citizens.
Used to be foreman on a ranch and hired Hmong as field hands.
Good workers and I treated them much better than they expected.
Sign language and a few packs of Marlboro normally carried the day.
Tennessee will have a problem with feral cats sent by Biden
What took you so long?
Thanks for showing Dulay how you really feel about 'foreigners'.
Actually we liberals are sending diseased cats from Russia into your right wing homes.
How can one ever trust a cat?
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