Michiganders Panic Over Plan To House Immigrant Kids, Call For 'Border Minefield'
Source: The Raw Story
The Vassar Concerned Citizens Committee organized an informational meeting Wednesday about a possible plan by Wolverine Human Services to house up to 120 teenage boys from Central America in the eastern Michigan town. The Gross Pointe Park-based social services agency is negotiating a contract with Heartland Alliance, a Chicago anti-poverty organization, to allow the teens to stay for up to four weeks in Vassar, where they would receive medical care and basic education as their cases are heard in immigration court. They would then be connected with relatives in the U.S. or returned to their countries. One Vassar resident suggested militarizing the border.
“I support a minefield along the border,” said Terry Mocny, a Marine Corps veteran who said he supported legal immigration.
He suggested sending the undocumented children to the now-closed Standish Maximum Correctional Facility.
Another man, who claimed he was “allergic to bullsh*t” and walked out on comments from a Wolverine official, wore a surgeon’s mask around his neck to symbolize his concerns about germs.
“I fear within two years of letting these immigrants in, these masks will become standard,” said Tom Ratcliff, of Kingston, who volunteered to drive busloads of immigrant children back to the border. “The children that are involved here are only pawns,” said Tamyra Murray, an anti-immigrant activist. “They’re a game to control our nation. It’s an invasion, nothing less than an invasion.” Murray claimed the surge of immigrant children had been orchestrated by Central and South American governments to undermine the U.S., and an audience member shouted out that these immigrants would one day provide Democratic votes.
“If this program is allowed to proceed, it will never end,” she said. “Government entities, once they create something, they never exterminate it. It’s going to be a perpetual source of income, and for government agencies and committees in the federal government.” The housing of illegal aliens is violating U.S. laws (and) President Obama is failing to uphold the Constitution and laws enacted by Congress,” said Tom Wassa, a Republican candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives. “President Obama would be classified as a domestic terrorist. He is creating an atmosphere of fear and terror.”
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/10/watch-michiganders-panic-over-plan-to-house-immigrant-kids-call-for-border-minefield/
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