{"id":20880,"date":"2014-06-11T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20880"},"modified":"2014-06-11T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T23:34:08","slug":"surge-in-illegal-immigration-triggered-by-alleged-fed-govt-%e2%80%98free-passes%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20880\/surge-in-illegal-immigration-triggered-by-alleged-fed-govt-%e2%80%98free-passes%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in Illegal Immigration Triggered by Alleged Fed Govt. \u2018Free Passes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Border Patrol memo obtained by the Washington Times and referenced today in a Senate hearing identifies the main reason Central American women and children are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jun\/11\/surge-illegals-blamed-us-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">risking illegal entry into the United States<\/a> \u2013 A guaranteed \u2018free pass\u2019 by federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe immigrants come seeking \u2018permisos,\u2019 which apparently are the \u2018notices to appear,\u2019 the legal documents given to non-Mexicans caught at the border,\u201d reports the paper. \u201cThose notices officially put the immigrants into deportation proceedings. The immigrants usually are released to await a court date, giving them a chance to fade into the shadows in the interior of the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Border Patrol memo, \u201cThis information is apparently common knowledge in Central America and is spread by word of mouth and international and local media.\u201d It goes on to say that, \u201cA high percentage of the subjects interviewed stated their family members in the U.S. urged them to travel immediately, because the United States government was only issuing immigration \u2018permisos\u2019 until the end of June 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only permissive immigration policy I\u2019m aware of that is slated to end this month is President Barack Obama\u2019s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals \u2013 or DACA \u2013 program.<\/p>\n<p>In my column this week I explain how President Barack Obama\u2019s Deferred Action program impels more illegal immigrants to bring or send for their children, hoping that once here the federal government will expand the <em>de facto<\/em> amnesty program.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, President Obama announced that he is extending DACA another two years to the end of his presidency. That means we can expect to see increasing numbers of Central American and perhaps other illegal immigrants flooding into the country seeking those promised \u201cpermisos\u201d that <em>allow <\/em>them to drift into the shadows and avoid deportation.<\/p>\n<p>Given enough time to put down roots perhaps they\u2019ll demand to come out of the shadows on a pathway to citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Border Patrol memo obtained by the Washington Times and referenced today in a Senate hearing identifies the main reason Central American women and children are risking illegal entry into the United States \u2013 A guaranteed \u2018free pass\u2019 by federal government. \u201cThe immigrants come seeking \u2018permisos,\u2019 which apparently are the \u2018notices to appear,\u2019 the legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,143,4526,4527,3778,1553,981],"class_list":["post-20880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-central-america","tag-daca","tag-deferred-action","tag-illegal","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20883,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20880\/revisions\/20883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}