Guess what?  Immigration is still the talk of the town…..that town would be DC…..the rest of us are pretty much taken with trying to survive another day while the Congress fiddles……(that was a Nero reference, in case you missed it)……..well not everybody is sitting around doing other stuff…there is a town in Texas that wants to ban humanity………

As the issue of undocumented children streaming into the US heats up, one Texas town has taken action. League City’s city council last night passed a resolution, 6-2, that would see the city bar any federal request to operate a detention or processing center there, though the Houston Chronicle reports no such requests are known to have been made. The vote followed 90 minutes of what the Galveston County Daily News calls “impassioned pleas” from those on both sides of the argument, with some calling the measure—which cites a “potential threat of communicable diseases reported to be prevalent” among these migrants—”brave” while others described it as an “embarrassment.”

A legal expert tells KHOU the measure doesn’t have much legal footing: “It’s simply not the city’s legal right to tell the federal government what they can and cannot do in the area of immigration. Even states don’t have the authority to do this.” Heidi Thiess, the councilwoman who drafted the measure, says she wanted the city to take preemptive action before any requests came in—and embolden other municipalities to do the same. It seems to be working: Galveston County commissioners voted 4-1 yesterday in favor of a similar resolution, notes the Chronicle. As the paper explains, Border Patrol is required to move unaccompanied children from countries other than Mexico and Canada to the Office of Refugee Resettlement within 72 hours, but the detention network has been unable to keep up with the recent numbers. The feds yesterday looked at an empty Houston middle school as one potential new housing option.

I know that we like to think that we are in control….but I hate to tell Texas this…..but local statutes have NO hold over federal law……sorry, it is that simple.

Why is it always Texas or Arizona that is so full of crack pots and morons?

On another note……the US is doing what it does best……..instead of finding solutions to problems they want to throw money at it…….

The White House had been kicking around the idea of requesting $2 billion to deal with the unprecedented wave of underage immigrants arriving from Central America. Today, in a sign of just how fast the crisis is escalating, it made a formal request to Congress for nearly twice that amount, reports the Washington Post. The $3.7 billion would be divvied up among various agencies with a two-pronged goal: to speed up the deportation process while making sure that the kids get adequate health care in detention centers in the interim. Among other things, the money would be used to send more immigration judges to the border, build more holding centers, and beef up border-security patrols.

More than 50,000 unaccompanied minors and about 40,000 women with children have been caught on the border this year, mostly in Texas, far more than any other year. The White House said yesterday that most would not be allowed to stay, reports the Hill. Congress must approve the money, and a spokesperson for John Boehner suggested that it wouldn’t be a quick vote. “The speaker still supports deploying the National Guard to provide humanitarian support in the affected areas, which this proposal does not address,” he said. The request—see the White House fact sheet here—comes as President Obama prepares to head to Texas. He won’t visit the border, reports the New York Times, but he will now apparently meet with Gov. Rick Perry to discuss the situation. (Meanwhile, the UN wants the US to treat Central Americans as refugees.)

Granted something needs doing about the problem and every attempt should be tried to make sure that these children are treated in a humane fashion……..the main problem is the GOP…….they have bitched and moaned and in the end they do not want to spend the money for an attempt to control the situation……..just look at their fave crisis of last month…the VA.  They got plenty of mileage out of the problem and there is a bill but now they do NOT want to pay for the solution…….the border crisis will be more of the same.