The thousands of people flooding the U.S. border will eventually
be granted amnesty to stay, says Gabe Pacheco, spokesman for the
National Border Patrol Council in San Diego.
Appearing on "America's Forum" on
Newsmax TV
on Tuesday, Pacheco said the children, mostly from Central America,
will be absorbed into the population and it will morph into a form of
"de facto amnesty" that leads to chain migration.
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"Even if they come to amnesty or asylum, they've crossed the border illegally already," Pacheco said.
"They've broken the law. Yes, there's going to come some time and point
where the administration is going to have to say, yes, we're going to
have to give these people amnesty out of necessity. And then you'll have
the families come up with those children who are already here and have
established residency."
Because the Border Patrol in Texas is so overwhelmed, every 72 hours the
government sends groups of 140 people, mostly women and children, to
San Diego, Pacheco said, adding that there is no end in sight.
"We don't know when it's going to stop; that's just part of the process right now," he said.
The job of looking after all of the illegal children is so vast that
drug cartels and others are getting into the United States because there
is no one at the border to stop them, he added.
"Agents aren't there to deal with it because they're inside processing,
changing diapers, or doing something else," Pacheco said. "They're doing
basic administrative duties as opposed to actually the law enforcement
duties that they are sworn to do."
Additionally, agents are fearful of contracting a disease from one of
the migrants, though they take numerous precautions to mitigate the
chances.
"Some of them do have scabies," he said. "Some of them even have active
tuberculosis. There's one confirmed case of the swine flu, which is the
H1N1."
He expressed dismay that the Obama administration is requesting more
than $3 billion to care for all of the children coming in illegally
rather than to stem the tide and seal the border.
"The American people are going to foot that bill specifically for the care of these children," he said.
"My question is, why aren't they putting that $3 billion within Border
Patrol to their jobs on the ground to stop these people from coming
across?
"Why are we spending money to ship people across the country at this
moment in time and potentially having a problem with health across the
country? Look at what is going on as opposed to what is being said."
In an interview on Tuesday with
"The Steve Malzberg Show'' on
Newsmax TV, Rep. Ted Poe of Texas said immigration officials have
inexplicably restricted lawmakers who have wanted to visit the detention
facilities where the children are being warehoused.
"We were invited to go to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, but
under the condition you cannot talk to anybody, you cannot talk to the
staff, you cannot talk to these people that are here,'' Poe told
Malzberg.
"You can't take any photographs, no voice recording, you can't do
anything except look around. What are they hiding? Why won't they let
Congress see what has occurred on the border?''
Pacheco, who also spoke with Malzberg in a separate interview, said he saw no good reason for the shroud of secrecy.
"There's nothing there to be hidden, there's nothing in there that would
say, hey, you know what, [this is] out of the ordinary,'' he said.
"[There's a] temperature-controlled environment . . . running water . . .
toilet facilities, we feed them. In fact, [in] some of the places, the
doors are open so that these kids can run around if they want to in our
custody.''
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