Katrina was a natural disaster. The obama administration its One disaster after another it seems. Its almost like he has lost control of everything or he is deliberately creating another cluster fuck to deflect attention away from last week's screw-up. The week before to bring attention away from the previous week and so on and so on. What a disaster. Worst ever. How anyone can support this buffoon anymore is beyond reason.
Obama in Colorado in 2008 .. Such hope. The new politician. Such promise. America was in love with him.
Here is your president in 2016 ! LOL. What an embarrassment.
Obama in Colorado in 2008 .. Such hope. The new politician. Such promise. America was in love with him.
Here is your president in 2016 ! LOL. What an embarrassment.
Well how about we depoliticize it then, using a democratic congressman's interview with Jake Tapper on CNN Henry Cuellar is taking heat from the White House for calling the border situation Obama's "Katrina Moment."
TAPPER: And joining me now on the phone is Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar. He represents a border area of Texas.
Congressman, the White House is still saying that it doesn't plan to schedule a trip to the border for President Obama while he is in Texas raising money. You have said that the president is a step behind on this issue. If he doesn't visit the border on this visit, what step forward can he take?
REP. HENRY CUELLAR (D), TEXAS: Well, certainly, the reason I said that is because this just didn't happen last month.
It happened or started happening since last year, and maybe even before that. So, the administration knew this was going on. I wish that he would make the time to come up here. And if he wants to do the fund-raisers first and then after that stop by the border, it's not too far away.
And I think it will be good for him to put a face to it. But, again, it looks like he is dug in, not wanting to come and not going by what the critics are saying. But, again, that's up to the president. But, again, I would encourage him to come down to the border.
TAPPER: Do you think the president's policies in any way have contributed to this crisis?
CUELLAR: Well, I know what my Republican friends have been saying, that DACA and talking about immigration reform -- and I support immigration reform.
I don't think that's what is causing this. It's a complicated, very difficult way to come up with an answer. I know the root problems of violence and of course the poverty that we have up there. But I think one of the main things that's bringing this in is, there are perceptions down there, because the smugglers have been telling them this, that if you just get over to the border, and if you have a child, you will get a -- they don't call it a notice to appear, but el permiso, the permit, and you are going to be let go.
And, certainly, that is what's happening right now because of that 2008 human trafficking act that says that we treat contiguous countries and noncontiguous countries very differently. And that's what the Border Patrol is facing at this moment.
TAPPER: And tell us about the humanitarian crisis that this has created. You have been speaking about the sex abuse and the rape of these -- the young girls that have been trafficked across the border.
CUELLAR: Well, first of all, I wish that they wouldn't make this trip, because it is a very dangerous trip.
We have seen just in my area there was a -- they found somebody, I think about an 11-year-old young boy that they found dead. It's dangerous coming in, especially now, with the hot weather coming in July and August. And it's going to be very hard to make those trips, number one.
Number two, when I was with the first lady of Honduras at Lackland Air Force Base, we -- we started talking to the young kids. And we asked them -- because they are young girls. I'm letting you, they are just young 10-, 11-, 12-, 13-year-old girls and boys.
And we asked about the young girls. And they said -- Health and Human Services told us that about one-third of them get raped on the way up here. Just (INAUDIBLE) babies coming across.
And the other ting is that what people don't talk about is, think about the ones that never made it across. Think about the ones that the drug cartels and smugglers decided to keep down there in Mexico. So, it's a very tragic, very difficult situation for this young kids coming across.
TAPPER: A heartbreaking situation that needs action immediately.
Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas, thank you so much.
How is it a Katrina moment? First off I don't believe bush did anything wrong with Katrina. But this situation, they are illegals. What's he supposed to do with 10s of thousands of illegal immigrant children coming to the border. Especially with a Congress that hates illegal immigrants and hates spending money.
