The Obama administration said it won’t house undocumented child migrants at Kentucky’s underused military installations in Fort Knox, amid opposition from the state’s two senators, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The paper reported that Sen. Rand Paul (R) kicked up a storm by announcing on Monday that the administration was considering the idea of housing the children at Fort Knox while they’re processed by the immigration system.
“I think what we should do is feed, clothe and send the kids back and find who’s responsible for them in their countries,” Paul was quoted as saying, voicing support for “trying to adjudicate and process things very quickly so they’re not sent to the interior of the country.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) similarly objected and was careful not to express an overt not-in-my-backyard sentiment. His spokesman Robert Steurer told the Courier-Journal that the senator wants to “secure the border, treat the children humanely and return them immediately, therefore, these children should not be housed indefinitely throughout the U.S.”
I suppose you could point out that giving them a Happy Meal at the border and shooing them away home to keep them out of the “interior” like they were boll weevils or something isn’t what the 2008 law that hasn’t to my knowledge been repealed says to do INPEACH! But Jon Stewart gets paid to do that and I don’t so never mind.
Fort Knox? somewhere, there’s a “Heart of Gold” comment hiding in this story…
wonder if all those kids are really searching for THIS…
They created the mess, want some other state to deal with it, scream that Obama is not leading, thwart Obama’s effort to get immigration reform done (lead), raise money off of the “invasion at our border”, pull expensive stunts (Perry moving 1000 guardsmen to the border), mouth token support that they “care” about the children, pose for photo ops at the boarder, cry about the scary brown teenage males they saw on the boarder, warn of terror babies, warn of disease carrying terror babies, warn of disease carrying terror baby drug mules, warn of disease carrying pregnant teenage mutant ninja turtle terror baby drug mules.
And then they wonder why their approval rating is lower than a good case of herpes.
First - of COURSE these two are against it, who didn’t see that coming?
Second - “treat the children humanely” and “return them immediately” seem to be exact opposites in this case. Which is it?
Feed them and clothe them, but not in MY state.