The invasion of America…..
According to Chuck Ross at The Daily Caller, Obama’s White House staff is helping FEMA find “suitable” locations to warehouse the mostly teenaged (unaccompanied minor) boys until they can supposedly be screened and then released into America (they didn’t say the last part, I did).
I know I said last night that we were going to get in some other posts on other “refugees” today, but this story was too interesting to ignore.
Your local lawmakers have been approached by the White House, so be sure to ask them what they know!
The Daily Caller (emphasis is mine):
Desperate to figure out what to do with thousands of illegal immigrants that have been apprehended at the U.S. border, the federal government has created an email address to gather leads on facilities that could be used to house them.
The plea, contained in an email sent by Tara Corrigan of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and obtained by Los Angeles’s KFI News, also provides insight into how the Obama administration is helping coordinate the massive surge of illegal immigrants, which it calls an “unprecedented event.”
“Given that one of the challenges [the Department of Health and Human Services] HHS is facing is finding suitable facilities for unaccompanied children, I wanted to forward this e-mail from [Federal Emergency Management Agency] FEMA below to see if you all have folks in your networks that know of suitable facilities in your area,” reads Corrigan’s email, which she sent to local lawmakers on July 3.
Here are the criteria. Do you have such a building in your town?
They must be within 50 miles of a major city — defined as having a population of more than 200,000 — and be near an airport.
The facilities must also be at least 90,000 square feet in size, with each resident requiring at least 80 square feet of space.
It has to be leasable and “move-in ready.” Ideal building types include empty office areas, box stores, warehouses, shopping malls, aircraft hangers, hotels and dorms.
The FEMA email also lists such amenities as showers, toilets, kitchen and cafeteria space, recreational space and educational facilities as preferable but not required. “Climate-controlled” facilities are also preferred, but not required.
So, again, check with your local lawmakers to see if they have identified buildings for the feds and be sure to call your state refugee coordinator and ask what they know about locations in your state.
All of our previous posts on ‘unaccompanied minors’ are archived here.