50 Million Dollar Resort For Illegals

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View attachment 8519FEDS TO OPEN $50 MILLION RESORT FOR ILLEGAL CHILDREN – Complete With Tennis Courts, Sauna & Pools
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, 6:45 AM

Guest post by Kristinn Taylor

Welcome to America!

The Obama administration has awarded a $50 million contract to a charitable group to buy a Texas resort hotel and transform it in to a 600 bed facility for juvenile illegal aliens.

The beautiful Palm Aire resort and hotel has an indoor Olympic sized pool and an outdoor pool. Free Wi-Fi and cable TV are included in the simply decorated guest rooms.

The Palm Aire Hotel and Suites is set to be sold to Baptist Child & Family Services (BCFS) operating under a federal contract, pending local government approval, according to reports from Weslaco, Texas where the hotel is located. Weslaco is a few miles north of the Rio Grande in Hidalgo County.

The resort hotel for illegal alien children is reportedly the ‘first in the nation’.


The Palm Aire includes tennis courts, a laundromat and a snack bar.

The plan is to have the hotel ready for illegal alien children ages 12 to 17 by October 1st of this year, a mere two-and-half months from now. It is expected the average stay will be about fifteen days.

The Palm Aire Hotel and Suites currently advertises amenities such as two outdoor swimming pools—one Olympic sized—Jacuzzis, sauna, steam room, two racquetball courts, outdoor tennis courts, picnic area with grills and a fitness center with twenty machines and free weights.


A luxurious fitness center is on site at the Weslaco Palm Aire Hotel and Suites. Guests can also wind down in the sauna after a long trip.

Attracted to the space for outdoor recreation at the Palm Aire Hotel and Suites, BCFS spoke of building a soccer field at the hotel and adding a perimeter fence.

BCFS plans to employ 650 people at the Palm Aire Hotel and Suites, which would mean slightly over one worker per illegal alien child. According to the BCSF Website, the charity’s jobs pay from $10 to $45 per hour.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...dren-complete-with-tennis-courts-sauna-pools/
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I notice, amidst all the snarking that's already coming out of the right, nobody is being critical of the Southern Baptist church, who are the ones getting the money.

So, lemme see here... Obama has been called (along with many other much worse things) a Muslim, a Communist & an atheist by the right. He's had his Christian faith questioned & impugned. All the while, the right has been making the claim that rather than govt assistance programs, the poor & needy, etc., should rely on faith-based charitable organizations, even going so far as to advocate govt funding of said faith-based charities & letting them handle everything.

Now, Obama is partnering with the biggest Christian organization in the country to handle a major humanitarian crisis.

Looks to me like the right is getting what it's been asking for all along.

So, where's the problem here?
 
MrJim said:
I notice, amidst all the snarking that's already coming out of the right, nobody is being critical of the Southern Baptist church, who are the ones getting the money.

So, lemme see here... Obama has been called (a!ong many other much worse things) a Muslim, a Communist & an atheist by the right. He's had his Christian faith questioned & impugned. All the while, the right has been making the claim that rather than govt assistance programs, the poor & needy, etc., should rely on faith-based charitable organizations, even going so far as to advocate govt funding of said faith-based charities & letting them handle everything.

Now, Obama is partnering with the biggest Christian organization in the country to handle a major humanitarian crisis.
Looks to me like the right is getting what it's been asking for all along.

So, where's the problem here?
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One of the problems, Jim, is these are illegals who are breaking the law, and being treated to luxuries no legal immigrants are being granted to enjoy by government funding. As for the right advocating government funding of faith based charities, I had never heard about that....do you have a link for it?
 

Misty said:
One of the problems, Jim, is these are illegals who are breaking the law, and being treated to luxuries no legal immigrants are being granted to enjoy by government funding. As for the right advocating government funding of faith based charities, I had never heard about that....do you have a link for it?
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Well, it's kinda early in the game to be making assumptions about which luxuries they are going to be "treated to". Since nobody has spent any time there yet & no operational plans have been put into place, we cannot just assume that the place will be like a free-for-all luxury vacation with unlimited swimming & recreational privileges, or Mexican kids lounging by the pool, sipping soft drinks thru straws, from hollowed out coconut shells with little umbrellas sticking out, served by an attentive, bowing & scraping wait staff.

I would venture to guess that there will likely be strict rules & restrictions attached to the use of the recreational facilities. As far as the food & medical services are concerned, they are children. They have to be fed & cared for. Unless the right is in favor of letting them starve & be sick.

Also, their stay there is going to be limited to two weeks, after which, I assume, they'll be moved to a more " no-frills" facility.

Finally, we have to assume that, at some point, this child influx is bound to end. At this point, the resort faciliies will probably revert to housing American displaced women & children, or needy families. I would assume the Baptists are looking ahead to future possible uses for the facility & would then work out some purchase agreement with the feds.

As for your link request...

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0410.sullivan.html

https://www.au.org/resources/publications/the-faith-based-initiative

https://www.au.org/church-state/october-2002-church-state/featured/faith-based-flim-flam

If you'd like to see several more, copy & paste the following search criteria into Google search bar:

republicans advocate funding faith based charities



 


Thanks for the links, Jim. Very Interesting. If I read correctly, Bush was criticized for not following through with his original faith based initiative. In the Washington Monthly article I found this interesting.

Quote:

In the last few years, a few studies have looked at both faith-based and secular social service providers, and they have particularly tried to replicate the incredible results boasted by the model Texas programs. The verdict? There is no evidence that faith-based organizations work better than their secular counterparts[/QUOTE]

And this in the AU article
Quote:

The concept of a federal office aimed at finding ways to funnel tax money to religious groups is impossible to square with our country’s tradition of separation of church and state.Houses of worship are better off using their own funds for social-service projects. [/Quote]

These references don't agree with the government giving funds to churches to help social service projects. Wouldn't housing illegal immigrants and the poor in a spa be considered social service projects?

There must be far more reasonably priced dwellings than a 50 million dollar spa to house them for a couple weeks.
 

Due to the backlash the charity received after the story was posted on The Drudge Report, Baptist Child and Family Services withdrew it’s bid for the Palm Aire Resort.The charity said it was disappointed and that the resort would have been perfect for the illegal alien children.
 
Illegal immigrant children or YMCA campers? Some people are so het up they can't tell the difference.

CBS/AP
July 16, 2014, 11:27 AM
Arizona protesters mistake busload of YMCA campers for immigrant children

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Adam Kwasman, a Tea Party patriot running for congress (R), has a heated discussion with an anti-immigration activist during a protest along Mt. Lemmon Road in anticipation of buses carrying illegal immigrants on July 15, 2014 in Oracle, Arizona.



ORACLE, Ariz. -- Protesters waved "Return to Sender" signs, shoved a group of mariachi musicians and waited for a bus of immigrant children that the local sheriff told them would arrive. At one point, they briefly halted a bus before realizing it was carrying children from a YMCA. According to USA Today, Arizona Rep. Adam Kwasman was among those who thought that the bus of YMCA campers was full of migrant children, tweeting: "Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law."
He later deleted the tweet and apologized for the mistake.
The bus of Central American children never arrived, ending a day of protest in a small Arizona town that drew more than 100 people on both sides of the immigration debate.

Sheriff Paul Babeu is credited with stirring up the anti-immigrant protesters through social media postings and a press release and by leaking information about the migrants' arrival to a local activist. The Sycamore Canyon Academy acknowledged that it had an agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services to take in a "small number" of immigrant children from Central America, but it did not specify how many and when they would arrive.

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Anti-Immigration activist Kim Bailey (C) talks to immigrant rights protesters along Mt. Lemmon Road in anticipation of buses carrying illegal immigrants on Jully 15, 2014 in Oracle, Arizona.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona...sload-of-ymca-campers-for-immigrant-children/
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Perhaps the resort story is a bit overblown too. Is it a resort or a suitable property that can be converted into a hostel ?
 
Separation of church and State, we hardly knew ye.

I guess the stereotype has come full circle now - Mexican / South American kids lounging by the pool while po' white trash works as pool- and cabana boys ...
 
They need to be fed, clothed have a health check and returned home.

This seems to be too organized, for thousands of people to decide to send their children here en masse...all of a sudden...?

Can Cartels behind it perhaps?

Border patrols can't bother with drug smugglers when they are trying to place thousands of children.
 
Elyzabeth said:
They need to be fed, clothed have a health check and returned home.

This seems to be too organized, for thousands of people to decide to send their children here en masse...all of a sudden...?

Can Cartels behind it perhaps?

Border patrols can't bother with drug smugglers when they are trying to place thousands of children.
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I think the children are turned over to the Human Resource Department per the law...

Oh, and btw....I wouldn't call the Palms Aire Resort a 'Spa' when you can rent one of their roach infested rooms for $59 a night.....look it up on Tripadvisor.

What is fueling this influx? Why have so many children from Central America attempted to enter the U.S. over the past nine months?
A study by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees found that 58 percent of the unaccompanied children are motivated by safety concerns, fearing conditions back home.
Their home countries have been racked by gang violence, fueled by the drug trade. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, "Salvadoran and Honduran children ... come from extremely violent regions where they probably perceive the risk of traveling alone to the U.S. preferable to remaining at home."
There's violence in Guatemala, too. Many Guatemalan children, however, come from poor rural areas and may be seeking economic opportunities. The same is true for children from poorer parts of El Salvador. For many, the prospect of reuniting with family members in the U.S. is also a powerful motivating force.
Central American families may have been misled by rumors — often spread by profit-seeking smugglers — that their children will readily be reunited with relatives already in the U.S.
Republicans argue that the president's 2012 decision not to deport so-called dreamers — young adults brought to the country illegally as children — has led more families to hope for similar treatment.
Why are Central American children treated differently than Mexican children attempting to cross the border illegally?
U.S. policy allows Mexican child migrants to be sent back quickly across the border. However, under a 2008 law meant to combat child trafficking, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, children from Central America must be given a court hearing before they are deported (or allowed to stay). Given the huge backlog of cases, they may have to wait years for a hearing.
"Because of a backlog, which is growing greatly with the recent influx, in essence a kid released tomorrow could stay in the U.S. for up to three years waiting for that date," explains NPR's Carrie Kahn. "And for most of these kids, that's three years with a long-lost relative or three years away from extreme poverty and violence."
In the meantime, as many as 90 percent of the children stay with relatives or family friends already living in the U.S., with the rest placed in foster care, according to theMigration Policy Institute.
President Obama recently asked Congress to amend the 2008 law to make it easier to repatriate Central American children more quickly.
http://wfit.org/post/whats-causing-l...rief-explainer

Unaccompanied minors fall under the bipartisan law, William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, which passed the House and Senate unanimously and was signed into law by President George W. Bush.

That law says the children cannot be sent back. They must instead be held humanely by the Department of Health and Human Services until the courts release them to a “suitable family member” in this country.
The child “shall be promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child,” the law stipulates. “Placement of child trafficking victims may include placement in an Unaccompanied Refugee Minor program … if a suitable family member is not available to provide care.”
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources say more than 80 percent of these children will find permanent homes in the U.S., with either family or foster homes and not be sent back to Central America.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...-wave-u-s-law/

The below article has more on the 2008 law and how President Obama is trying to get it changed so that the illegal immigrates can be deported faster.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...rder/11915723/
 
Oh, and btw....I wouldn't call the Palms Aire Resort a 'Spa' when you can rent one of their roach infested rooms for $59 a night.....look it up on Tripadvisor.
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I'm questioning the $50 million luxury resort tag too. Other reports put its value at $3.2 to $4 million. Given that fairly ordinary suburban houses where I live are bringing around $750,000, I don't thing $3 to $4 million is all that high. Has anyone checked whether the photo is Palms Aire Resort or just a file photo?
 
Most Voters Want to Send Latest Illegal Immigrants Home ASAP
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Thursday, July 17, 2014


Most voters don’t want any of the young illegal immigrants who’ve recently arrived here housed in their state and say any legislation passed by Congress to deal with the problem should focus on sending them home as soon as possible.


The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the primary focus of any new immigration legislation passed by Congress should be to send the young illegal immigrants back home as quickly as possible. Just 27% say it should focus instead on making it easier for these illegal immigrants to remain in the United States. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)


Advocates for the illegal immigrants argue that they are flooding into the country to escape violent situations in their home countries, but just 31% of U.S. voters think they are coming here now for their own safety. Most voters (52%) believe they are coming here for economic reasons. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure.


Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who last week criticized efforts to deport these illegal immigrants, is now reportedly the latest governor to tell the White House not to house any of them in his state. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters disapprove of housing these illegal immigrants in their state. Only half as many (29%) approve, while 14% are undecided.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...t_to_send_latest_illegal_immigrants_home_asap
 
Dame Warrigal said:
I'm questioning the $50 million luxury resort tag too. Other reports put its value at $3.2 to $4 million. Given that fairly ordinary suburban houses where I live are bringing around $750,000, I don't thing $3 to $4 million is all that high. Has anyone checked whether the photo is Palms Aire Resort or just a file photo?
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Just guessing here, but I think the $50 million contract also covered staffing the facility & stocking it with whatever necessities would be involved in taking care of the kids.
 
MrJim said:
Just guessing here, but I think the $50 million contract also covered staffing the facility & stocking it with whatever necessities would be involved in taking care of the kids.
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Not to mention the amount of money needed for upkeep of their indoor and outdoor pools .... $$$$$$$
.. AND to hire people to teach all those kids how to swim ... couldn't have anyone drown or there would be bigger problems.

Sorry for being so sarcastic, but it seems insane on any level.
 
Well, whatever you do, it is probably more humane than what we do over here. We put them all in mandatory detention, not on the mainland if we can help it, but in hellish facilities on malaria ridden islands where we pay foreign governments and foreign contractors huge amounts of money to do our dirty work. They are kept hidden from the view of the Australian public, lest we start to empathise with them. Then we try offering them up to $20,000 each to return whence they came or face the rest of their lives where they are. Lately we've been towing back boats to Indonesia and have even handed Sri Lankan asylum seekers back to the Sri Lankan navy, the very people they were seeking to escape.

And still they come. What they are fleeing must be horrendous.

I'm ashamed of our government, and the previous one that was little better.
 
Not at all. People take to the streets in protest but there are not enough of them. Our media has been demonising "illegals" who arrive by boat for the last decade and their faces have been kept away from our gaze so that they have become synonymous with muslim terrorists, regardless of who they are and where they come from.

All of the churches have condemned the government's treatment of asylum seekers and I have personally written letters to various ministers for immigration on behalf of families and children. If anything, over time, things have got worse, not better.

It's not as if we don't have room. Our country is the size of mainland USA and we have a population of about 24 million, so it is mostly empty. Nor is it because we can't afford to house these people on the mainland until the processing is done. Per capita we are one of the wealthiest countries in the world although the wealth distribution is very skewed towards the top income receivers. And it's not because we can't handle migrants and asylum seekers. We have a good history of immigration and multicultural integration of newcomers since the end of WW II.

However, recent governments have made asylum seekers a political football with each one trying to position themselves as having the toughest policy on unauthorised boat arrivals. Australians have a very strong xenophobic streak that is all to easy to appeal to. You only have to listen to talk back radio to hear what people think. It makes me cringe.

If you are on Facebook take a look at the home page of Gosford Anglican Parish and you will see that not all Australians are anti asylum seekers. Just take a look at the photos of the church sign out the front.

https://www.facebook.com/anggos/photos_stream

Additional - The UNHCR people are currently inspecting the detention centre on Christmas Island which is an Australian run facility. Apparently they are not impressed by the condition of the children and this facility is much better run than the off shore ones.
 
Dame Warrigal said:
Not at all. People take to the streets in protest but there are not enough of them. Our media has been demonising "illegals" who arrive by boat for the last decade and their faces have been kept away from our gaze so that they have become synonymous with muslim terrorists, regardless of who they are and where they come from.

All of the churches have condemned the government's treatment of asylum seekers and I have personally written letters to various ministers for immigration on behalf of families and children. If anything, over time, things have got worse, not better.

It's not as if we don't have room. Our country is the size of mainland USA and we have a population of about 24 million, so it is mostly empty. Nor is it because w can't afford to house these people on the mainland until the processing is done. Per capita we are one of the wealthiest countries in the world although the wealth distribution is very skewed towards the top income receivers. And it's not because we can't handle migrants and asylum seekers. We have a good history of immigration and multicultural integration of newcomers since the end of WW II.

However, recent governments have made asylum seekers a political football with each one trying to position themselves as having the toughest policy on unauthorised boat arrivals. Australians have a very strong xenophobic streak that is all to easy to appeal to. You only have to listen to talk back radio to hear what people think. It makes me cringe.

If you are on Facebook take a look at the home page of Gosford Anglican Parish and you will see that not all Australians are anti asylum seekers. Just take a look at the photos of the church sign out the front.

https://www.facebook.com/anggos/photos_stream
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Australia sounds like the USA of the Eastern & Southern hemispheres.
 
We have become copycats of the USA.
We have long been copycats of Britain.
We're at our best when we think for ourselves.
 

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