A spokesman for President Barack Obama refused to answer questions about the president’s role in the rising wave of children and families rushing the southern border in the hope they can stay in the United States.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest declined to answer Monday when The Daily Caller asked if the president would speak publicly against the wave of immigrants.
One internal estimate says the inflow will rise to 90,000 by October, and to 230,000 by October 2015. That’s much higher than official estimates announced in early June.
“One thing we can do is to be as clear as possible about the law and about what the consequences are for making a decision like that,” Earnest said in response to another reporter’s question. “I think that’s what I and others try to do,” he said, immediately before he refused to say if the president will speak out against the mass migration.
Obama has higher priorities — including passage of a bill to increase immigration and to establish an amnesty for the illegal population of almost 12 million people.
On Monday, shortly before Earnest spoke, Obama met with six nurses in the Oval Office for 30 minutes to advocate for passage of an immigration-boosting law. ”We can bolster public health by providing immigrant nurses an opportunity to stay in the United States legally and grow their skills, while also attracting the best and brightest immigrants from around the globe to help meet the needs of our growing health care industry ,” he said, according to a White House statement summarizing the meeting.
Nurses’ salaries have stalled since 2010, and hospitals are making greater use of guest workers.
Earnest said the new illegal immigrants are not eligible for the president’s June 2012 regulatory amnesty, the “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” decision, which granted work permits to at least 520,000 young illegal immigrants who arrived before 2007.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/09/obama-hides-from-border-crisis/#ixzz34C5pFcZX
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