Hey, you GOP guys: You'd better listen up to Sarah Palin on this one

 There has been an unprecedented number of unaccompanied children coming over our southern border with Mexico.  According to an article on Huffington Post, roughly 48,000 have arrived since last Oct. 1, a 92% increase since the same time last year.

In trying to deal with the sheer numbers, the Homeland Security Department has been sending these young undocumented immigrants to a large warehouse holding facility in Nogales, Arizona.  At the present time there are 700 being housed there, and the number is expected to double.   As you can imagine in such a situation, conditions are not good for these children, many of whom are trying to reunite with their parents;   others are escaping from crime and poverty across Central America.

Sarah Palin lashed out at her fellow Republicans for failure to do something about the humanitarian crisis.   Writing on her Facebook, she threatened to "renounce" her "Republican ties."

"Finally, they have won me over. I actually agree with the liberals’ war whoop. . . .  I, too, demand that this issue of young illegal aliens flooding across our border into horrendous conditions be taken care of. Now! . . .


"As a Christian I find it unforgivable to ignore this issue of overrunning border security into these conditions in southern states, and this one issue is just about driving me to renounce my Republican ties because, see, even leaders on the RIGHT side of the aisle haven’t exerted all Constitutional power to stop the madness."

Not surprising that the plight of children would prompt a strong response from Palin.   What is surprising is her attack on fellow Republicans.   At least in the excerpt quoted in this article, she did NOT aim her attack at Democrats or President Obama.     Which seems fair, since they have been trying to get congress to deal with immigration reform, and it is clearly the Republican Speaker John Boehner who will not allow it to come up in the House.

Ralph 

NOTE:   The "not" in the last paragraph was added later.   I did not at first notice the omission.   I hope the context led people to read it that way anyway.