People are being told to use "key words" to cross border

[Dave]

Another bit of idiocy... your a Mexican citizen and you want to cross the border, simply go to the border station, tell them you have a credible fear of the drug cartels and the border agents have to let you in. They will set you up in a hotel room, unless of course they are out of room because of all the other people trying to cross. All you have to do is show up for a court hearing so a judge can hear your case...... although it seems that no one shows up.... I mean why would ya? Got this great way of getting in without walking through a desert.. might as well take advantage right?

SAN DIEGO -A loophole is allowing hundreds of immigrants across the Mexico border in to the United States.

Immigrants are being taught to use "key words and phrases" to be allowed to enter and stay in the country.

Just this past Monday, Border Patrol agents say about 200 people came through the Otay Crossing claiming a quote: "credible fear" of the drug cartels.

So many were doing this that they had to close down the processing center and move the overflow by vans to another station.

"They are being told if they come across the border, when they come up to the border and they say certain words, they  will be allowed into the country," said a person who did not want to be identified on camera.  "We are being overwhelmed."

Pete Nunez, former U.S. Attorney and immigration expert says, "This will swamp the system."

"To make our system even more ridiculous than it has been in the  past," he adds.  "There are no detention facilities for families, so the family would have to be split up. We don't want to split families up, so we end up releasing people out into the community on bond, on bail."

Nunez says, "It's a huge loophole."

"There has to be a policy change, something implemented, an emergency implementation that will stop this, or otherwise we will have thousands coming in."

Immigrants are telling the Port Enforcement Team -- or P.E.T. -- that the cartels are ripping apart their state.

There's no word on whether this same loophole is being used in Arizona.

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/23101374/2013/08/10/loophole-peop...

[Willy]

This should be an easy fix so we'll see how Obama's people respond. I bet this will be used to bolster support for "immigration reform". As a Country we are a bunch of idiots run by idiots.

[XLFD]

Are Detroiters doing the same thing at the Windsor crossing?

[masonco]

You would be surprised how many cross at the Windsor crossing for medical care they cannot wait for in Canada if they wish to live. So maybe the buzzword there is "medical consult" but they do go back at the end of the day. Also there are a lot of people crossing the border in Sault St Marie who work healthcare in MI so that is interesting to me.

[easymoney]

I ran Canada everyday for 10 years, and I can't count how many times I read In The Toronto Sun, of people dying in ambulances, because the first or second facility the brought them to didn't have the doc. or staff to treat them.

As for medical staff, nurses, working in the states, there are hundreds who come over and back every day, on work visa's. It pays better here than in Canada, and, there is a shortage of nursing staff available in the US