Immigrant Children Flood Across U.S. Border

"Tens of thousands of children unaccompanied by parents or relatives are flooding across the southern U.S. border illegally," reports Reuters.

Now, Washington is trying to figure out how to pay for their food, housing and transportation once they are taken into custody.

The flow is expected to grow. The number of unaccompanied, undocumented immigrants who are under 18 will likely double in 2015 to nearly 130,000 and cost U.S. taxpayers $2 billion, up from $868 million this year, according to administration estimates.

The shortage of housing for these children, some as young as 3, has already become so acute that an emergency shelter at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, has been opened and can accommodate 1,000 of them, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in an interview with Reuters.

In a related editorial, Investor's Business Daily writes:

There are plenty of reasons for this migration wave — from the violence of the drug war in Central America to the leftist governments of the region, notably in El Salvador, that ensure low economic growth.

But there's a magnet effect coming from White House policymaking that's also pulling them north.
President Obama has talked up the DREAM Act of amnesty for young illegals and browbeaten Congress to pass it, using executive orders when it didn't. He's also let it be known he's not enforcing U.S. deportation laws.

Now we have a full-blown refugee crisis. They're convinced that amnesty is theirs if they just reach U.S. soil.