The failure of the economies and societies to our south and the population overburden continue to drive high levels of desperate immigration numbers into the United States with the area from Laredo to Brownsville experiencing the heaviest burden along the nearly 2,000 mile Mexico-U.S. border. Among the many implications are things like moving the immigrants is a new profit center for the Mexican Cartels.

What neither Austin nor Washington perceive are the huge forces that drive the immigration and the hollow hope that “immigration reform” promises. Tens of thousands of these numbers are in Texas city after city including Austin and the rate is increasing. Municipal police and public schools face the growing burden most directly of all institutions. The Austin Police are our front line in this public safety challenge. The numbers from my book are estimates from official sources about 2010 to 2012. Real total numbers today are in the area of 170 million persons with job income and benefits of employment comparable to the United States of perhaps 20 percent in those countries. The hope of any job here, the availability of medical care, food, housing and importantly freedom from crime and violence resonates through the lands and fuels the desperate and dangerous trip north.

This is a pot simply boiling over. Nature has been kind to Austin the last two weeks with generous rainfall and made the risk of wildfires a lesser public safety issue for Austin. Implications from this immigration is the number one public safety challenge facing Austin. Flying people from the Valley to Tucson, per the article below, is symptomatic of the lack of preparation and understanding of our Federal government—simply an exercise of arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Here is a recent comment from a newspaper in McAllen that illustrates.

http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/immigrant-surge-in-mcallen-crowds-bus-station-in-tucson/article_821a8718-e6de-11e3-b616-0017a43b2370.html

TUCSON, Ariz. — The Department of Homeland Security dropped off some 140 immigrants — mostly women and children — at the Tucson Greyhound station this weekend, leaving them to find their own way to their destination cities across the country to report to immigration offices there.

While such releases are not new, the number left here at the same time has put a strain on local border advocates and has customs and bus line officials working on a plan to accommodate the unexpected influx of travelers.

ICE in Arizona is processing 400 people, mostly families coming from Central America and Mexico who were apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley and flown here over the weekend, officials said.

To meet the demand coming from Texas, the Border Patrol is turning to all available resources at its disposal, said Daniel Tirado, Border Patrol spokesman for the Rio Grande Valley sector……..

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More detail on child immigrants is contained in this article early in May from the New York Times that stated:

The flow of child migrants has been building since 2011, when 4,059 unaccompanied youths were apprehended by border agents. Last year more than 21,000 minors were caught, and Border Patrol officials had said they were expecting more than 60,000 this year. But that projection has already been exceeded.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/us-sets-up-crisis-shelter-as-children-flow-across-border-alone.html

I noted these broad demographic features of Mexico and Central America and the coming impacts on the border near the end of Mexico-Pat To A Failed State:

A. Collapse in progress

World recession deepens. Oil plays out in Mexico’s top producing fields, Mexico cedes control to private actors over the south and north of the country with 10 million refugees in Mexico from the countries to its south, and 20 million refugees from within Mexico head to the northern cities of Mexico and the United States. Millions will come to Texas alone. Mexico is beset with guerilla bands controlling much of the countryside and several of the larger low-income neighborhoods in Mexico City. Staged attacks on American border cities occur with regular frequency and local police in Mexico are overwhelmed facing cartels that are better organized, funded and equipped and abandon their posts. American border cities are overwhelmed with refugees and violent gangs. American military units are required to defend against armed intrusions from Mexico.