WHAT CRISIS? TONY "WHAT ME WORRY?" MARTINEZ

By Juan Montoya
On June 29, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi visited a Border Patrol facility in Brownsville that held unaccompanied children. Since last October, more than 65,000 unaccompanied children, most from Central America, have been apprehended entering the U.S. illegally.

Not only did Pelosi make the trek to the border, so did Texas Senators Ted Cruz, Sen. John Cornyn, and even U.S. Rep.Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo.

Back then, the exodus of unaccompanied minors and women was in full swing. National and international media flocked to the border. Their photos of young children walking through the brush along the Rio Grande were carried throughout the world.

Yet - with the eyes of the world on little old' Browntown - there was neither hide nor hair of our illustrious City of Brownsville Mayor Tony Martinez.

In fact, just about the only major political figure besides President Barack Obama was Martinez.

Now, again, almost a month later, Martinez has emerged from his self-imposed public exile with the help of the Brownsville Herald give us the news that on July 17 - almost two weeks ago - he appeared to appear in a round table discussion to belie the fact of the thousands of undocumented Central American immigrants to by claiming that, sorry senores, no crisis.

And he told this to noNE other than Pelosi herself who saw the thousands of children piled up wall to wall sleeping on blankets on the floor.

We guess that Martinez wanted to wait until things had cooled off before using City of Brownsville public funds to travel and spend some quality time with national Democrats to tell them that what they and the Republicans saw was all an illusion. 

Martinez said he and other local officials, including Cameron County Commissioner David A. Garza, attempted to explain to Pelosi and other lawmakers during a round table discussion on Capitol Hill July 17 that the situation along the border isn’t posing a security concern for the region.
"Ya no me ayudes, Tony," Obama is probably thinking.
Martinez is making his claims that no crisis exists during the same time that President Obama is asking for $3.7 billion to pay for processing and handling the refugee overflow.
The Democrat-led Senate is considering a package closer to $2.7 billion.

Cornyn and Cuellar filed legislation that would eliminate an exemption within that law that stipulates that apprehended unaccompanied children from non-continuous countries be sent to live with family to await an immigration hearing.
Whether the funding or the legislation will be considered previous to the summer recess has yet to be seen. But rest assured that once the dust has cleared and there are no risks involved, Da Mayor will emerge from his favorite hiding place, travel somewhere meaningless, and then come and have the newspaper publish a favorable report two weeks later.