Exclusive: White House Forcing American Families To Adopt Illegals
Jason and Amy Baxter of Plano, Texas thought they were living the American dream. Jason owns a successful plumbing business, which has been in his family for three generations. Amy is a published author working on her third self-help book. Between them, they bring in approximately $97,000 per year, enough that they live comfortably with their two daughters, Martha and Ellen. But according to the Obama administration, their success needs to carry a price. On Wednesday, November 5th, the Baxter family was visited by twelve government agents belonging to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or âICE.â The ICE agents came bearing a federal warrant to search the premises, claiming they had reports that the Baxters were harboring illegal alien fugitives. After searching all the rooms of their home, and then rummaging through their personal belongings, ICE began questioning the family, including their youngest daughter, age five. But the questions had less to do with illegal immigration, and were allegedly focused entirely on asking the Baxters about their familyâs finances. And after a lengthy four hours of questioning, Special Agent Lt. Paul Horner of ICE told the Baxter family that on December 1st, theyâd be adopting one Miguel MagaÃ±a, an eleven year-old Belizean boy who has been living in an American holding facility in Texas since April of this year. âThey told us we `hadâ to adopt this boy. This kid weâve never met and never heard of,â says Amy Baxter. âThey said if we refuse, theyâll come to our home with a warrant to search the premises every week, and theyâll shut down my husbandâs business while searching the records of every one of his employees, and that would take months.â âThey said it was the `patriotic thing to do,â accepting this illegal alien into our home,â Jason Baxter added. âBut weâre not getting a say in any of this, not at all. This kid is getting forced on us, right during the holidays, and if I refuse, all of my employees are going to suffer. It just isnât right.â The Baxter family isnât alone, either. According to two anonymous sources within ICE, as many as 140 families in Texas, New Mexico, and Nevada have been forced by the federal agency to adopt a total of 267 illegal immigrant children, who snuck across the border without their parents. And this, those agents claim, is the Obama administrationâs solution to dealing with underage illegals. âWeâve been doing this for a few months now, and it comes straight down from the top,â one ICE agent claims. âItâs an executive order, signed by Obama. Heâs telling ICE that we need to assimilate these children into this country however we can, because we canât just send them home unaccompanied by adults, and we canât force them on State agencies without violating the tenth amendment.â The other agent explained how ICE picks the families. âWe search all sorts of records and profile these families on a case-by-case basis. They need to earn around $80,000 per year, per kid, and they need to budget well and be financially sound. They also need to clear stringent background checks, and theyÂ need to have kids of their own, in public schools, so we can see how their records look, too. We want these kids going into good homes.â The Baxter family has hired lawyers and hopes to thwart ICE from forcing the young boy on them. But that lawyer, Barbara Fitch, says the family is facing an uphill battle.Â âThis is a tricky case, because technically, the Obama administration and ICE officials arenât actually breaking any laws here,â says Fitch. âThe Third Amendment doesnât really apply here, because these arenât American citizens, and they arenât a military force. Thereâs nothing in the law, at the State or Federal level, that prohibits ICE from forcing a well-off American family into adopting an illegal with no legal guardian.â Any legal action the Baxters can take wonât come soon enough, though. âThis boy is coming here on December 1st. Weâre Christians. Itâs not like we can just turn this poor kid away at the door,â says Jason Baxter. âWeâll take him into our home and treat him like a proper guest, and raise him like we would our own. But weâre going to fight this, too. Just because weâre well-off and raise good kids doesnât mean we should have other peoplesâ kids forced on us. If this is Obamaâs America, I want know part of it.â