A proposal from the Obama Administration to house unaccompanied minor illegal immigrants on Texas military bases has sparked an outcry from Republicans, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

  More than 10,000 unaccompanied minor children have streamed into the United States over the Mexican border since October 1, the result of unchecked corruption and gang violence in their Central American homelands, and an effort by Mexican drug cartels to diversify into the very lucrative migrant smuggling business.

  The Department of Health and Human Service's Office of Refugee Relocation is required to take control of unaccompanied children within 72 hours after they enter the U.S., and currently their resources are becoming stretched.

  With most of the shelters in the Rio Grande Valley full up, about 1,000 children were transferred this week to two church summer camps in North Texas.

  But U.S. Rep Roger Williams (R-Weatherford), whose district includes a portion of Ft. Hood, tells News Radio 1200 WOAI the President's proposal is outrageous, and shows his contempt for the U.S. military.

  "It is just another example of this President not understanding the role of our military," Williams said.  "We are at war, and to bring these children onto our military bases is a huge distraction."

  During the first surge in illegal immigration of unaccompanied minors from Central America, in the summer of 2014, BCFS Health and Human Services, a church based child welfare organization, opened shelters for minor children in barracks at Lackland Air Force Base under contract from the O.R.R.

  Williams says this proposal flies in the face of the reason military bases exist.

  "Ft. Hood is the largest military base in the country, we are training the best and brightest young men and women to fight for freedom and liberty, and we do not need a diversion at Ft. Hood.  This is a military base, it is not a day care center."

  Migrant smuggling gangs scam the children's families into paying between $3,000 and $8,000, usually borrowed from the cartels, to get their children into the U.S. on the claim that if they arrive, they will be given a 'permiso,' a non existent document which will allow the child to remain in the country and allow his or her family to join them. 

  The smugglers take the children through Mexico and dump them at the U.S. border.  Along the way, it is not unusual for the children to suffer physical and sexual violence, robbery, and rape at the hands of the smugglers.

  By the way, the cost of a one way plane ticket from Tegucigalpa to San Antonio is $1,087.