Democrats announced legislation on Monday that would provide lawyers for the thousands of undocumented minors – 52,000 and counting – stating that forcing minors to face deportation proceedings without representation goes against fundamental American values.
Providing adequate services for our veterans before those that illegally cross our borders was not mentioned as an American value.
Democrats state that upwards of 40 to 50 percent of illegals have legitimate claims to remain in the US under current law.
They also said their bill could save some $2 billion a year because timely immigration proceedings would eliminate the need to house thousands of children for months at a time.
From October to June 15, 52,000 unaccompanied children arrived on the U.S. border with Mexico, according to the Obama administration. Most are fleeing gang and drug violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
A similar provision to provide legal counsel for children and mentally impaired immigrants was included in a comprehensive immigration bill that passed the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate last year. But the measure has stalled in the House, where Republicans hold a majority of seats.
There was no immediate indication that the new bill would make any more progress, given deep partisan divisions on the immigration issue in the United States.
Many Republicans blame the influx of undocumented children on Democratic President Barack Obama’s 2012 decision to give temporary relief from deportation to some young people brought illegally to the United States by their parents.
“(These parents) have been led to believe that all their child has to do is get to America and they will receive amnesty,” Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz said on Monday after touring a facility at Lackland Air Force Base to house unaccompanied minors, exposing children to “unspeakable horrors” as they travel through Mexico to the United States.
“The way to act to prevent that is to enforce our laws and stop engaging in the lawlessness that has so characterized the Obama administration,” Cruz said.
The White House announced a plan on Friday to address the growing crisis that focused on expanding the government’s ability to process and deport the children, with new funding to boost security in their home countries.
Democrats at the news conference on Monday said they considered Obama’s plan just a first step.
I suggest that the politicians who are allowing this pay for their every need.
no send them back home now !!! $#%&!@* those lawyers
They don’t have any rights they aren’t Americans
make sure the Democrats pay for it
How much is this going to cost us. No disrespect
Then let the Dems foot the bill, they’ve robbed us blind so they should have plenty!!
You people know dam well the price will be coming out of our pocket. The only ince the gov. Has is taxes
Defund them , Don’t give them any money . Send them back and if the DEmocrats want to give them lawyers , they can use their own money. No money from the U.S.A. funds
its easy for them to set on there asses and take and take and take from us and american people are without jobs vets without healthcare, the country is going to hell and they hand over our money like its nothing when we are so far indept we probably won’t ever get out, there is no end to there bs
No money for illegals send them back take them to the border and put them back over the fence