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.
pack ’em up and send ’em home………
Child abuse of the worst kind
NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS!
This goes against the fundamentals of my pocket book…
On the tax payers dime when we have kids here-u.s. citizens who are starving. You have to be a u.s. citizen for it to apply. The abuse of the u.s.’s generosity and the mentality that we’re all rich and will take care of the whole world, so the other countries do’t have to address their own issues themselves has lead to this. Then Mexico and others complain about our immigration, when in fat theirs are alot stricter. If, you continue to abuse generosity and our laws this country will say enough is enough and not to mention the abuses of generosity, the Constitution, et al will lead to a broken country and NO freedom anyway and NOwhere to flee to. Once America and the Constitution is gone there is NO freedom ONLY oppression, slavery, and misery–“no huddled masses yearning to be free, tired, or poor.” -Statue of Liberty, to flee to or live.
they will have the tax payers pay for it
This is utter bs! They are minors! They have no rights!
Parents allowing their kids to travel to foreign countries without a passport is cause for charging the parents with child abandonment, right??
How about some honest, decent representation for Americans and their best interests for a change?
Send them to the State of Mississippi and tell them they are Choctawish, so they can get federal recognition as a tribe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Spanish_Fort_(Pascagoula,_Mississippi)