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.
these people are not citizens, deport them as fast as possible, and quit wasting money on them , you dumbass LIBTURDS.
THIS IS ALL BULL, THEY ARE NOT ENTITLED TO OUR RULES OR OUR CARE TAKING, FUNDS, SEND THEM HOME
Let the democrats pay for the lawyers not the tax payers.
Send them all back where they came from! No illegals are entitled or has a right to be here regardless if they have family members here! They broke the law coming here! Send them back!!
but I cannot get one and I have paid in my entire life .. go figure
I really hate it when our so called government appointed law makers that try to slide this stinking $#%&!@* under our noses. Lupe, My family are NATIVE AMERICANS, FULL BLOODED CHEROKEE. You want to know what really pisses me off is that in order for us to keep our heritage intact not only do we have to fill out mountains of paperwork to prove that we are NATIVE AMERICAN we have to have DNA testing to prove our heritage. My grandfather is a registered, card carrying Cherokee Indian and you know what my family got from the government, NOT A DAMN THING !!!! So all of the illegal immigrants from everywhere in the world that are here need to get the hell out of MY COUNTRY, All of the South Americans, Mexicans, Africans, Saudis, Iranians, Iraqians, India indians, Cubans, El Salvadorians, Guatemalans, and anyone else that doesn’t belong here. You bastards come here illegally, pay no taxes and expect the Unites States to take care of your sorry asses. I say bring our troops home line them up along the border from Florida to California 1/4 of a mile apart in guard shacks with all the ammo that they can carry and be given orders to shoot anything that comes across the Rio or the desert land and let the coyotes and the buzzards handle the clean up.
NOOO!!!
We need to patrol the Mexican border . . . DUH! These kids should all be sent back to Mexico.
Put them on buses and send them back where they came from! Bus trip back home better than how they got here!
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