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.
They were in more danger being sent up here than they did at their homes they were not emaciated or starving you could look at them and tell they were well taken care of kids BEFORE they sent them on that journey they have no right to stay here
We do not owe them a fkn thing. Repatriating them with their country of origin and relatives is the humanitarian thing to do. send them back and deduct the costs from those countries aid bundles. Done deal.
our house of rep can control the purse don’t do this while we have vets sick and pensions cut and some not buried this is outrageous Obama brought them here to do what ???? put us deeper indebt slaves for his muslims >?>>> brides for them????? this is sickening send them home to their families
Balogny!!!! Send them right back….They don’t need deportation proceedings.
DEPORT EVERY ILLEGAL
Why should they need representation when they are here illegally in the first place? Why does this give them special rights? The line has to be drawn somewhere!
Of course! It’s always about the lawyers!!!
We already have enough loafers and drains on society. And, we can;t pay for the whole world’s problems.. Just a sad fact of a corporeal world. Maybe someday it will change.. until then, sorry Amigos and amigas!!
I’m a mom with a disabled son…about to loose my house..I don’t see them running to help me. American born & raised!
What?!