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.
$#%&!@* that send them back whwre they came from every single one of them men woman and children if you cant come here the legal way we dont want you
Democrats are leading us into the deep cesspool
No more
Fly them back to the countries they come from
no they do not; maybe under the law of the democrats’ ship the iilegals out and send the democrats with them
What part of ‘lllegal’ don’t Dumbocrats like Dumbama get!?
Take care of the veterans first. Getting all these children lawyers is just another Democrat scam, to promote the trial lawyers.
Sure would have been nice if our men in Benghazi would have had rights. An American right to have no soldier left behind. Our conservative and Tea Party groups that were targeted by the IRS, should have had American rights to an attorney. They had a right to not be harassed. The citizens of this country have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We have a right to privacy in our homes and on our telephones. The journalist have a right to publish the truth and not what they are told to. They have a right to privacy with their sources. We have a right to choose our own health insurance. Most importantly, we have a right to leadership that leads. Representatives that represent. We have a right to be led and represented by men and women who are not corrupt. Only after our American rights are met, does anyone who came here illegally, have a right to anything!
Democrats know that vets will not vote for them, and with good reason. Beware of November.
send them home there here ellegally to begin with no dam amnesty there not our problem period fix america first we can’t be responsible for everybody