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.
Sounds like they don’t know the position of illegals and the provision for removal of illegals. That is the law, removal from this Country.
JUST SEND THEM HOME
And not to mention the vets healthcare over the illegLS IS bULL$#%&!@*!!!! tHE dEMOCRATS STILL DON’T WANT TO HELP THE VETS!!!! sHAMEFUL, SEND THE ILLEGALS BACK, I MEAN WHERE IN THE HELL DOES IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!
Then you millionaire Democrats pay to take care of them
These people were brought to the border to take the heat off all the investigations and to be used later as good demorat voters.
No they don’t and all in congress that think they do need to be deported too!
Never, why should America pay for a lawyer for someone breaking our laws sneaking in to our country, Demosraps are Freeking demented
LIBERALS ARE CERTIFIABLY NUTS!!! And, more importantly, UN-AMERICAN!!
Which Democrat is gonna take the money out of his own pocket to pay for these lawyers???? Oh that is right, Us taxpayers will have to pay for them
illegals have no rights here and the communist democrats need to stop supporting criminals they are only doing this for political gain they don’t give a dam about the american peoples rights