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.
Has anybody ask the children what they want! I think drug cartels stood them from there homes by force! Sold them to democratic operatives for political reasons! 1. How did US know in advanced to expect them in such large numbers
2. How did they get passage through Mexico’s border (one of the strictest in the Americas)
Who ran and paid for the ads?
This is modern day slave trading!
What makes dems so stupid? They arranged for those children to be here.
i was just wondering that a while back how can parents leave their children leave their homes to a place that they dont know what is going to happen to them—were the kids forced from the homes or has bad as it is in Mexico were the parents paid?????????????—food for thought
show me that law you are talking about i want to read it for myself, as far as i know anyone who comes to the US illegally whether it be a child or an adult or teenager is breaking the law—-show me the law
They should make all democratic politicians donate $5000 dollars from their own money to help all these future democrats they want to help!!!!
Its a shame. Many of the “lawyers” have NO interest in the law only how good they look or ho much money they can make by twisting words to confuse jury’s. Trey Gowdy should be the judge and the “lawyers” that lose should be disbarred. Let see how many of these do gooders will volunteer.
No… Send them back
Letting them into this country illegally goes against fundamental American values!
$#%&!@* that
Send em to tje white house lawn