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.
THIS IS BS TOO !!!! GOES AGAINST VALUES < HELL YOUR STEADY DESTROYING OUR VALUES FOR THE AMERCIAN PEOPLE >BUT YOU WORRY ABOUT ILLEGALS WITH OUR VALUES , THIS IS JUST NOT RIGHT !!!
Where is the United Nations on this issue? These South American children are being abandoned and dumped by their parents! Isn’t that a crime? Make these kids go back to their homes! We have plenty of our own here that need food and shelter, etc…
Children should ALWAYS have representation. They are children after all!!
How did they get here in the first place. They are not American citizens and therefore don’t have the rights and privileges of an American citizen. Minor or not they ate here illegally. The Dems just don’t get it!!
They shouldn’t have brought them here then!
LET OBAMAS TAKE CARE OF THEM AND SEND THEM TO THE WHITE HOUSE
They are illegal which means they broke the law and they have no rights here, We did not send for them amd we promised them nothing so get their asses out of this country at obummers expense until he secures the border.
If they have a right to be here, then send them back and let them come in the front door the next time!
they are not american, our values do not apply….
send them back to their country. We don’t want or need them here. We will not support them, and neither should the government with our money.