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.
NO LAWER JUST SEND THEM BACK
They charge citizens of whom are minors and sentence them as criminals every day.
Big Difference here, ‘Citizens’ are entitled trial not illegals. Illegals under letter of law possess Right to Deportation!
Send the bastard back to Mexico
They need to go back to their Countries. We can’t take care of them and why are they here in the first place?
$#%&!@*it allow illegal underage children to come to the us. Let them get education but make a mandatory of like 4-6 years in the military…sounds fair imo
Are they crazy? The key word here is ILLEGAL! Who’s going to pay for these lawyers? The taxpayers of this country, that’s who.
FAAAHK THEM
All we need..more lawyers, to really screw everything up. Just send them back ….It that too hard to understand?
This is why you must elect me king these illegal wood all be walking back to border they crossed to get here so in 2016 learn how to use the write in on the ballot I’m not running for president I’m running to be king
No