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.
send them back home
the dems are getting worst every day when I think of the lost jobs here that are taken over by the aliens because they will work cheap and all the money our tax money taking care of these children itmakes me sick somebody do something please
SEND CHILDREN BACK HOME. NOT our responsibility. 0bama’s plan to cause CHAOS.
VALUES ARE,,,,THESE SOB;ES SHOULDNT BE HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE,,,,IF THE FU,KING GOVT..WAS DOING THERE JOB…
The Obama administration goes to Mexico and central America and instigates an illegal scheme that motivates thousands of minor children, some with extensive criminal backgrounds and others with highly communicable diseases, to invade this country, The Obama administration, using American tax dollars arranged transportation and food to assist these minors in their journey. Now the democratic/socialist party, that supports every one of Obama’s Illegal acts, wants to use millions more, American tax dollars to supply lawyers to represent this invading army of minors. yet they would not spend one penny to get legal council for an American Marine, being held and abused in a Mexican prison.
The answer to this is to IMPEACH OBAMA ASSP
Obama’s plan to ruin America!!!!!!!! They are illegal and do not deserve anything but a one way ticket home!
Trade lawyers for immigrants – sounds like a good trade.
Send them home!!!!! Take care of our children and our vets first, these kids have no legal rights to tax payer funded lawyers!!!!!
if they would send all of he illegal immigrants back our country would not have the financial strain on it that it does at this moment