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.
Aren’t all you $#%&!@*s Lawyers, Go represent them!!
Manure. Gather ’em up by the truckload, & take ’em back across & DUMP ’em. And remember, come the Nov. Elections, this was the DEMOCRATS’ idea…
talk that money and send them home….we should not have to bear this cost period! OBAMA will do anything to bankrupt the country….why should we pay for this. time to stop paying taxes for this kind of representation.
NO WAY OUR VETS COME FIRST. I DON’T CARE ABOUT THESE KIDS OF PRESIDENT LIAR THE KILLER OBAMA’S SCEME “PROJECT OVER THE WALL”. LET HIM PAY TO TAK CARE OF THEM. WE IN AMERICA DON’T WANT THEM HERE EATING OUR FOOD GETTING MEDICA ATTENTION OR SHELTER SCHOOLING NOTHING SEND THEM BAC ON PRESIDENT LIAR THE KILLERS MONEY AFTER ALL THIS WAS ALL HIS IDEA.
They are not Americans and are not entitled to rights that Americans have – they are illegal – understand
THEIR NOT AMERICANS THEY ARE INVADER ON OUR SOIL
George Vaughan:0bama’s plan= financial strain= chaos.
The GET a hearing BECAUSE they are allowed to cross the border. WHY? Because the court says so. SO, why are we LETTING them cross the border?
Send them back to their parents and Obama can pay for all the plane tickets out of pocket!!!!
GET REAL PEOPLE ! INSTEAD OF GETTING THEM LAWYERS JUST PUT THEM ALL ON A BUS AND SEND THEM BACK ACROSS THE $#%&!@*ING BOARDER !