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.
What are they over here for anyway? Send them all back home! If democrats wants them to have lawyers then they need to personally pay for them not the taxpayers! Or let Obama pay for the lawyers it is his fault they are here in the first place! Time for the taxpayers to cut the purse strings for congress and Obama!
$#%&!@* you democrat retards
WE ARE GOING TO DO THE RIGHT POLITICAL THING, UNTIL WE GO BROKE, WE HAVE UNDERPRIVILIGED CHILDREN THAT ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS THAT ARE HUNGRY, HAVE NO LAWYER, AND DID NOT BREAK THE LAW TO GET HERE, THEY SHOULD COME FIRST, I AM ALL FOR PEOPLE COMING HERE FROM ABROAD “IF” THEY COME THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR “LEGALLY”, I WILL SAY WELCOME, BUT I DO NOT THINK THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN A FREE RIDE, THEY SHOULD WORK AND PAY TAXES LIKE REAL AMERICANS, ENOUGH SAID.
we are being invaded and the president is not doing his duty, impeach him.
What are the Democrats thinking! No money for our VETERANS, but money for the illegals?? Are they AMERICANS? I mean the ones that like to spend money for the illegals!
Ya, they should have a lawyer, to advise them all to plead guilty, because they are.
They came here without legal representation so send them back the same way. Tired of all this c**p being thrown at the citizens of this country.
Divide and conquer, that’s the plan of politicians they will soon have all the guns. We will soon enter another Dark Age for a thousand years.
send em all back
That’s not true they came to this country with out representation of parents are any adult relative . send them back to their parents that’s were they belong