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.
Seems to me that these lawyers are trading the ‘moving violations’, etc. to this and knowing that they would be paid by us taxpayers
let em walk back
What part of “illegal” don’t the liberals understand? It’s illegal, against the law. not right. The government can ship them all over the country, but can’t ship them 20 miles to the border they just crossed “illegally”.
BIG BS! Screw ’em they don’t deserve a damn thing!
WTF!!! Why in the hell do those MF’ ers in D.C. think that we owe something to these F—King people? I’m sick of hearing all the bull$#%&!@* they keep spewing. Maybe all of us that pays taxes should stop and lets see how they support them.
Dump them back in mexico we don’t want them here or shot them
AND PEOPLE ACTUALY THINK DEMOCRATS ARE NOT STPID
I KNOW, I MISSED MY ”U”
We can’t even handle what we have and these stupid dumbocrouts are sticking their nose in.
Why aren’t the governments of the other countries at least trying to better their situations in their own lands? This goes for the Muslim countries, African countries, Latin countries and all others. This way, if they act more civilized and, with good changes, they will have prosperity and stability so that people don’t have to cross borders besides which, our country, under this current leadership, is in shambles and a sad sop indeed. Let the UN talk about each others particular problems and, with empathy and generosity, help rebuild and put into place civility using humanitarian actions instead of religious vengeance, violence and intolerance. Once a country is stable financially and morally (ethically too), it becomes a place where one can be proud to be born in and thrive in; not so much wanting or needing to leave to gain freedom or jobs.