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.
How about ONE lawyer for ALL the illegals. That’s right, ONE! IF THAT MANY!
sooner spend the money on a one way bridge back to mexico and make them cross…
I propose deport them all and Obama with them
NO RIGHTS TO ANY ILLEGALS AT ALL AND IF ANY OF THEM TRY TO GET HIS thorugh even temp. they are traitors and are to be hung for their treason and its at the very wilfull level now and it has to stop cause the majority of WE THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN YELLING AT THEM NO and they are NOT doing their job or oath or constitutional DUTY.
This is a bunch of liberal minded bull!
Democrats: traitors to the United States, the Constitution, and to the American people.
The Constitution was written to guarantee rights for American citizens, not illegal immigrants regardless of age.
This is a joke right? Let the democrats pay for these so called attorneys. What idiots they are.
Really we let our Vets go untreated and unfed but for foreigners that haven’t shed one drop of blood for America we are providing lawyers??? How messed up is this????
Let me guess!!! We the tax payers will pay for all this !! Only in the good old USA !! God help us !! Oops not suppose to use his name !