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.
Due process and the Right to representation is an American value. And Im damn proud of that.
What about the fundamental values of OUR LAWS being obeyed in the first place…illegally crossing the borders to enter our country is against the law!!! We do not get FREE LAWYERS WHEN WE BREAK THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY and WE ARE AMERICANS SO WHY ARE THE ILLEGALS GETTING BETTER CARE THAN WE ARE OR OUR VETERANS WHO CAN’T GET IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AS THESE ILLEGALS ARE GETTING ALSO FREE HOUSING and FOOD ….*OUR* AMERICAN BORN FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN, HOMELESS PEOPLE don’t get all this attention or free housing,etc like these ILLEGALS are getting right now and now you are giving them FREE LAWYERS to represent CRIMINALS because that is what it comes down to…they broke the law and our government don’t care about that and are saying to the world that is ok for them to break our laws but let an American sneak across the border into their country and they go to JAIL or are SHOT!!! DBLE. STANDARDS!!
Send them back.
They are forcing us to fight
Can’t say mich, obama got to go if I say more may get arrestded for freedom of speech
Send them to there home country
Cheaper to send them back .
And WHO gonna pay the Lawyer ? US again…Why they don”t send back home, Problem solve period.
They are not Americans. So the statute does not apply.
Considering illegals, who have done nothing for this country, before considering Veterans, who have given much … and some all! What the hell is happening to this Country???!!!