Posted on 05/29/2014 6:18:13 AM PDT by jimbo123
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Wednesday stressed his support for a legalization measure for young undocumented immigrants in the military, after he was criticized by advocates who see him as the main obstacle to immigration reform.
In an interview with POLITICO, Cantor said he backs the policy merits of the legislation from Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), which would give a path to legal permanent residency for immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children.
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And the chattering class is wondering why there is a surge of unaccompanied children crossing the border from Mexico.
OK...guess I have to ask.
HOW exactly are young, undocumented immigrants getting IN to our military?
I guess Repubs want to lose the mid-terms.
Yeah, Right! ...the Anti-Amnesty candidate.
How about enforcing existing laws and those who fail to do so also go to jail.
You can bet those kids were accompanied to the border
MORON!!!!!
Illegal alien children are jamming into our border. 120,000 are expected this year. They get here and are home free due to the MAGNET this idiot-traitor is setting up with Obama.
THEY ARE HOME FREE because they are not detained. They are sent to relatives and parents here who paid the cartel smugglers to bring them across
IOW we are incentivizing unaccompanied children and teens to come to our border. The drug cartels are smuggling them across
Crisis: ‘Unprecedented’ number of young illegal immigrants pouring over U.S. border
By Paul Bedard | May 27, 2014 | 1:50 pm
Unlike adult illegal immigrants, children crossing the border on their own are generally linked up with family members in the United States and helped through the immigration process, not sent home. Faith-based groups like 75-year-old LIRS help in the effort which the federal government budgets $1.5 billion for.
A city-sized rush of about 120,000 illegal immigrant children and teens from Latin America is expected to crash through the U.S. border this year, twice the administration’s prediction, leading humanitarians to seek much more than the $1.5 billion spent to handle the runaways.
U.S. authorities report that there was massive surge in May of children trying to escape crime, drug gangs and sexual exploitation in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, leading them to cast aside the administration’s prediction of 60,000, which was still more than twice the 24,000 apprehended last year.
“It’s a city of children,” said Annie Wilson, executive vice president for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), a national group that works with the government to settle child refugees and exiles.
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“It’s 100,000 kids on their feet walking out of their country,” she said, adding that the numbers are “unprecedented” and due more to avoiding threats back home than the lure of America.
“In desperation, people have chosen the impossible odds of fleeing over what seems like the certainty of death and fear,” added Rev. David Vasquez, a campus pastor for Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and an immigration advocate.
LIRS on Tuesday announced a new campaign, dubbed “#ActOfLove,” to win added funding. It also sent a petition to President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seeking emergency funds and better protections for the children.
“When disasters strike, the United States steps forward. This is just such a moment,” the letter said. “It’s a large-scale disaster that calls for an immediate and generous response.”
Unlike adult illegal immigrants, children crossing the border on their own are generally linked up with family members in the United States and helped through the immigration process, not sent home. Faith-based groups like 75-year-old LIRS help in the effort which the federal government budgets $1.5 billion for.
At a press conference to announce #ActOfLove, LIRS officials said that the current efforts by the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services are overwhelmed and need more money. They also cheered a proposal in Obama’s fiscal 2015 budget for an emergency contingency fund to help with illegal immigration surges.
A dope supporting dope. Nothing is new under the sun.
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