Posted on 07/08/2014 6:58:49 AM PDT by PoloSec
With President Obama sending mixed signals on how he plans to handle the immigration crisis at the Texas border, some Democrats on Capitol Hill are having a hard time backing him up and others would like to avoid the question altogether.
When asked if Obama has done enough so far to address the crisis of tens of thousands of unattended children flooding into the country illegally in recent months, Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., demurred.
“I don't know everything he is doing so I wouldn't want to comment,” Pryor, who is facing one of the toughest re-election battles in the country, told the Washington Examiner.
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who doesn't face re-election for two more years and recently considered running for governor, had a tough time saying whether the Obama administration should have anticipated the border crisis.
“I can't answer that,” he said flatly. A few minutes later he clarified his response to say he couldn't answer because “I don't know.”
Others had an easier time, although they offered few specifics on the steps Obama should take and whether he has done enough to address the crisis so far.
Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., said he believes the administration has “responded very forcefully” but with comprehensive immigration reform stalled in Congress, Obama has a limited tool set.
“I think we need to give him more tools,” Heinrich said.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Obama has “embarked on some of the steps that have to be taken.”
“There is a lot more that needs to be done to provide for better security, care, due process and what really needs to happen is immigration reform,” he said.
Blumenthal told the Hartford Courant last week that he doesn't support deporting the tens of thousands of children apprehended crossing the border in Texas.
The comments come after Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, publicly criticized the Obama administration's policy on the influx of the undocumented minors as “one step behind.”
“They should have seen this a long time ago,” said Cuellar, whose district lies along the U.S.-Mexican border, told CNN's “State of the Union.”
Obama last week signaled to Congress that he would seek changes to an immigration law that would make it easier for the Homeland Security secretary to expedite the deportation of minors back to their home countries.
He was expected to make the request when he formally asks Congress on Tuesday for more than $2 billion in emergency spending to deal with the immigration crisis at the border.
Among Democrats, however, there is a dispute over whether the Obama will seek quick changes to the law to try to quell the border crisis or whether the White House will seek to work with key committees to rework the deportation law over time.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a key author of the law impacting the Central American immigrants, says it already provides the flexibility Obama needs to speed up the judicial process in times of crisis.
Nelson and Pryor need to spend more time watching TV News with Bammy....
Here’s a novel idea,enforce the existing laws.
Is this guy bought and paid for by the NYC elite who reside in CT? It used to be a good place to live when I was growing up....safe, a lot of wooded areas, and plenty of job opportunities. Now, except for some of its northern and western rural areas and a few rich towns immune from the masses, it's a cesspool.
If anyone in CT thinks an invasion from central america is a good thing, they're beyond saving. JMHO
Words are cheap... Democrats benefit from this type of lawlessness and that’s why it’s happening.
The press isn’t outraged either - again because it benefits Democrats.
It’s like the little golddigger charging up all her credit cards knowing her husband’s got cancer and insurance money will be rolling in soon.
Democrats are monsters.
They, Democrats - traditional backstabbing stubborn selfish politicians - should be scared sh!tless of this man and the abject evil he is perpetrating with these disease rat pawns of the third world.
What he is doing is rousing an anger in this country that will translate into direct enmity for Democrat incumbents in general, and a lot of them in particular.
Obama has nothing to fear about this. It’s all according to plan. Destroy the ability of this country to be free and sovereign and to take care of its problems. He’s got a little more than two years, and he will be moving with the speed of a dervish. He believes in that old anarchist credo - you have to tear it down before the country can be reshaped (in his image).
For nearly 5 years, Democrats and Obama walked the same path because the general direction is where Democrats wanted to go. In the direction of power. But that ‘power’ path he’s taking doesn’t quite line up with theirs. Obama’s power path is destruction and a demographic that doesn’t include fat rich white politicians who pander to ‘diversity’ as well as one of their own can.
Obama is creating a whole new class, a whole new army of conquerors - Reconquistas, who will soon figure out they don’t need that old coot Reid, nor that Pelosi, or any of those other old white plantation racists who aren’t latin heritaged. Why have a middleman when you can have one of your own.
They’d better be damned scared of what he’s doing. And, the RINOs that mutter those codewords about legalization, path-to-citizenship, normalization, and legitimization had better be equally scared. We’re not buying it any more.
It screws the country..........
BUTTT.....
It brings in more Dhimmocrats. TOUGH CHOICE!
To our dear senator Nelson....don’t even think about bringing any to Florida!
What I find especially interesting is that either the democrats with Obama in charge have absolutely NO IDEA what their party and policy is anymore because they are irrelevant, or they are sticking their heads in the sand and don’t want to know.
I’m a registered democrat and think Obama has done an absolutely terrible job at handling this border crisis.
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