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Sen. Cruz: We Must Put a Stop to President Obama’s Amnesty and Give Governors All Options Possible
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| July 24, 2014
| Ted Cruz
Posted on 07/27/2014 8:49:13 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Full Title: Sen. Cruz: We Must Put a Stop to President Obamas Amnesty and Give Governors All Options Possible to Mitigate This Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today introduced the Protect Children and Families Through the Rule of Law Act, which includes measures that would stop President Obama’s amnesty, reform the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and empower governors to utilize the National Guard to address this specific crisis at federal expense, including authority to arrest violators of federal immigration, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and terrorism laws.
“The current situation in the Rio Grande Valley is a humanitarian crisis of this Administration’s making. President Obama set the stage for this crisis by refusing to live up to his most basic responsibility to secure our border, imposing huge human and financial costs on border communities and on immigrants who come here illegally,” Sen. Cruz said. “He has also sent a message to the world that the United States is not serious about enforcing its immigration laws by lawlessly granting amnesty through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program. To solve this problem, we must put a stop to President Obama’s amnesty and give governors all options possible to mitigate this crisis in light of the federal government’s inaction.”
Sen. Cruz’s bill would specifically:
- Prevent the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) by preventing any taxpayer funds from being used to consider or adjudicate any new or previously denied application under DACA or a similar successor program.
- The facts demonstrate that DACA is a significant motivating factor for the number of Central American children being handed over to violent criminals and taking the dangerous journey to enter the United States illegally.
- Yet, President Obama has announced his intention to expand DACA and grant amnesty to even more immigrants who entered the country illegally. In recent months, he has asked DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder to provide him with justifications for more executive actions, and he has promised pro-illegal immigration groups that he will expand DACA to cover 5 to 6 million more immigrants who entered the country illegally.
- Reform the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act so that unaccompanied minors can be expeditiously united with their families back home.
- Under current law, unaccompanied minors are being released to purported relatives with just a promise to appear later for deportation proceedings. Often they do not appear and, if they do, the removal proceedings can delay reunion to their family back home by years.
- This bill would protect the safety of these children and ensure their attendance at a new, expedited hearing within seven days of the child’s processing. This expedited process is designed to protect against human trafficking, preserve due process for those who have a legitimate claim to asylum or other relief, and facilitate expeditious return of those children who are ineligible to stay to their families in the country of origin.
- Take steps to ensure that State and local officials have the resources necessary to protect the people in their communities, enabling them to act on their own to secure the border.
- This bill would empower governors to utilize the National Guard at federal expense to address the current deluge of unaccompanied minors until the number of such arrivals return to pre-crisis levels.
- It would also provide the National Guard with authority to arrest violators of federal immigration, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and terrorism laws.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; tedcruz
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To: SoConPubbie; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
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posted on
07/27/2014 8:49:43 AM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
Thank you Ted for fighting for the 10th amendment!
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posted on
07/27/2014 8:50:54 AM PDT
by
mylife
To: SoConPubbie
“...authority to arrest violators of federal immigration,”
Arrest law breakers? Who does he think he is?!
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posted on
07/27/2014 8:52:55 AM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
(If Obama hated America and wanted to destroy her, what would he do differently?)
To: SoConPubbie
Senator Cruz is right. The states MUST be allowed to do the jobs the Feds don’t want to do.
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posted on
07/27/2014 8:57:08 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
To: SoConPubbie
Why is this man not the front runner for the Republican party?
Oh, sorry, forgot about the “Establishment”....
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posted on
07/27/2014 9:02:50 AM PDT
by
logic101.net
(How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
To: logic101.net
The GOPe hates Cruz more than Obama, I am not kidding. They are part of the Government party and Cruz is not, so they won’t sit next to him in the Senate cafeteria like spoiled little 5th graders. Screw them.
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posted on
07/27/2014 9:16:32 AM PDT
by
Lets Roll NOW
(A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
To: FlingWingFlyer
“The states MUST be allowed to do the jobs the Feds dont want to do.”
If you really want someone that can get the feds
of their buts then simply stop responding to or investigating
bank robbery. If it’s a federal crime to rob a bank then
let the feds deal with it. Being as the banks are who the
real bosses are. They decide the fate of America. They are
the puppet masters and it really doesn’t matter what ideology
rules, they still will control it.
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posted on
07/27/2014 9:26:41 AM PDT
by
Slambat
To: FlingWingFlyer
Senator Cruz is right. The states MUST be allowed to do the jobs the Feds dont want to do.Lets hope so, and from here in California conservatives will just have to settle for watching other states do what they need to to save themselves.
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posted on
07/27/2014 9:34:17 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: logic101.net
Why is this man not the front runner for the Republican party? I honestly feel when the time comes, that the disgruntled Republicans will vote in DROVES for Ted Cruz or Trey Gowdy, IF he puts his name in the ring!
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posted on
07/27/2014 9:40:08 AM PDT
by
pollywog
( " O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
To: SoConPubbie
STOP Georges Soros from buying any more Radio ADs in Central America,,,,,
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posted on
07/27/2014 9:47:20 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
To: mylife
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posted on
07/27/2014 10:32:26 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
To: FlingWingFlyer
“The states MUST be allowed to do the jobs the Feds dont want to do.”
The Governors MUST assume the power from the “do nothing” Federal Government on immigration.
You may note it’s the same strategy Obama invokes to take executive branch power not provided to him by the constitution.
To: SoConPubbie
If he can't get Obama to do his job. He can always go with the private sector route.
By increasing more criminal measures against businesses who hire and support illegal aliens. That would be a start. Sure Cruz might get some blow back, but in general the GOP right now can create more criminal measures against illegal aliens.
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posted on
07/27/2014 11:12:22 AM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: RFEngineer
You may note its the same strategy Obama invokes to take executive branch power not provided to him by the constitution. Good point. The governors need to play the game the same way Obama is playing it. The "do nothing" Feds are refusing to do the job the taxpayers are paying them to do. The governors need to seal the borders themselves and start deporting the illegal alien invaders.
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posted on
07/27/2014 11:30:34 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
To: SoConPubbie
Cruz is dead on. The Federal Government has betrayed the States, and has abandoned its Constitutional duty to safeguard our borders. It is bringing in any number of people into the States who are diseased or are hardened criminals, putting the safety and health at risk of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousand of our citizens. The States don’t know who is being dumped, and can’t adequately prepare to target the criminals or budget for disease outbreaks. Regardless of political party, all State Governors need to put aside party loyalty, and put loyalty to country first, and force the Federal Government to cease and desist. (I know, I know, fat chance that the Democrat Governors will give a hoot about the country.)
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posted on
07/27/2014 12:27:55 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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