Posted on 07/15/2014 4:02:11 AM PDT by markomalley
A new "N-word" -- "nativist" -- has made its way into the immigration debate.
Americans who want the influx of Central American children returned to their homes are "nativist" and "isolationist," says Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
"As the United States, as a world leader, we are very good about telling other countries that they must accept refugees from Syria or Ethiopia or Darfur, but when it comes to a humanitarian crisis on our own border -- involving children, no less -- you hear this nativist, isolationist voices saying that, oh, just ship them all back, send them all back," Sanchez told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Monday.
"And what's clear is that each one of these cases needs to be evaluated. They need to have due process."
The Central American children also need to be reunited with their parents who are in the United States illegally, Sanchez insisted:
"I might add that a big problem with why these children are coming too is because their parents have been here. And if we were able to pass comprehensive immigration reform -- something that a majority of Americans, regardless of political party, believe in -- that many of these children would qualify to be reunited with their parents, and their parents could come out of the shadows and get on a pathway toward citizenship."
Sanchez criticized Republicans for objecting to President Obama's $3.7 billion request to address the illegal immigration crisis on the Southwest border. Some of the money would be used to hire more immigration lawyers and judges.
"[C]hoking the funding to allow that process to go forward isn't going to expedite the removal of anybody," she said. "We need to fund the president's request to try to help process these children, find out who does qualify for refugee status or asylum and try to connect these children with their parents."
She said the current crisis has been "bubbling up for a long time." And now Republicans are "screaming with their hands up and their hair on fire that something needs to be done, while they continue to sit on their hands and do nothing. And it's unconscionable."
Sanchez said the only way to stop the flow of illegal aliens is for the United States to help stabilize the Central American countries from which the children are coming.
A recent New York Times editorial also used the word "nativist" to describe those who are protesting the illegal alien influx.
Send them back. You go with ‘em, Linda (and take your flake sister, too).
Send em ALL back and mine the border and put up a big damn fence with armed guards
The Voice of Reason who loves and seeks to preserve the American experiment says that Sanchez is a race-baiting, self-absorbed, Marxist nitwit.
Actually and factually Americans of all Nationality backgrounds, races and creeds are saying send them back. We know this is an invasion. We know this is a planned event. We know this is not really about children 12 or under looking for family etc.
Further we know that America welcomes immigrants tens of thousands every year and that America has a system in place ofr that immigration.
We know that our Government id either ignorant in their response to this crises or that they are part of the crises.
And there would be a lot of money left over that wouldn't have to be borrowed from the Chicoms.
They are not refugees, they are runaways. If a runaway minor from Maine is found in Texas we send him back to his parents. We should do the same for one from Honduras.
Count me in on that Native Isolationist Choir. I may be tone deaf but I’m enthusiastic!
We can tell how solid their argument is by how few seconds lapse before they start calling people who believe that a border should mean something names.
We should allow orderly immigration but we have every obligation to be selective. Above all we must not allow in people whose primary gift to the US will be to bring us new diseases, or who will be a burden on the public treasury. But that seems to be be one of the goals of the current Administration.
Recall that the same crew who dreamed up and then stonewalled Fast and Furious, dreamed this up. We just cannot wrap our minds around an American President who doesn’t care how many people die so he can advance his ideology. How many episodes that have a blood trail will it take before we finally recognize people and a whole political party who are evil?
Going home is good enough for Lebron James, why not them?
Add my voice to that chorus: SEND THEM ALL BACK!!
While she says “BRING MORE”.
Many LEGAL Hispanic immigrants are saying “Send them back.”
The (person) who owes her election to swarms of illegals illegally voting wants more illegals ?
Big surprise.
FOAD, Sanchez.
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