Posted on 07/16/2014 3:18:06 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Wednesday cited the Holocaust as he argued against a Republican push to deal with the influx of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border by amending a 2008 human trafficking law.
“Think of all those Jews that went to the ovens because we forgot our principles,” Leahy said. “Let’s not turn our backs now.”
Leahy said Congress can take action to deal with the surge of immigrants without "watering down our laws or turning our backs on our basic values as Americans.”
“We can either make good on our laws ... or we can say ‘gee whiz, we didn’t mean it.’ ”
Lawmakers are divided on how to help the thousands of unaccompanied children from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala that are being detained along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The White House has asked Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency supplemental funding to help temporarily house and feed the children, but Republicans have criticized the plan, saying it doesn’t do anything to stop the flow of immigrants.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has introduced legislation that would amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
The 2008 law allows authorities to send immigrant children from Mexico or Canada back to their home countries within 48 hours of a screening, but requires that children from Central America and other countries be granted an asylum hearing that can take weeks to set up.
Cornyn said the process has “overburdened” Border Patrol facilities.
“The conditions they are kept in are unacceptable by any standard,” Cornyn said. “Dozens of children are crammed into a cell with one toilet.”
He wants to amend the law to expedite the hearing process. Leahy said Cornyn’s bill would rush the children through a “superficial hearing” process.
Patrick Leahy Cites Holocaust Victims in Plea to Embrace Unaccompanied Minors - July 16, 2014 - “I also remind people of a time in the past around World War II where this country unwisely closed its borders to people who were fleeing the Holocaust in Germany,” Leahy said. “They came here, they were turned back, sent back, many of them to certain death in the death camps. That was a sorry part of our history.”Leahy criticized Republicans for using the crisis to “promote fear” and an “enforcement only agenda.”
He explained that the rush of minors crossing the border were immigrants seeking out American law enforcement officials for protection, not trying to avoid the law.
“If they see somebody in uniform, they run to them,” Leahy insisted. “They think finally they are escaping the gangs and the murderers and the rapists and they suddenly feel safe because they see an American in uniform.”
I think the Dems are deluding themselves. The immigration issue is big and getting bigger, and the voters are, for the most part, going to blame them. The Dems are going to get shellacked in November.
Hey, Leahy....ain’t no one goin’ to the gas chambers down there. They were paid to come here...whadda idiot...but then again, he’s RAT.
Damn demonrats. What the hell, do they think they are going to be immune from all this?
Look up Angel Resendez, aka the angel of death.
He was a serial killer from Mexico who murdered lots of American citizens from Texas to the Midwest.
And does the media think they will be immune as well?
Farm animal stupid that is.
I think the Dems are deluding themselves. The immigration issue is big and getting bigger, and the voters are, for the most part, going to blame them. The Dems are going to get shellacked in November.
The Dems are acting like they will never lose an election again.
bkmk
Were any of these illegals headed for the ovens?
Gezzzzzzzz.... How about all the illegals being transported up to his state? They can stay there for processing and then be furnished living quarters up there. That would shut him up and likely get him removed from office.
Left wing logic at work:
Hitler killed six million Jews, therefore the United States should have no border with Mexico.
I see.
Leahy is a senile old socialist. Time for dirt nap.
“We can either make good on our laws ... or we can say ‘gee whiz, we didn’t mean it.’ >>>>>>>>>>>>
The law requires the that they be kept out of the country and then likely deported after a hearing, but for a few exceptions with the burden of proof on the illegal alien.
Obama traduced THE LAW which Leaky Leahy so vociferously espouses.In fact Leahy is lauding Obamas unconstitutional executive order, not the law. Leahy’s very support of Obama’s unconstitutional executive order, which allows unconstitutional alien access to America and its due process citizen rights, results in the very system of fascism, here liberal fascism, which caused the Holocaust.
This is the usual leftist tactic of calling the political opposition , Democrats, Republicans and conservatives who support the constitution, the very thing that the left indeed are, fascists.
Leahy and his ilk are treasonous offal,the very definition of politicians who have long ago outlived their representative ability , thereby traducing the people and the Constitution repeatedly. Leaky Leahy should swing for his treasonous commentary, and his former treasonous leaking from the Senate Intelligence Committee which put US servicemen in mortal danger. Leahy is a treasonous pus ball.
No this is a Hispanic “Living Space” campaign
“Think of all those Jews that went to the ovens because we forgot our principles,” Leahy said. “Let’s not turn our backs now.””
And it wouldn’t have happened if a Republican was President. Roosevelt had 6 years to do something before Pearl Harbor forced his hand. Like the rest of the anti-Semitic rats, the coward was perfectly content on letting the world blow up and millions get slaughtered.
Wouldn’t suprise me if the only reason Obama is letting the world to to $hit is so he can pull a Roosevelt.
Democrats need to be squashed like the bugs that they are!
What is this ignorant bigot and demagogue talking about? The US, along with other nations, did turn away the SS St. Louis in 1939, a ship which carried 900 Jews seeking a refuge.
So does Leahy think that makes the US responsible for the death of six million Jews? He's a fool if he's saying that, but just as likely he's being a demagogue and liar as comes so naturally to most prominent Dims.
These Dims are shameless with their lies and misrepresentations.
FeaR not my FRiend, there’s still 4 months for the Rinocrats to figure out a way to lose
And who was President when the Jews were turned away? Who interred the Japanese? And they call Republicans racists.
Sonetimes I just think I've seen enough already . . .
No they don't: KISS MY ASS Leahey
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