House task force to recommend National Guard on border, faster deportations

The Washington Times ^ | July 23, 2014 | S.A. Miller

[2ndDivisionVet]

House Republicans will call Wednesday for decisive action to end the border crisis, proposing a deployment of National Guard troops and accelerated deportation hearings for unaccompanied children inundating the U.S., said a Capitol Hill aide familiar with the plan.

The proposals from a task force will aim to fix the most urgent problems quickly, “stemming the flow of [unaccompanied alien children] and securing the border right now,” the Republican aide said. “This is about solutions right now.”

Several of the recommendations focus on expediting the immigration hearing process for the unaccompanied alien children. Otherwise, most of them could stay in the U.S. for months or years before facing immigration judges, if they show up for their hearings.

“Having this [immigration hearing] process take one to five years is unacceptable,” said the aide, adding that the proposed measures would shorten the process to “within a week.”

The plans call for sheltering the children and conducting immigration hearings closer to where they are apprehended near the border in Texas and Arizona. More facilities would be set up and more hearing judges would be sent to the border region....

[Logical me]

Unless the Guard is placed at the border and armed it will do nothing. Mexican cartels will just ignore this. Why is it we are the joke of the world. Easy to understand. Other Countries arm their border guards with real heavy handheld weapons.

[Pollster1]

How about a tent city on the border - concertina wire and multiple fences surrounding it so the illegals don’t disappear - with quick hearings before deporting 99% or more of those criminals? Also, we should fingerprint and DNA swab all illegals and permanently deny them any path to legal entry or to citizenship.

[Ray76]

Protect the border means shoot those who attempt to enter at other than an official port of entry facility. Illegal entry, for those that survive, results in summary deportation.