Where is your compassion? /sarc
Posted on 07/14/2005 5:36:37 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
Sen. Cornyn responds to area immigration worries
It didn't take long for Sen. John Cornyn to deliver to Congress the plea for help he heard last week from four Victoria-area sheriffs.
On July 7, the senator from San Antonio, at the invitation of Victoria County Sheriff T. Michael O'Connor, met in Victoria with O'Connor, Goliad County Sheriff Robert De La Garza, Refugio County Sheriff Earl Petropoulas, Bee County Sheriff Carlos Carrizales Jr. and others for a roundtable discussion on the problem of illegal immigrants.
The sheriffs asked for Cornyn's help in securing federal dollars to help them deal with the flood of illegal immigrants pouring through the area.
The senator pledged that he would try to help.
On the Senate floor Wednesday, Cornyn, chairman of the Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship subcommittee, referred to his trip to Victoria last week - and asked for the Senate to help the sheriffs.
"Last week, I visited with a group of sheriffs in Victoria. They are about 200 miles inland," Cornyn told his congressional colleagues. "It was about two years ago when 19 immigrants, who had been smuggled illegally into the country, were left to die in a trailer because the human smuggler - a coyote, as they are called in our part of the country - cared nothing about them and left them to die in over 100-degree temperatures inside a cattle trailer."
Cornyn told the Senate that the Victoria-area law enforcement officials "are willing to help and willing to be of assistance, but they want the training and they need additional resources so they can hire the personnel. We must meet our obligations to provide the additional resources they need so we can work as partners with local law enforcement and state law enforcement to enforce the law."
The sheriffs last week told Cornyn that dealing with the illegal immigrants puts a major strain on their staffs, their jails and their departmental budgets.
They asked for federal money to pay for equipment and jail costs, as well as additional deputies that could be cross-trained as Border Patrol agents. They'd also like to see a Border Patrol station opened in Victoria.
The senator's office said Cornyn discussed the Victoria meeting and the immigration issue in relation to the Homeland Security Appropriations bill being debated now in the Senate.
Cornyn, along with Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., plans to introduce legislation soon that will dramatically strengthen enforcement, bolster border security and comprehensively reform our immigration laws, his office said.
This year, Cornyn has chaired a series of hearings to determine which challenges facing what he referred to in Victoria as "our broken immigration system" can be solved with more resources or additional legal tools, and which require more fundamental and comprehensive reforms to current immigration law and other domestic policies.
Not to worry. Naauuuugggggtttttt to worry . .
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Cornyn told the Senate that the Victoria-area law enforcement officials "are willing to help and willing to be of assistance, but they want the training and they need additional resources so they can hire the personnel. We must meet our obligations to provide the additional resources they need so we can work as partners with local law enforcement and state law enforcement to enforce the law."
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It's hard to believe Cornyn is advocating for better enforcement of the border.
More likely, he's asking for more "humanitarian aid" to make the wetbacks comfortable at the end of their strenuous journeys.
As far as I know Corwyn is pro amnesty
Not Cornyn! He is totally against amnesty. He assures us that amnesty is bad because it just results in more illegal immigration. He just wants to let all the illegals stay and have legal status. But amnesty, no way! /sarc
And for those future illegals who are not here yet, he wants to make sure that they do not add to the illegal problem by making it possible for an unlimited number of them to come legally as long as somebody is willing to pay them minimum wage for a job that used to give an American a middle class living. If all of the world's 6 billion poor can come to America legally then the illegal immigration problem is solved. Cornyn is a genius!
But he promises all these guests will eventually be required to return home. But I bet he does not offer a workable enforcement mechanism to make sure that happens. We can't deport the illegals we have now so why is there any reason to believe that we will beable to deport the guests when their guestworker visas expire in a few years. I bet he also does not offer any sort of mechanism for ensuring that the costs to society of hosting all these guests are born by those who benefit, either the guests themselves or their employers. He is simply going to pretend that once the hordes of Mexicans who are bankrupting our schools and hospitals are legal instead of illegal that the costs to taxpayers have magically disappeared.
Not only that, amnesty has a handmaiden called "family reunification". Based on what I saw as a result of Reagan's amnesty in the 80s, once these illegals are allowed to remain here, the cry goes out for families to be together. Thus, gamma and ganpa come up here and immediately go on Social Security, a cripple or a widowed/single mother goes on SSI, the chronically sick go to ER, etc. Amnesty is just the tip of the iceberg. Whatever the number of illegals, multiply that bt at least four - all on the public dole.
Where is your compassion? /sarc
I am in full agreement. I favor family reunification but this Teddy Kennedy special badly needs to be reformed. Currently, due to bureaucratic inefficiencies and huge demand, it often takes years for families to be reunited. It is wrong to separate people from their spouse and children. Family reunification should be rapid and almost automatic for legal immigrants.
But it should also be limited. The core family is spouse and minor children. Family reunification should NOT be extended to parents, grand-parents, aunts, uncles or adult children.
By limiting family reunification to the core family, demand would be sharply reduced and the administrative backlog and delays would be correspondingly cut. This type of reform would end the problem of anchor babies sponsoring in their lawbreaking illegal parents as citizens. It would also end chain migration where we admit one person from some tribal society and pretty soon we have imported a whole village of ignorant third worlders because they are all interrelated and put their whole society on welfare. Anchor babies and chain migration place a huge burden on taxpayers because we end up picking up the cost of lots of old and ignorant people who are incapable of making a contribution to our society.
If our new immigrant citizens feel the need to see their extended family they can either have them come on tourist visas or they can use their rights of free travel as American citizens to go visit them in their homeland.
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"Our broken immigration system" was brought to us courtesy of Bush, along with the help of the enablers in Congress, both Democrats and Republicans. Now we are to believe they are seriously considering doing something. If they do anything it will be giving citizenship to every illegal before long. I would imagine it to be sometime before Bush leaves office.
It can only last for sooo loooong.
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