Posted on 06/18/2018 7:11:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz announced emergency legislation Monday evening to keep immigrant families together after they cross the border into the United States.
The legislation follows comments Cruz made on Saturday that essentially called for more resources to adjudicate asylum claims. He also called for keeping immigrant kids with their parents as long as those adults are not associated with criminal activity.
"All Americans are rightly horrified by the images we are seeing on the news, children in tears pulled away from their mothers and fathers," Cruz wrote in a release. "This must stop. Now. We can end this crisis by passing the legislation I am introducing this week."
The provisions of the legislation, according to the news release, include:
* Doubling the number of federal immigration judges, from roughly 375 to 750.
* Authorizing new temporary shelters with accommodations to keep families together.
* Mandating that immigrant families be kept together, absent aggravated criminal conduct or threat of harm to children.
* Providing for expedited processing and review of asylum cases so that — within 14 days — those who meet the legal standards will be granted asylum and those who do not will be immediately returned to their home countries.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, Texas' senior senator and the second-ranking Senate Republican, said on the chamber floor earlier Monday that he, too, would introduce legislation on this front.
"It will include provisions that mitigate the problem of family separation while improving the immigration court process for unaccompanied children and families apprehended at the border," he said. "To the greatest extent possible, families presenting at ports of entry or apprehended crossing the border illegally will be kept together while waiting for their court hearings, which will be expedited.”
Cruz and Cornyn are part of a growing number of Republican federal lawmakers who are pushing back against the Trump Administration's recently implemented "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which has so far led to the separation of about 2,000 children from their parents at the border. House Republicans are currently reworking a compromise immigration bill that would modify — but not end — the "zero tolerance" policy, NPR reported Monday.
Cruz's Democratic rival in his fall re-election bid, U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke of El Paso, spent part of the weekend demonstrating near a tent city in Tornillo, outside of El Paso.
Tired of not doing your job in Texas?
Also, why is it MY job, in TX, to take care of this problem?
As I said in my previous reply, to this inane post of yours, you can let these innocent, poor children....who were given away BY their parents, to STRANGERS, come to the beautiful campgrounds in YOUR state. So YOU can do YOUR job.
(facepalm)
President Trump already has implemented the solution.
Cruz is simply joining in with the Leftists to attack Trump again.
Not all that different that when he joined them to blame candidate Trump for the Chicago riots.
Lyin Cruz is a practiced backstabber.
You're also illiterate. You clearly saw my initial comment on this thread ... you are simply incapable of understanding it. Back to First Grade reading class with you!
Yes I did. I attempted to agree, since you presented yourself to be agin Teddy, all the while wondering where you're CDS accusation came from. So in short, you don't know WTF you support, you're all over the map. I'll now wash my hands of your a$$hattery!
I'm not beholden to ANY politician, I don't do bandwagon politics, and I'm not part of anybody's personality cult.
Why don't you grow up and join me in being an adult? Can you join me in supporting politicians when they're right and opposing them when they're wrong, regardless of personality? Are you man enough to do that?
Grandstanding instead of passing legislation to protect our borders.
RE: Grandstanding instead of passing legislation to protect our borders.
OK. Let’s say you are a Senator, and you have to deal with the Democrats and the RINO’s, what bill would you propose that has a good chance of passing without being called a grandstander?
A Bill that embraces Trump's four pillars.
RE: A Bill that embraces Trump’s four pillars.
The first of Trump’s pillars is this : Path to Citizenship for DREAMers. You support this?
This whole issue will be forgotten by the time of the midterms.
The kids can only be detained 20 days by law. To keep the families together, the asylum claim has to be adjudicated inside those 20 days, unless this bill changes that provision.
Releasing the adults to avoid the separation is not an option - that’s the infamous “catch and release”.
Or barely squeaked by ill Hillary in 2016.
Why make a big deal over ALL CAPS?
RE: Releasing the adults to avoid the separation is not an option - that’s the infamous “catch and release”.
Where in Ted Cruz’s proposed bill does it say “Catch and Release”?
Sorry I was unclear. I was pointing out that there is a codicil of the 1997 law that makes it illegal to hold the kids more than 20 days. Under the current law, therefore, either families are separated or the adults get released (what Obozo used to do).
If Cruz’s bill doesn’t address the 20 day limit, then we stay in the same stalemate we now have. I do not see it reasonable that an asylum claim can be adjudicated in 14 days unless it is a slam-dunk case for or against, or if the applications are all either rejected or accepted arbitrarily.
Just figuring out who many of the illegal aliens actually are will take more than 14 days, IMO.
Ted catering to the invasion lobby.
Thanks, Ted, because making life comfortable for law ignoring Mexican citizens is certainly why you were elected to the Senate.
Make America Mexico Again
The motto of the Bush Republicans.
RE: Ted catering to the invasion lobby.
OK, what bill would you propose instead that has a reasonable chance of passing given the Democrats and the RINO wing of the GOP?
Or is it your contention that we not pass any bill at all and just live with the status quo ....
The Cruz bill has this provision:
Providing for expedited processing and review of asylum cases so that — within 14 days — those who meet the legal standards will be granted asylum and those who do not will be immediately returned to their home countries.
A new bill? Why do we need a new bill?
How about enforcing the laws that we already have?
Which is what those of us who have been fighting the illegal alien invasion have asked for since we passed Prop 187 back in 1994. My guess is that your concern with the issue doesn’t exactly go back very far.
True; but no matter how he lost, he WOULD have lost to the witch.
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