After Rip van Sessions praised RosenWeasel, his public evaluation of the fey Wray completed his game of MouseTrap.
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.
Yes, could easily be both! :-)
Tired of not doing your job in Texas?
The tests are expensive. If they weren’t, I agree.
There's also NOTHING about THE WALL; which should make it a no starter.
The so-called "animosity" is warranted; however, this is the here and now and Teddy the Canadian is just running scared. Also his "plan" stinks on ice for many different reason, which is WHY the majority of posters on this thread are against it...NOT because of his words and actions of '16!
Nope. We Texans have been doing the heavy lifting, on these ILLEGAL border crossers, for DECADES.
I just don’t care for folks up in NY saying those here ILLEGALLY don’t need to be deported. (Follow my replies, upthread.)
Do you want to house them in NY? We can send them to any of the many lovely camps you have there ;-)
See Post #69. This is a common sense solution, not a back stab.
Laura Ingraham and Shannon Bream have both done excellent shows, tonight, pointing out that the majority of these ‘families’ aren’t really families!
Mexican/Central American moms are handing off their kids to total strangers (cartel ran coyotes) to dangerous situations (child trafficking, etc.)
That’s where the outrage SHOULD be, with these brain dead libs.
yep
For that statement alone, I want Jeff Sessions fired yesterday. What a numbnutz! Chris Wray is every bit the incompetent, corrupt moron that Comey is.
But probably far cheaper than giving these damned INVADERS housing, schooling ( frfom pre-school through college ), medical care, welfare ( on top of them working and getting paid under the table ), and having any of them rob, rape, and/or murder on AMERICAN CITIZENS; not to mention allowing them to vote for Dems!
BOVINE EXCREMENT!
Yes, they have done! I have been watching it all too. :-)
The truth is coming out, and Trump is about to be vindicated completely.
I am sorry but I just don’t see it. I once tried to, but now view the subject some what like arguing over who should have won the 1950 World Series.
If the media and the ‘RATS don’t like what Trump is doing, they would REALLY hate what I would do if I were President: I would order all border enforcement agents to shoot anyone attempting to cross the border illegally. MS13, women, children. That would stop the nonsense REAL quick!
Just build the Dog~Gone Wall already !!!
After Rip van Sessions praised RosenWeasel, his public evaluation of the fey Wray completed his game of MouseTrap.
Nix it.
Keep families together...in their own countries.
Do not allow them in to ours.
Cruz, take a walk and get lost. You are dead wrong on this idea. Wake up and smell the mess you would be creating.
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