The Democrats will never vote for Cruz’s bill.
They don’t want a fix; they want a political issue.
Its going nowhere in an election year and common sense immigration reform will only happen when pigs can fly.
Feinstein has a bill which merely bans separating children and basically just goes back to the same policy which is encouraging mass illegal immigration and encouraging trafficking. If they won’t vote for the Cruz bill, the ball is in their court. Mark Meadows supports it too as does Rubio.
See, that is the crux of it, and the interesting thing about this is that the Leftists have no other issues, none, that they can go with.
Repeat: None.
And there is likelihood that a few of their Leftist police state tactics exercised in the last administration and the last election are going to blow up in their faces as the election gets nearer.
That makes the Left desperate.
So, like a drowning man, they latched onto this because it is ALL they have. That is it.
On the face of it, the entire thing is stupid. I repeat: STUPID. The left, likening it to Nazi concentration camps, and even the Japanese Internment camps (A leftist idea, lest we forget), framing it as child abuse, calling for the resignation of Kirstjen Nielsen by the vacuous likes of Kamala Harris, and the non-stop 24x7 support by the media, who lest we forget, were actively bribing the FBI for leaks.
There is not a thing wrong with what is being done. Nothing. Parents who are not sent to jail for other crimes are reunited with their children and deported.
I am not in favor of passing legislation to create areas to have children and adults detained together. These are the solutions to this, and I don’t support anything less:
1.) Eliminate the anchor baby loophole. The rest of the world doesn’t allow it for good reason. Eliminate it.
2.) Eliminate chain migration. Period.
3.) Enforce the immediate deportation of people with their children who do not apply for asylum as required and are caught in the illegal act of unauthorized entry.
4.) Immediately deport anyone and their children who enters from Central America (or any other country) via Mexico who has not first applied for asylum in Mexico. We have a treaty with Mexico and other countries on the process for asylum. The first SAFE country, not the one that has the best freebies. Mexico wants to change the agreement. This is how it is done in the EU. First SAFE country.
5.) Need to address the issue of asylum. These people may be criminals, but that doesn’t mean they are completely stupid. If they claim asylum and we allow them to, everyone knows that children can only be held for 20 days before they must be released, due to the decisions by 9th Circuit and the Flores Consent Decree. Which means the “asylum” seeker will be released with children into the population.
6.) Streamline the process of hearing and deportation. Get rid of loopholes. Button the processes down. Appoint more judges, hire more resources.
7.) When deported, fingerprint, retina scan, everything else. Improve the infrastructure so that someone out enforcing immigration can get an immediate feedback of REPEAT ILLEGAL ALIEN and process them accordingly. Immediately.
I am NOT in favor of creating camps for this. The responsibility is on the ADULT bringing the child over to this country IN VIOLATION OF OUR LAW, not on US because we enforce OUR law. If the left wants to classify this as child abuse, that should be applied to the adults or parents who subject the children to this.
Lastly, BUILD A DAMNED WALL. Surely it can be done for less than $100 billion dollars, the low end of the estimates of the annual costs of illegal immigration. We are in a civil war right now with the Left over the future of this country. We better start acting like we know it, because they surely do and are intent on subjugating us by any means possible, legal or illegal.