Democrats and the Border Children

Wall Street Journal ^ | June 5, 2019 7:17 p.m. ET

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In simple humanitarian terms, U.S. border personnel are overwhelmed. Health and Human Services is tasked with caring for children but is running out of money to do so. CBP is so busy trying to manage families that it is out of money to detain adults who arrive illegally.

Since children can’t be detained beyond 20 days, they’re released along with their parents. Border Protection can’t send home unaccompanied children from Central American countries. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is coping with record numbers in detention facilities, so adult migrants without known criminal records are now sometimes released pending their date in immigration court. This means the U.S. border is effectively open to anyone who wants to come across.

Yet incredibly, Congress passed a disaster relief bill this week that does nothing to address this obvious emergency. The Administration is seeking $4.5 billion, some $2.8 billion of which would go to HHS to care for children, including 23,600 more beds. Another $1.1 billion would go to Homeland Security, including $391 million for food, shelter, medical care and other humanitarian needs. And $530 million would pay for transporting, processing and detaining migrants, among other expenses.

The money is crucial but Congress can also help by making three simple changes to reduce the incentives for families and children to seek asylum. The most important would let border officials detain families with children beyond 20 days. The current limit guarantees that more will come because they know they will be released into the U.S. as they await a formal asylum hearing. That can take years, and many never show for the hearing.

The second change would let children claim asylum protection in their home country, then allow them to reunite with parents already in the United States.

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So the Southern border of the USA, is totally out of control.

Somebody tell me again...……..Why isn’t the Border closed down for as long as it takes to get control of Illegals INVADING the USA.

[EagleUSA]

*** WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, TRUMP??? CLOSE THE BORDER ***

[Don Corleone]

In simple humanitarian terms, U.S. border personnel are overwhelmed.

Cloward-Piven!!!

[RideForever]

The list goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population)
7) demonstrate English proficiency to acquire citizenship and pass civics test.

Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport.

Also consider reciprocation of the laws of the countries of origin of the illegal aliens. For example, Mexico doesn’t allow land ownership or voting to immigrants, and doesn’t honor birthright citizenship like its citizens expect from the U.S. We should offer the same deal to them.