Posted on 06/11/2014 5:06:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, on Wednesday said U.S. aid that has helped return Mexican cities like Ciudad Juárez to normalcy after years of violence should also be used to help Mexico secure its border with Central America and stem the growing tide of undocumented immigrants arriving in Texas.
“That 500-mile border between Guatemala and Mexico is a sieve,” Cornyn said during a conference call with reporters. “Once these unaccompanied minors or other adults get in to the hands of the gangs that smuggle them through areas controlled by the Zetas or other cartels, this is not a benign situation. This is a dangerous and deadly … journey.”
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said during the committee hearing that the administration’s deferred action for childhood arrivals, or DACA, was to blame for the spike. The program was initiated two years ago, and it allows qualified applicants who arrived in the U.S. as minors to obtain a work permit and a two-year reprieve from deportation proceedings.
“You can see sometime after [DACA], the numbers spike dramatically,” Cruz told Johnson during the committee hearing. “Is it really your testimony that granting amnesty to some 800,000 people who came here illegally as children had no effect in causing a dramatic increase of children being handed over to international drug cartels to be smuggled in here illegally?"
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I’m not sure how this all breaks out.
Truth stranger than fiction, to put it mildly.
Mexico is a corrupt failed state.
They should be sanctioned for treating their people so badly and dumping them on another nation.
We should help them seal their Northern border.
Make Mexico ours. Part of the US. Change the dynamic.
How about helping them seal their northern border instead?
Brilliant!!
POSenator
“Separately, ship a few thousand to the hometown of every US Senator who voted for The Dream Act. “
Guantanamo comes to mind. Better food.
West LA, Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar, Palos Verdes, Santa Barbara, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Woodside, Portola Valley, Menlo Park, Atherton...
Straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.
Why don’t we help Mexico seal its northern border instead?
one national news show said while showing all the young people in holding programs, they are mostly from central America. As my wife and I look at the pictures we say kids in diapers, children 5 to 9 ...where did they get the resources to cross Mexico? This is a major con job. the parents are there too.
Simple solution. Make Mexico pay for our support of their citizens in our country illegally. Believe me they will stop this nonsense in a micro second!
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