Graham: border problem is humanitarian, not immigration

heraldonline.com ^ | 7/7/14 | Clark Brooks

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Tens of thousands of people flocking to the U.S. border from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have stirred anger into the boiling immigration debate, but U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that the crisis confronting federal, state and local governments is not an immigration issue.

“It’s a humanitarian problem, but it’s apart from immigration reform. This is a specific problem created by an impression that if you get to America, you can stay,” Graham said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“We’ve got to turn that impression around, send these children back to their homelands, tell the countries in question if you don’t keep them and take care of them, we’re going to cut all aid,” said Graham, a Republican from Seneca.

Nevertheless, the growing wave of humanity, including more than 52,000 unaccompanied children detained since October, has ignited protests against undocumented immigrants, including one in Murrieta, Calif., that blocked buses bound for a Border Patrol processing center. The buses carried women and children who had been flown to California from the overwhelmed border state of Texas.

[Bullfrogg]

Yes, Diogenesis, we are having to pull this great lady out the Obama muck and mire......I truly have a sic feeling in my stomach.

[Eva]

No, the border problem is not humanitarian. A humanitarian issue would be solved by sending aid workers into the home countries, importing the problems of the third world into our country.