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.
Maybe, when on September 11, 2016, when the witch HAD to be helped into the van, she would have lost anyways because ill health. No one wants to vote for someone with health issues.
Happy that it was Trump who won.
Thanks for attempting to assist. The granite on North Mtn is apparently extra thick. For the record I do indeed suffer from CDS, but then I suffer that when exposed to any known liar AND politician. I’m told on good authority, it’s a sickness. smdh.
Cruz has really turned into a no integrity pandering creep, and I say that as a former supporter.
RE: Cruz has really turned into a no integrity pandering creep, and I say that as a former supporter.
OK, tell me this — What part of Cruz’s proposal do you disagree with and why?
Keep in mind that Trump already said he would support it if it was passed.
This discussion is over!
No, I wouldn't call it CDS...you and I just can't stomach a smarmy, lying, hypocritical,conniving, do nothing, back stabbing pol.
I'm ore than delighted that Trump; is the president! :-)
I disagree. She would have lost anyways. Everything from that day onwards was starting to go against her. Her supporters forget that what was against her was “lack of leadership skills and experience” with the ill health. Trump was looking by the day then.
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Correction: Trump was looking good by the day.
I said that her die hard supporters would not leave her as they never cared at all about her 1) ill health 2) drunkenness 3) crimes 4) corruption 5) Benghazi 6) inadequacies 7) nor anything else...they just wanted her to win and are still having fits that she didn't.
Her supporters are living in the past.
Though they act and sound like feral children with rabies, they DO live in the here and now and HATE every single day of it, because Trump is the president.
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