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.
RE: This is why Trump won the election.
Cruz is a total sell-out on some issues.
Such as this one.
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What is your proposal? IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION?
Needed: Legislation which guts the existing process and replaces with immediate deportation of those caught in the act of entering illegally
Recycle those FEMA trailers from Katrina
Sorry, Ted....the MAJORITY are NOT families!!
They are - as Laura Ingraham’s show just pointed out - kids that have LITERALLY BEEN DROPPED OFF WITH STRANGERS, at the border.
An adult (stranger) will gladly ‘hook up’ (Laura’s words, not mine) with these kids as a FREE RIDE/FAST PASS entrance into this country....to do WHO knows what with these kids.
SEND THEM BACK!! Let Mexico deal with this ‘inhumane’ situation.
How soon can we be rid of Lyn' Ted?!
Nothing, absolutely NOTHING short of AMNESTY, a green card, a SS #, and citizenship for EVERY DAMNED ILLEGAL CRIMINAL will please the Dems and RINOS; with a pledge to fly in every single POS scum, from ALL OVER THE WORLD.
You just don't understand this at all.
Were/are you a #NEVERTRUMPER?
If Trumo did what you want him to do, with the help of Lyin' Ryan, he will lose both Houses and be impeached AND kicked out of office, at the least.
make all asylum applications and vetting happen at the applicants country using the US Embassy, not this walk up to a border get-in-free card it has turned in to.
The first and fourth provisions are poison pills. Dems will reject, and shown to be clowns, once again.
Then you are also wrong.
What is your proposal? IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION?
Yes. These “children” (many are not really children) are being given to cartels and coyotes, to be brought up and into country by STRANGERS.
They are then fed to child trafficking groups, here in the states.
Let Mexico deal with this self-inflicted issue.
What is YOUR proposal?
I say again.
Build the wall.
First. Now. Before we do even one thing else on the border, on immigration, on anything related.
BUILD THE WALL.
Right now.
Deport All Criminal Aliens ... and their kids.
How about legislation to keep American families together if someone in the family breaks the law?
That’s what I say. Just build the damn wall.
Gosh, that is a whole bunch of capital letters.
RIP, forum decorum.
What is your exact objection to his proposed legislation?
Which part would you prefer to toss?
I’ll give you a shiny penny if your answer avoids shouting.
With the wall, they wouldn’t even try to break into our country.
This is human smuggling and trafficking! Why isn't the Trump Administration calling this spade as it is!
STOP ACCEPTING THE PREMISE OF THE LEFT.
Didn’t Cruz defend this not long ago? I guess he saw some bad numbers that favored Beto.
Where is border wall funding in Rafaels Bill?
How fast and how cheap can we do DNA tests?
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