Posted on 06/19/2018 9:57:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) on Tuesday introduced legislation that would end the separation of immigrant families at the border as the White House scrambles to contain the fallout from the controversial policy.
The bill from Meadows, one of President Trump’s top allies in Congress and a conservative ringleader, would allow children to be detained with their parents.
The measure would also make it more difficult to seek asylum in the United States — a top priority for conservatives that could stop Democrats from backing the measure.
“We need to better enforce our immigration laws, but we can do so while keeping parents and children together. I believe my bill will help do that,” said Meadows, who visited the White House earlier on Monday.
The Trump administration has faced intense outrage from both Democrats and Republicans for its “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has forced immigrant children to be separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump has shown no signs of backing down on the policy, however, and has tried to shift the blame on Democrats.
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i’m all for this- if you keep them together it will be much easier to deport them together..
We’ll have to compare with the Cruz Bill.
That’s fine..these kids are NOT my problem..reunite them with the freeloaders who brought them here and DEPORT THEM TOGETHER, problem solved
We’ve got to get a better understanding of how to ignore these fake crises that are manufactured by the Democrat-media complex. The law in question is decades old, as is the practice. Nothing’s changed other than a concerted effort by the left to make it into an issue. If I have warrants, and I’m stopped with my kid in the car, he’s going to be “separated” from me.
Why do they keep calling it policy. ? It’s law. Enforcing the law is not policy, it’s the duty of the executive branch.
Personally, my preferred solution involves minefields and machine gun nests ...
-PJ
This is so typical of Congress. When faced with a problem, propose a solution that applies to less than 20% of the situations the U.S. government is dealing with related to that “problem.”
Does it pay for 5,000 kid-friendly buses to take them to Mexico City?
Its not “Trumps Policy”. Its the law.
The Republican Party is so weak.
We should move detention centers out of the States and our Territories entirely.
How about setting up shop in Haiti, employing a lot of Haitians in the process?
Would people be as eager to sneak in if they thought they’d end up in Haiti instead? Even if temporarily before being deported or whatever?
And the large number of jobs created in Haiti might help make up for the Clintons’ numerous misdeeds there. Just make sure that no FOB or FOH get any control of or investment in the camps.
Why not make a blanket announcement there IS NO MORE AMNESTY.
This whole episode is a designed gambit by actors who seek to disrupt the continuity of the Founders achievement. Again it is a loathsome demonstration, indefensible in reasoned discourse.
Saw Kirstjen Nielsen on this and watching the Dems and MSM sow confusion on this to make the Trump admin look like liars.
Endorsing the law by ending Catch and Release can be called a policy because its a break from the last admin.
However not keeping the children detained with the adults they came with, in other words splitting them up is the law. Its a combination of a passed law and ruling. Obama got around this by rewarding those who came with children by letting them roam free here,
Not going to happen.
Democrats aren’t interested in helping the GOP out of a political jam.
The prospects for a good Immigration reform measure was always iffy; in reality, its DOA in an election year.
What is done when adults and children show up together without any proof who is the parent of what children?
The solution is everyone goes back, without exception, until the wall is built then nobody can get in in the first place.
The last thing democrats want is to not have immigration as a political issue. What else are they going to run on, Stormy?
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