Posted by Tina
Fresh off a trip to Guatemala and Honduras, a House GOP working group on immigration will recommend Tuesday that the conference change a 2008 trafficking law to stop the thousands of immigrant children flooding across the border.
Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), the working group’s leader, will argue that child immigrants from Central America should be subject to the same rules as those from Mexico. A source close to Granger said the group will also advise that National Guard troops be sent to the border, a longstanding demand from Republicans. …
… During the trip to Honduras and Guatemala, Granger and other members of the working group, including Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) and Steve Pearce (N.M.), as well as Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), toured a Honduras community outreach center aimed at preventing children from crossing the border. The lawmakers also met with the presidents of both countries, and visited repatriation centers in both countries.
The working group’s presentation parallels but is separate from the House Appropriations Committee’s ongoing review of the administration’s request. Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said last week that $3.7 billion was “too much.” …
… House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), another working group member, said Sunday that border security legislation his panel unanimously passed in 2013 could be included in any package. The bill, which has bipartisan support, would require the Department of Homeland Security to establish a national plan to secure the border, which must result in a 90 percent apprehension rate of illegal crossers within five years.
Brick wall to follow?
I hope the Republicans know how many Hispanics support them.
Don Lemon Shocked by Paul Rodriguez Supporting Deportation of Illegal Children:
“It wasn’t supposed to go this way. Or so CNN’s Don Lemon must have thought when he had Mexican-American comedian Paul Rodriguez on his CNN Tonight show on Wednesday.
Perhaps Lemon was expecting the standard liberal answers from Rodriguez about what to do with the illegal children flooding across the border from Central American countries. Instead, Rodriguez shocked him as in can see in this video (and after the jump) with an answer that took him completely by surprise.
DON LEMON: So Paul, let me start with you. We’re a nation of immigrants. Look out there tonight at the Statue of Liberty. We have compassion for children. Why are we so divided in this country as to what to do about this problem?
PAUL RODRIGUEZ, COMEDIAN/ACTOR: I don’t think we are divided. I think America has its heart in the right place. We need to be compassionate. We need to be strong and enforce our laws.
It is precisely why we should make it clear in these countries that regardless of the — of the trauma that they’re obviously going through. But name me a Latin American country that doesn’t have poor people. We have to set laws. We have to let them know that it isn’t the land of milk and honey, that life isn’t easy here.
You know, my heart goes out to the parents that have to traumatize their kids to go through Mexico. They must go through terrible abuse. But at the same time, if we accept these children and we don’t repatriate them, it’s only going to send out a clear signal to everyone in Latin America that, if you get to America, you will stay here. And then, if you think those numbers are big now, it’s hard to trust the statistics.
LEMON: People — people may be surprised to hear that coming from someone who is an immigrant.
RODRIGUEZ: Absolutely. But, you know, there are ways to come to this country, you know. There are ways; there are legal ways. Look, once they’re here, I’m not saying to be cruel to them or anything like that. But if we — if we accept — let’s say we accept these children, we let them stay here in America, we give them good homes, what is this going to say to everybody else? Are we prepared to be overwhelmed? Because that’s exactly what’s going to happen.
Sorry for the your discomfort, Don. However, every once in a while you will have a guest that will veer away from his expected liberal script.”
Video:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/07/12/don-lemon-shocked-paul-rodriguez-supporting-deportation-illegal-childre#ixzz37Vc9rDfi
And the bill had better have the funds to build the fence and an accounting of all the funding previously granted for it.
It does not make any sense to send the National Guard to the boarder as long as the law says we have to keep them.
See Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.
If the federal government is not going to enforce current law, and is not going to allow state law enforcement to do the job, I doubt the National Guard would be called out even if a law was passed to send them.
Where Obama goes chaos grows.
Where Is Obama’s Border Policy?
A serious president would push to eliminate the Central American loophole in our immigration laws.
By Charles Krauthammer
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/382435/where-obamas-border-policy-charles-krauthammer
Excerpt —
Will these immigrants be allowed to stay? Seven times was Obama’s homeland-security secretary asked this on Meet the Press. Seven times he danced around the question.
Presidential press secretary Josh Earnest was ostensibly more forthcoming: “It’s unlikely that most of those kids will qualify for humanitarian relief. . . . They will be sent back.” This was characterized in the media as a harder line. Not at all. Yes, those kids who go through the process will likely have no grounds to stay. But most will never go through the process.
These kids are being flown or bused to family members around the country and told to then show up for deportation hearings. Why show up? Why not just stay where they’ll get superior schooling, superior health care, superior everything? As a result, only 3 percent are being repatriated, to cite an internal Border Patrol memo.