Thread: Ted Cruz promises bill to deal with border crisis, keep families together

The Latest: Cruz promises bill to deal with border crisis


Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, walks past White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, right, after speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, June 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)


Posted: Monday, June 18, 2018 7:15 pm | Updated: 7:46 pm, Mon Jun 18, 2018.
Associated Press |

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and immigration (all times EDT):
8 p.m.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says he is introducing emergency legislation intended to keep migrant families together.

Cruz has released a statement saying: "All Americans are rightly horrified by the images we are seeing on the news, children in tears pulled away from their mothers and fathers. This must stop. Now."

The Republican senator says his proposal would double the number of federal immigration judges; authorize new temporary shelters that can accommodate families; and mandate that families immigrating illegally be kept together, absent criminal conduct or threat of harm to the children.

Cruz also says his proposal would provide for expedited processing of asylum cases so that, within 14 days, those who meet the legal standards will be granted asylum and whose who don't will be returned to their home countries immediately.

https://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ne...866768f5c.html

Why is this being allowed? It is not the responsibility of the American people to succumb to the theft of our dollars by irresponsible lawmakers who have neglected to secure our borders and who have allowed this travesty.

Where are the signs at the border that say you may be separated from family upon entry. Why is Mexico and the other nations not being publically shamed and American citizen dollars cut off from their access.

Why are we encouraging asylum? Where does it end?

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Well, I surely hope Ted Cruz legislation expedites the process of getting these people out of our country in 14 days. I'd prefer 48 hours, but I can live with 2 weeks. Of course, it will take longer than that to pass the bill and who knows what will happen to it. Probably nothing. I don't like his comment about "being horrified" .... that's phony baloney, but lets hope something good for our side comes from it. Probably won't, but there's a chance.

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https://www.alipac.us/f12/cruz-offer...ildren-359683/

Pass the "Bus Bill".

Offer them a bus ticket, a sack lunch, and safe transportation right back to the doorstep of their President.

If they do not accept the bus ticket, they can stay in Mexico on the bridge and find their own way back. Mexico let them in and Mexico can assume that responsibility.

No asylum, whatsoever, for any of them. We cannot allow this to continue another 30 days or 50 years.

We cannot continue to allow these FOUR countries to shirk their responsibilities to their citizens and dump their problems on our doorstep.

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