{"id":21581,"date":"2019-06-12T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21581"},"modified":"2019-06-12T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:59:14","slug":"democrats-continue-to-undermine-efforts-to-end-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/06\/12\/democrats-continue-to-undermine-efforts-to-end-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Continue To Undermine Efforts To End Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a> was supposed to discuss a legislative proposal to address the devolving situation at the southern border.\u00a0 Democrats had other priorities, namely engaging in endless obstruction, obfuscation, and sophomoric finger-pointing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ranking member Dianne\nFeinstein (D-Calif.) set the tone by attempting to characterize the current\nhumanitarian and security crisis as part of an ongoing cycle of mass border\nincursions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn looking at the numbers\ngoing back to 1925 to 2018, there have been 15 years where we have had more than\n1 million intrusions. We have had over a decade where the country has\nfaced these crossings in the past, so it\u2019s not unusual that it would happen\nagain,\u201d insisted ranking member Dianne Feinstein of California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This crisis is <\/em>historically different, countered\nDepartment of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to make clear that\nthis is unlike anything we have ever seen at our border and it is in large part\ndue to the gaps in our immigration laws,\u201d said McAleenan, who added that those\ngaps are \u201ccausing a massive demographic shift in the flow\u201d and \u201cplacing\nchildren at unique and critical risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What also is different is\ncomplete and total refusal of Congress, primarily Democrats, to take a single\nstep toward changing the laws which are incentivizing thousands of migrants to\nrisk their \u2013 and their children\u2019s \u2013 lives to get to the U.S. border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been over 18 months\nsince the administration asked for the legislative fixes that would have\nprevented the current crisis and 40 days since we asked for the emergency\nfunding necessary to manage it,\u201d he told the committee. Since the Trump\nadministration sent a request to Congress for emergency funds in May, more than\n60,000 children have entered into DHS custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)\nand his fellow Democrats seemingly are alright with the prospect of another\n60,000 children in detention or another record-setting 144,000 illegal alien\napprehensions (the total in May) as long as they get the mass amnesty so\ndesired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow whether a supplemental gets done is up to the\nadministration. If they continue to block bipartisan legislation, nothing\nhappens. \u2026 We want long term solutions,\u201d threatened Leahy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The long-term solutions Democrats seek do not include\nany that would address the \u201cpull factors\u201d behind the current crisis and there\nis great concern they will add an amnesty poison bill to a bill that would\nhelp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two critical changes are included in the\u00a0Secure and Protect Act<\/a>, the proposal offered by Judiciary Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.). Specifically, change the Flores Settlement Agreement to allow longer detention of illegal aliens and reform U.S. asylum laws. Simply implementing those changes, said McAleenan, could result in 90 percent<\/a> reduction in the migrant flow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the hearing, Democrats directed their scorn and criticism at the Trump administration, not at the coyotes and traffickers who rent migrant children<\/a> to adults so they can claim them as their own at the border, including a 51-year old who rented an 8-month old for $80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Committee Democrats challenged the legitimacy of a\nthree-day pilot DNA program that uncovered 17 cases of fraud among 109\nfamilies. They also expressed doubt when the DHS secretary testified that in\nfive weeks more than 240 cases of fraud were identified during 660 illegal\nalien interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee was supposed to discuss a legislative proposal to address the devolving situation at the southern border.\u00a0 Democrats had other priorities, namely engaging in endless obstruction, obfuscation, and sophomoric finger-pointing. Ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) set the tone by attempting to characterize the current humanitarian and security crisis as part<\/p>\n

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