Ted Cruz Proposes Emergency Bill to Address Child Separation – Here’s What It Does
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) offered Monday an emergency proposal meant to address and mitigate the crisis of family separations by immigration enforcement officials at the border. . .
Cruz’s bill would double the number of federal immigration judges, from about 375 to 750, in order to more quickly adjudicate asylum and illegal immigration cases.
It would also set up additional temporary shelters to accommodate families who would under current policy be separated.
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. We can end this crisis by passing the legislation I am introducing this week. –> https://t.co/D4W7e7qaw6
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) June 18, 2018
I've visited detention facilities tragically housing children. For too long, they've been victims of our broken immigration system, detained under the Obama Administration & through the present, facing horrific physical or sexual assault from human traffickers.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) June 18, 2018
The answer isn't what congressional Dems are proposing: releasing illegal aliens & returning to the failed policy of ‘catch & release.’ Rather, we must fix the backlog in immigration cases, remove legal barriers to swift processing & resolve asylum cases on an expedited basis.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) June 18, 2018
While cases are pending, families should stay together.Children belong w their families.Once their cases have been adjudicated–under my bill, in no longer than 14 days–those who meet the standard should be granted asylum & those who don’t should be returned to their home country.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) June 18, 2018
Cruz’s bill also says that families should stay together except on two occasions, when there is criminal conduct or there appears a threat of harm to children. . .
The media is attempting to place all the blame of family separation on President Donald Trump, but the administration has pointed out that the law that led to the policy has been in place for more than a decade. (Read more from “Ted Cruz Proposes Emergency Bill to Address Child Separation – Here’s What It Does” HERE)
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