All we have to say is thank you Senator Graham!
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., just unveiled a bill that would end asylum claims from Central America at the border and return unaccompanied minors to their home countries — a targeted effort to tackle the escalating migration crisis.
“This is a nightmare for smugglers,” Graham said. “This is a godsend to stop the humanitarian disaster.”
Graham’s bill is designed specifically to deal with loopholes he says are encouraging migrants from Central America to make the treacherous journey north and bring children with them. He pointed in particular to the 20-day limit for authorities to hold unaccompanied minors and families before having to release them into the U.S. homeland.
“The word is out on the street in Central America if you bring a minor child with you, your chance of being deported goes to almost zero, your hearing date is years away and we release you inside the country and that’s the goal of coming,” he said.
The bill would end asylum claims at the U.S. border for migrants from the Northern Triangle of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Instead, those applications would be filed at refugee processing centers set up in the Northern Triangle and Mexico. The legislation would also allow unaccompanied minors to be returned to their country of origin, which Graham said would be treating them the same as minors from Canada and Mexico.
His bill would extend the time families can be held together from 20 days to 100 days to help allow claims to be filed without families being released into the U.S. It would also add an additional 500 immigration judges to deal with the backlog of asylum claims.
Until these loopholes are dealt with, Graham said, other border security measures and funding are pointless — including President Trump’s call for a wall on the southern border.
“No matter how high the wall will be built, how many drones you have, no matter how many agents you have in the border, they’ll keep coming because they want to get caught,” he said.
Graham told reporters he was prepared to work with Democrats on moving the bill in Congress.
“If we do these four things, then the incentives created by our laws will cease to exist, this humanitarian disaster will begin to repair itself and I am willing to sit down with Democrats and find a way to address the underlying problem in Central America,” he said. “I am willing to put other immigration ideas on the table to marry up with this but what I am not willing to do is ignore this problem any longer.”
Graham’s proposal comes after Customs and Border Protection said it apprehended or turned away more than 109,000 migrants attempting to cross the border in April, the second month in a row the number has topped 100,000.
Fox News confirmed Wednesday that The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is planning to send hundreds of officials to the southern border to help the Department of Homeland Security with the crisis.
Src: Fox News
Thank God there is someone in the Congress of the United States that cares enough about America and its TAX PAYING citizens to work to do something about this disaster that the DEMOCRATS continue to foster!
THAT’S right this is to take care of the country. AND LOVE OUR COUNTRY!!
I wrote in opinion in Fb. the illegal aliens are invaders, intruders and abusers of the COUNTRY ECONOMIC SYSTEM. AND THE TAXPAYERS WE ARE NOT GOING TO PAY ON CENT TO ILLEGAL ALIENS. SO FB BLOCKED ME. FOR THIS COMMENT I O0NLY SAY THE TRUE AND ONLY THE TRUE.
THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO SILENCE US AND NOT FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THIS COUNTRY.
IN GOD WE TRUST! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Grahams bill sounds good, BUT,,,anyone should know it has no chance in the Housebas long as the Dems have control, so why try?
Senator Graham’s proposals are a good start, but will not solve the tremendous problem of
illegal immigration. For this migration to the US to stop, all monetary incentives must stop
totally. It is the welfare generosity that is the main reason for the caravans to form and to
proceed towards the US border. Remove the generosity and the illegal migration will abate.
Imagine what all the illegals have been saying among themselves all these years:” Let’s go to
America. The gringos are stupid enough to pay us for coming.”
THE ILLEGAL ALIENS DEFINITELY ARE ABUSERS OF THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMIC SYSTEM. ITS VERY OBVIOUS THEY COMING HERE NO TO GET A JOB, THEY COMING TO STEAL MONEY IN THEIR LANDSCAPING JOBS. DO NOT HIRE ILLEGAL ALIENS IN LANDSCAPING JOBS. HIRE AMERICANS ARE VERY HONEST PEOPLE.
IN GOD WE TRUST! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Gus, Actually..! – it IS Very simple…..ARREST G SOROS!! & Son, THROW them in PRISON..IN INCOMMUNICADO, TOTAL ISOLATION !!!!-NEVER to see daylight AGAIN…
What they Are Doing IS TREASON AGAINST OUR COUNTRY & CITIZENS!!!!!!
Thank you Senator Graham for putting the citizens of this Country first!! Please keep up the good fight and know you are appreciated and we have your back!! Sincerely, DJ
I like what senator Graham is presenting. It beats the heck out of standing around giving lip service and nothing more. Go senator Graham!
This horde of invaders, would not be here, if we went for the throat of one individual and cut his juice off and that is George Soros. The more I hear and read about him, he is a terrorist, who disrupts countries with his money distributed to organizations, which go to any end to bring down countries, organizations, elections and most of all feeding the Democrats to fulfill their agenda with his money. Soros, has to be stopped and if not, it will continue with no peace for those who want to clean out the swamp, it will continue. Senator Graham, is doing an outstanding job, but one must clean out those RINO’s that insist on supporting the Leftists, with their traitor positions to defeat President Trump. We have to fight and make sure that Senator Graham gets all our help to clean out the swamp.
Thank You Senator Graham for ALL your hard work, knowledge and experiences to create Good
Sound Laws, Procedures, and Processes that
Will help initiate and assist Democrats in the
House to create Immigration Policies and Law
for Our Country that will Work and be adhered
to.
As long as the Dems are in control of the House they will not cooperate with the Senate. So lets continue building the wall to prevent at least the drug smuggles and coyotes that cross where border walls are needed. We’re fighting these people and politicians who are loyal to their party first before America.
gun towers work,and a lot less paper work.