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Ted Cruz to Introduce First GOP Bill To Keep Migrant Families Together: All Americans Are Rightly Horrifiedby Ken Meyer | 7:39 pm, June 18th, 2018
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is bringing emergency legislation before Congress tonight in order to alter national immigration laws as President Donald Trump demands.
The president and his administration took a lot of heat on Monday for falsely insisting that the current policy of separating migrant families at the U.S. Southern border is actually a result of nonexistent Democratic laws. Amid this call from the White House for congressional action, Cruz is set to present the Protect Kids and Parents Act, a bill that explicitly says immigrant parents are allowed to stay with their kids.
The bill proposes that the number of immigration judges be doubled to 750, and requires asylum cases to be adjudicated in a two-week period. It also forbids the breakup of illegal immigrant families provided there is no record of aggravated criminal conduct or threat of harm to the children.
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, Cruz said. The answer is not what congressional Democrats are proposing: simply releasing illegal aliens and returning to the failed policy of catch and release. Rather, we should fix the backlog in immigration cases, remove the legal barriers to swift processing, and resolve asylum cases on an expedited basis.
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Ted Cruz to Introduce First GOP Bill To Keep Migrant Families Together: 'All Americans Are... (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jun 2018
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Trek4Truth
(515 posts)1. FUCK YOU CRUZ and your "illegal alien" ...they are refugees.
The 1980's called Cruz, and it wants it's slur back.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)2. Cruz is doing it as a political move rather than as a humanitarian measure
But whatever works, I don't care what his motive is.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)3. Its nothing but a ploy,
he's as humane as a dog turd.
Stuart G
(38,434 posts)4. Yes, it is a ploy to get Cruz reelected. He has a tough election coming up.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)6. The only way we humans can
win, is if he and his ilk are all voted out.
kentuck
(111,103 posts)5. This is a deadly issue for Cruz...
Representing a border state with a name like Cruz could be a devastating blow if he went along with Trump and Sessions. They painted him into a corner.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)7. lip service. the zodiac killer has no empathy. nt
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)8. Ted Cruz Was Born In Canada TO A Non-citizen Father
And a US citizen mother. He has also opposed giving the Dreamers a path to US citizenship.
Never forget it. No matter how much posing hes doing right now, hes the same old Ted Cruz.