House Speaker John Boehner unsure Congress can do anything on border crisis this month
Source: Reuters
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday expressed doubts Congress would agree by the end of this month on an emergency response to the crisis involving an influx of thousands of child migrants at the U.S. southern border.
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, has requested $3.7 billion in emergency funds to bolster border security and speed up deportations. Boehner said the Republican-run House of Representatives had been discussing the matter all week but had not come to any decisions on its response to Obamas request.
Many Republicans want to use the emergency funding request to change a 2008 law that gives some immigrant children more protections from deportation. They, and Obama, think that the law might be encouraging Central American children to flock to the United States illegally.
Boehner, at his weekly news conference, complained that comments by some Democrats ruling out changes to the 2008 law had made the issue much more difficult to deal with, and darkened the outlook for bipartisan agreement.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/17/house-speaker-john-boehner-unsure-congress-can-do-anything-on-border-crisis-this-month/
Fearless
(18,421 posts)I'm sorry? Demo-what?
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Are you suggesting the President violate the law?
Fearless
(18,421 posts)thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)I'm shocked Orangutan Boner even bothered to have a news conference.............
rtracey
(2,062 posts)If you cant help, then shut the F' up and let someone who can help, help. I fully support the President on this one.....
albino65
(484 posts)They'd have it approved before lunch and spent by suppertime. They are the most hypocritical assholes in existence.
meegbear
(25,438 posts)whine, bitch, moan ....
LittleWoman
(260 posts)Skip your month long August vacation and do some actual work for a change!
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)It would violate your instructions from the K Bros. Money always more important than children.
Recently someone sent me a posting along the lines of the man the far right christians believe in once fled across borders to avoid violence. Herod wanted to kill Jesus. The family went to Egypt. Did they have food, water, shelter? Was Joseph able to work? Did people scream at them?
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)or, as an alternative, they could vote to repeal Obamacare.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)You're breaking records ..worse Congress in history.
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)Be sure all those Teabaggers know the republican controlled House of Representatives has no interest in helping them with their panic at the border.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)and how awful Obama is.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)We citizens should sue his ass for not doing his job.
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)It is once again the "do nothing" Congress not at work.
The loudest cries for action are coming from the tea baggers. If this is so important to them then I would think they would forgo their vacation to get something done.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)So, the Preseident is asking for funds to do exactly what the Republicans want done, and they are saying no? Doesn't this mean that we will have to keep the people here longer, and have more get in? Isn't that what Boehner claimed to want stopped?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)BTW, that's Nancy Pelosi preparing to hand over the Speaker's gavel in 2011. Notice, she isn't whining.
She's said Boehner only cries for himself, and she cries about other people. I'll miss her when she retires.
kiranon
(1,727 posts)September can't do it then; October - too close to elections to do any work; November waiting for election results; December - another month for holidays and nothing gets done in January everyone knows that and so on. It's the Republican mantra for doing nothing ever.