Border Funding Request Takes Shape in House
House Republicans could by the week’s end unveil their legislative response to the president’s $3.7 billion request to bolster resources at the southwest border — a response that’s likely to cost less and incorporate policy riders sure to rile up Democrats on the left.
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, the chairwoman of a special GOP working group convened by Speaker John A. Boehner to make policy recommendations on the child migrant border surge, told reporters Tuesday morning the group is pushing for increased border security funding, the use of National Guard troops on the border and the installation of more immigration judges to preside over deportation hearings and asylum requests.
With a formal report expected to be filed late Tuesday or early Wednesday, Granger also said the group supported tweaking a 2008 trafficking law to allow all unaccompanied minors apprehended at the border to choose to return to their home countries rather than await trial to be deported, a right currently afforded only to children from countries contiguous to the United States. . . .
Why not aircraft carriers and military cargo planes to bring back the poor endangered kids from such places as Somalia and Bangladesh? Of course all this is absurd. I have heard numerous reports where these 'kids,' often including mothers and working-age male adults, are just routinely walking across the border and stepping onto one of a line of awaiting buses, as if they were going to a high school football game. First, they should not be allowed to walk across the border into the USA. If Mexico is happy to be their way-station, fine, they can stay there instead. Second, we need to push for real border security until we can vote out these federal open-borders occupation governments.
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