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Sen. Portman visits southern border; calls for bipartisan action
Sen. Rob Portman
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) joined a delegation led by the Senate Judiciary Committee to visit the southern border this week.
They were joined at the border by Vice President Mike Pence. The delegation toured the new Donna Processing Facility where families and unaccompanied children are being processed, and the McAllen Border Patrol Station, where single men and the women are being processed. He toured the facilities and spoke to officials and migrants, and attended a roundtable discussion with Border Patrol agents and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leadership on the ground.
He released the following statement:
“It should now be clear to everyone that we have a crisis on our southern border," Portman said. "This trip reinforced for me that the situation is dire and Congress needs to take bipartisan action now to alleviate the crisis. I saw how the system is being overwhelmed and how important it is to provide funding immediately for humanitarian assistance. I saw more than 1000 people, including parents and children together, and unaccompanied children, at one processing facility and hundreds of single men at a second facility. I was able to speak with some of the parents and children, to hear more about why they had come to the border and the dangers they faced on the journey. I was also able to get a firsthand briefing from the officials on the ground who are dealing with the crisis.
“I believe our Customs and Border Protection officials on the ground are doing the best they can in an impossible situation," Portman said. "The unprecedented influx of tens of thousands of border crossings every week, more than half of which are now families with children, has strained the existing infrastructure and pulled between 40 and 60 percent of the border patrol agents off the border to be able to deal with the huge processing and humanitarian challenge. This takes border patrol away from their fundamental task of stopping illegal immigration and illegal drugs, including the crystal meth and heroin that is devastating my state of Ohio.
“Because of the clear humanitarian crisis, I advocated for the administration’s request for an additional $4.6 billion in federal funding for humanitarian assistance that Congress finally approved last month. Congress should have acted sooner, but I was able to see firsthand how those funds are now being used to add needed processing space. Yesterday’s trip made it clear that Congress must now do more to reduce the incentives in our current laws and rules that encourage human traffickers bring families and children to the border, particularly from Central America.
“I return to Washington more convinced than ever that we need new laws to address three fundamental problems that, if not addressed, will continue to draw unprecedented numbers of people to the border, allow migrants to continue to be exploited by human smugglers and put in dangerous situations, and overwhelm our system.
"We must fix our broken asylum laws and work with the United Nations on a refugee alternative where people apply outside of our country, we must overturn the parts of court rulings that necessitate releasing people into the United States if they are accompanied by a child, and we must permit the return of unaccompanied children to their families in their home countries. These measures, in combination with more assistance from Mexico and more effective aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, will substantially stem the flow and allow our legal immigration system to work again. I will redouble my efforts to work with Democrats and Republicans on bipartisan solutions to deal with these issues to alleviate the very real crisis at the border.”
A video can be viewed at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImCye73VLHI&feature=youtu.be
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"19 MS-13 gang members indicted in 'medieval-style' California slayings were in country illegally, officials say" - FOX News headline by Travis Fedschun and Fox News' Robert Gearty and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Matthew
7/17/2019 12:55:00 PM
David, you are obviously not referring to Golf courses. They are exempt from immigration laws, Believe Me!
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JohnT
7/15/2019 9:39:00 AM
"...protesters demonstrating outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility last week pulled down the American flag and flew the flag of Mexico in its place. Crews in Aurora, Colorado, restored the American flag Friday evening. The protesters also removed a "Blue Lives Matter" flag, honoring law enforcement, spray-painted it with the words "Abolish ICE," then raised the flag upside-down, on a pole next to the Mexican flag, local media reported." - Gregg Re, FOX News. I'm not sure of the significance of the Mexican Flag in the current immigration issues, but the open borders protesters let it be known they don't like ICE or the U.S..
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Matthew
7/14/2019 9:27:00 PM
Enforce the existing laws when employers hire undocumented workers. Toss CEO's into jail and clawback their illegally gained profits.The 1986 Immigration laws are NOT enforced. Until you enforce the existing employment laws, cheap labor will continue to flood the US. More laws will not fix the problem.
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David Mayer
7/14/2019 4:20:00 PM
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