Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid wants the government to provide certain illegal immigrants with government-funded lawyers.
“Under current U.S. law, there is no right to appointed counsel in non-criminal immigration removal proceedings, even if the person in question is a child. Imagine that,” Reid said on the Senate floor Thursday. “The humanitarian crisis at our doorstep demands that we, as Americans, affirm our fundamental values of protection and due process.”
Thursday Reid introduced legislation that would provide “vulnerable” illegal immigrants, like children and abuse victims in removal proceedings, with lawyers — at the “government’s expense” — to help navigate immigration court.
The bill, called the Fair Day in Court for Kids Act, is co-sponsored by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
Senate Democrats’ push to grant illegal immigrants free lawyers comes amid an ongoing surge of illegal immigration at the U.S. -Mexico border. In the past couple years tens of thousands of Central American unaccompanied minors and “family units” have been apprehended at the border and then released by the Obama administration into the interior of the U.S. to await immigration hearings.
Immigration activists and Democrats like Reid have blamed the border surge on the conditions in the Central Americans’ home countries. They argue that violence is spurring the northward flow and that the migrants are refugees who should be granted safe haven in the U.S.
“That’s why you see these women and children fleeing for their lives,” Reid said Thursday. “But it’s not just murder that these desperate people are trying to escape. People in these countries are imperiled by high rates of human trafficking, drug trafficking, sexual assaults, and widespread corruption. It is an understatement to say that these are not safe places to live.”
Republicans and immigration enforcement agents have pointed to the Obama administration’s lax immigration enforcement policies and amnesty programs as an enticement for illegal immigration.
Makes me wonder if ol Blackeye maybe wants truck loads of illegals to work in the soon to be developed uranium mines. Sure would save a lot of money on all that expensive safety equipment. The Chinese and the Russians won’t care if their “employees” fall over dead from the poison dust….then they don’t have to pay em. And when they do fall over dead, well, they can always get more.
Oh yeah, one thing I forgot. The illegals families. Half of em live in other countries and the half that live in the States don’t speak English so good. So there won’t be anyone around to complain when the illegals start “disappearing.”
Harry Reid neeeds to use HIS OWN MONEY to pay for these
government-funded lawyers, NOT OUR MONEY.
SEND THE IMMIGRANTS BACK AND KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OUR $$.
“Under current U.S. law, there is no right to appointed counsel in non-criminal immigration removal proceedings,…”
“… non-criminal immigration…”???
That’s an oxymoron, @sswipe.
They’re criminals by the mere fact of being here illegally.
He’s a criminal for just saying that
That is , with the way they are treating our 1st amendment rights
They’re not “government-funded lawyers”, they’re taxpayer-funded lawyers, and the taxpayers don’t want the stinkin’ wetbacks here in the first place.
Weren’t we all told that this POS was “stepping down”
Or whatever phrase they use when getting caught and don’t want to face the music
Hey .. Who ever dotted this ol codgers eye
Would ya do us all the favor and dot it again ?
Thanks , from we the people
Dirty Harry is at it again. Like tc said, he must need them illegals for the uranium mines.
““Under current U.S. law, there is no right to appointed counsel in non-criminal immigration removal proceedings, even if the person in question is a child. Imagine that,” Reid said on the Senate floor Thursday. “The humanitarian crisis at our doorstep demands that we, as Americans, affirm our fundamental values of protection and due process.””
Unfrigginbelievable……….
Can we just skip the black eye and just hang the son of a bitch?
I was hiking near the las vegas swamp wash refuge park one day.
I actually ran into a Harry Reed.
It actually kind of looks like a cattail reed.
Except it has little thorns on it that look like barbed pricks.
Plus it smells like baby sh! t.
Not to pleasant for a hike with the children.
Plus the Chinese guy that kicked his Harry ass was way beyond a black belt in Kung fu.
He was a master above that.
He had a Kung Fu exercise belt mastery.
They call it the black eye pirate dragon technique.
LOL @ “black eye pirate dragon technique.”