PHOTO: Mainly Adult Males Invading America To Take Jobs And Get Taxpayer Funded Benefits
Democrat-Backed Catch-And-Release Loopholes
Created A Border Crisis
CRISIS AT OUR BORDER: Recent illegal
immigration data show the urgent need to address the crisis at our border
sparked by catch-and-release loopholes backed by Congressional Democrats.
· The surge of
aliens from Central America crossing our borders, thanks to our outdated laws
demanding catch-and-release, has created a dire crisis at our border.
o Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
apprehended 94,285 Central Americans as part of family units at the border last
year, 99 percent of whom remain in the Country today.
o CBP apprehended 31,754 unaccompanied
minors from the Northern Triangle of Central America last year, 98 percent of
whom remain in the Country today.
· The number of
illegal alien family units we can remove in a year is roughly equivalent to the
number that cross our borders in 48 hours.
DEMOCRAT-BACKED LOOPHOLES FORCE THE RELEASE
OF APPREHENDED ALIENS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA: Congressional Democrats helped
create loopholes that make it nearly impossible to remove many illegal aliens.
· Outrageous
catch-and-release laws and court rulings have resulted in de facto immunity for
illegal alien minors and adults from Central America who arrive at the border
with them.
· Sen. Dianne
Feinstein pushed the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, which
prevents the speedy return of unaccompanied minors from non-contiguous
countries.
· Judicial
orders interpreting a Clinton-era consent decree, known as the Flores Settlement
Agreement, hinder the Government’s ability to detain and remove alien family
units.
o The effect is that the Government is
forced to release entire family units into the interior of the United States,
after which they often fail to appear for their court hearings.
o Even if they do appear, it can take
years to reach an initial decision in their cases.
· Eighty percent
of aliens claiming a fear of return to their home country get through the
initial credible fear screening, but only 20 percent of those claiming asylum
end up being granted it.
o Regardless, 99 percent of asylum
seekers in family units are able to remain in the United States.
· Illegal
immigration has undergone a dramatic shift from what used to be mostly single
adults from Mexico to now Central American family units and unaccompanied
minors.
o In fiscal year 2000, 98 percent of
aliens apprehended by United States Border Patrol were from Mexico, but today
nearly 60 percent are from Central America.
OPEN BORDER OBSTRUCTIONISTS: Congressional
Democrats’ solution to the immigration crisis facing our Country has been
obstruction and insistence on open borders.
· Democrats
defend loopholes that allow minors from Central America, and all adults
traveling with them, to illegally cross our borders and remain while their
cases are processed.
· Democrats in
the House even opposed the Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act, which would
have helped remove criminal illegal alien gang members from our
communities.
· Earlier this
year, every single Democrat in the Senate signed up to cosponsor a radical,
open borders immigration bill by Sen. Feinstein to expand the existing
catch-and-release loopholes.
o Sen. Feinstein’s bill would
effectively give amnesty to illegal aliens caught within 100 miles of the
border, as long as they are accompanied by a minor.
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