We need
to turn them away.Dem
Warns: Flood of Refugees INVADING Southern Border
(WOAI) – Border Congressman Henry
Cuellar (D-Laredo) says as the U.S. debates the fate of Syrian refugees, the
refugees are coming and will continue to arrive on our southern border, and
rather than debate, the country needs to start deciding how to handle the
coming flood of desperate people from the Middle East, News Radio 1200 WOAI
reports.
“They are going to try to short
circuit that wait of 18 to 24 months,” Cuellar told News Radio 1200 WOAI in an
exclusive interview. “They will come in here, make their claim, and if
there is nothing to hold them, they will be released.”
Two groups of Syrians, mainly
families, have already done that, arriving in the U.S. in the Laredo area and
then immediately presenting themselves to Border Patrol officers, surrendering,
and asking for political asylum.
The standard operating procedure
right now is to place them into the family detention centers in Dilley or
Karnes City, but many are released on bonds or on ankle monitors after a few
months in the facilities. And Cuellar points out that once they are
released, the demands of governor like Gov. Abbott that they not be housed in
Texas are meaningless. They have the right to settle whenever in the U.S.
they want, as long as they present themselves for immigration hearings, which
could be set for several years in the future.
Cuellar says that has the effect of
scrapping all of the talk of a lengthy wait and ‘vetting period’ for people
seeking refugee status.
His suggestion, working together
with Mexico to make it harder for refugees, many of whom enter the Americas in
Central America, to make it to the U.S.
“Mexico stopped 174,000 people last
year that were coming into the U.S, and they did it only with $80 million,” he
said. The Middle Eastern refugees are
joining a flood of individuals from the increasingly failed states of Central
America who are trying to get into the U.S. The Border Patrol reported a
spike in unaccompanied minors and families from El Salvador, Guatemala, and
Honduras entering the U.S. in September and October by using the same
method…surrendering to the Border Patrol and requesting political asylum.
Add to that huge numbers of Cubans
who are afraid that the new relationship between Havana and Washington will
scrap their traditional right to political asylum in the U.S. and the rush of
Middle Eastern refugees fleeing war at home, and Cuellar says the U.S. needs to
stop arguing possibilities, and start taking action to deal with the flood of
immigrants who are on the way.
http://www.woai.com/articles/woai-local-news-sponsored-by-five-119078/cuellar-syrians-already-entering-the-us-14160150/
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