…..it should perhaps be called the Immigration Lawyers Full Employment Act of 2014!
No time to say anything more, here it is at the Washington Post:
Funds would be allocated to send more immigration judges to the southern border, build additional detention facilities and add border patrol agents. The move is aimed at more quickly deporting the tens of thousands of women and children who have entered the country illegally across the border, most of them in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
“Today, I ask the Congress to consider the enclosed emergency supplemental appropriations request. . .to comprehensively address this urgent humanitarian situation,” President Obama said in a letter to House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio).
The administration’s comprehensive strategy represents a “super-aggressive deterrence and enforcement strategy,” a senior administration official told reporters, speaking on a conference call on condition of anonymity to provide more details.
Obama says he wants to deport them quickly! Sure he does.
See our tag clouds and note that ‘unaccompanied minors’ is growing larger by the hour it seems.