David Gregory Reminds Rep. Labrador It's Bush-Era Law Preventing Deportations Of Central Americans
David Gregory Reminds Rep. Labrador It's Bush-Era Law Preventing Deportations Of Central Americans
By Heather July 6, 2014 8:40 am -
When Rep. Raul Labrador attempted to lay all of the blame on the current crisis with minors flooding in from Central America, he was reminded that it was a Bush-era law that is allowing them to stay here.
The thing that the administration needs to do is immediately deport these families, these children. I know it sounds harsh. I know it sounds difficult, but they're creating a crisis at this time that is actually going to harm these children. […]
GREGORY: But for those who are hearing you and saying but you do sound harsh, that as a practical matter deporting these individuals, many of them children to get back to Central America may not be realistic, nor is it in keeping with what it means to be America and for a lot of American families who think if they're fleeing something so awful, we've got to find a way to deal with this in a morehumanitarian way, just as we have 11 million or so immigrants who are here now who have to be dealt with in a way other than just deporting them.
LABRADOR: You know, Americans are great people. I think they're willing to deal with the 11 million people if we feel that there's going to be border security. But right now the frustration you see at Murrieta and other, the frustration you see all throughout the United States is that they feel this administration is doing nothing about border security. […]
GREGORY: First of all, the frustration is not just with the administration, right? It is Congress, it is House Republicans who blocked immigration reform, that came over from the Senate, that you opposed.
But it is also the issue of the law that is the law of the land, that was passed under the previous president, that makes it illegal to treat those illegal migrants coming from Central America as opposed to Mexico.
They have to be brought in and detained and put through these proceedings. That is the law that Congress passed.
LABRADOR: That's a good point. In 2008 that law was passed, and I think we need to change that law. We shouldn't be treating the children from Central America any different than we treat the children from Mexico and Canada. And I think that is something that I will join the administration in doing. I don't think we should be doing that.
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I don't believe we can be fixed either..
