Manchin after border visit: 'Past time to do immigration reform'
Source: The Hill
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Thursday after visiting the U.S.-Mexico border that it is "past time" for Congress to address immigration reform, including a path to citizenship, and called the border surge a "crisis."
"It is beyond time, past time, to do immigration reform. Immigration reform should be a pathway to citizenship. People that have been here, they might have come here the wrong way but they came here for the right reason," Manchin said during a press conference.
"We have children that came here that have no other home but America.There should be a pathway for that, for our dreamers," he added.
Manchin and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) toured the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday, including taking a helicopter and boat tour with Customs and Border Protection. They also visited a Laredo, Texas, port of entry and met with migrant families.
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help us nuke the filibuster, because that is the only way we can get this achieved.
Just sayin'.
Too bad, after three days of not having her phone and not being able to charge it (because she was thrown in airport jail in solitary confinement), I could only talk to her for less than five minutes. Also, she kept saying in Mandarin "they are watching me" and that "she was terrified."
It wasn't an administrative problem. . .they didn't let her into the country.
Yes it is an immigration reform issue. No one should separate families at all and foreign spouses of American citizens should not be turned away at the border.
And the immigration attorney I have told me he could do nothing. And the representative I spoke to at USCIS said "she won't have a problem entering. Just write a letter to give the immigration officers explaining who she is and what she is planning to do. She has a visa and you as her husband. She will pass right through."
I do not want to sound flippant, but thank you for the empathy. The CBP protected the country from a 31 year old kindergarten teacher and an American citizen's spouse. But we can lock up people at the border with no problems, so separating an American from their spouse is easy.
BTW, according to her, she was subjected to anti-Chinese insults by the CBP officers, denied the ability to go the bathroom except when they told her, kept her in a room with a mattress that hadn't been cleaned in years, and since I was told I couldn't prove I was her husband, I had no right to speak to her (also being threatened with arrest because I was "tying up their lines with my [expletive]" and they "didn't appreciate that"
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As I said to my senator, this could be solved simply. Amend the law to state that if an American citizen has been married to a foreigner for at least five years (and can prove it), a visa to the US with intent of immigrating will be AUTOMATICALLY issued to the spouse, or any visa that the spouse has will be accepted at the border if proof can be given that the foreign spouse intends to immigrate.
I'm sure your family didn't have the proper paperwork when they came here. I know my father's side didn't when they came here in the 1820s because we still have all their paperwork. My mother's side (my mother was adopted by an Italian family) didn't in the 1890s. We are not, now, in the business of accepting foreigners. We are in the business of telling foreigners "no vacancy."
Also, on the plane, she told me when she got back home, that there was a Korean woman sitting next to her that was denied entry and kicked out, even though she had a valid work visa and a job in Seattle for Microsoft. She showed my wife the contract.
Green cards are not hard to get through marriage. They were made hard by the Orange Menace.
Please tell me your post isn't implying I am a terrible husband. Because you are the first person since it happened I told that hasn't told me that what they did was wrong, anti-American, unbelievable, or that "this needs to be changed." Your post seems to imply that what happened, and happens to a lot of people coming here in my wife's position, was justified and correct. I hope that wasn't your meaning. If it wasn't, please clarify. If it was, I am speechless.
