Editorial: House Republicans' border security bill misses chance to fix real immigration challenges (via latimesopinion)
the U.S.-Mexico border is teeming with criminals wearing backpacks full of fentanyl, drug cartels patrolling the area and impoverished migrants invading the United States. It’s no wonder that such an exaggerated vision of the border has failed to produce viable legislation to fix the nation’s broken immigration system. The latest bill passed by House Republicans to reform immigration and enhance border security seeks to close off the border to migrants and asylum seekers.
It’s an unrealistic strategy for dealing with the historic number of people around the world in search of jobs, shelter and safety. The conditions that many of these migrants are fleeing are so harsh that they will risk their lives to come to the U.S. to find the jobs. A failure to acknowledge this economic reality has doomed past efforts to control migration, endangering migrants’ lives and overwhelming border authorities.is an amalgamation of three separate bills.
Instead, the resulting bill proposes a variety of measures that would severely curtail the right of migrants to request asylum, roll back protections for migrant children detained by border authorities, cut off funding to nonprofit organizations that help newly arrived migrants, increase Border Patrol staffing, add 200 miles of border wall, criminalize overstaying a visitor’s visa, and limit the ability of the president to offer temporary stays for humanitarian reasons, among other enforcement...
Several measures contained in the bill would violate the human rights of migrants in direct contradiction of national and international laws and agreements designed to protect them.the result of a lawsuit, outlines protections for migrant minors by dictating the conditions for their treatment, detention and release. This bill would allow minors to be detained with their family members indefinitely, instead of the maximum 20 days under the agreement.
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