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Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Cuellar: Syrians Already Entering the U.S., Plan Needed Now

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.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Seems to me any Syrian can claim political asylum from either and/or both sides in the conflict! My big question is why are they not seeking refugee status in their Muslim brothers countries! Simple, they, their 'brothers' don't want them either or they are on a jihad of not weapons but by migration and slowly take over other countries by population or economic collapse!

Anonymous said...

No doubt his boy Bammy will tell him "blame it on Bush".

Anonymous said...

It is going to be the American patriots who defend our country from these evil invaders since the federal government will not do it.