Amy Goodman
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"We Should Be Protecting Children": Rep. Gutiérrez Supports Funds for Humanitarian Crisis at Border
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July 11, 2014
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President Obama has called for close to $3.7 billion to address the humanitarian crisis unfolding at the United StatesMexico border where more than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been detained since October. Part of the money will be used to speed up deportations as Republicans say they will only support the plan if it puts more emphasis on immediate repatriation. They want to change a 2008 immigration law which originally passed with bipartisan support that would let the United States deport children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as fast as it does those from Mexico. "I think it is shameful that in the Congress of the U.S. we see members of Congress engendering and creating fear of children," says Democratic Rep. Luis Gutiérrez of Illinois, who supports Obama's Emergency Supplemental Bill. "We should be protecting children, not creating fear of them."
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