President Barack Obama has conned GOP legislators and the media into
blaming a 2008 anti-trafficking law for his failure to block the growing
wave of migrants now crossing the Texas border, according to a new
legal analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies. The 2008 law does’t limit Obama’s ability to block the wave of families, working-age youths and children, says the new report. The juvenile illegal immigrants are voluntarily crossing the border
to find jobs and live with parents already in the United States, and so
they aren’t covered by the 2008 anti-trafficking law, said Jon Feere, a
legal analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which
supports a reduction in the annual inflow of 1 million immigrants and
800,000 guest-workers. The debate over changing the law “should not become a distraction
from addressing the bigger problem of lax enforcement [by the
administration]… which continues to encourage people to come to the
United States illegally,” he said...more
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