These are human beings. This is doing damage to our country. If we are truly committed to tackling this crisis on the southwest border and to ensuring a fair and efficient process for dealing with these kids. we need to begin with comprehensive immigration reform. If the previous question is defeated. we will offer H.R. 15. the House bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill. Only by fixing our broken immigration system can we begin to better allocate the resources where they are needed most. My bill provides a path forward for people already here so that their cases are no longer clogging our immigration courts and so that immigration officials can spend their time going after those who wish to do our Nation harm. It will provide green cards for thousands of Hondurans and El Salvadorans who have languished for over a decade under temporary status. and it adds the necessary due process protection for children on the border. A speaker on the side opposite brought up the issue of what caused this. What was the straw that broke the camels back? I will tell you what the straw is. Some of these children have waited 5 years. some of them have waited 8 years. and some of them have waited over a decade on the promises of this Congressand there is blame to go to both sidesto have comprehensive immigration reform. Then the Speaker who had promised earlier in the year to work with the President finally announced there would be no comprehensive immigration reform. That was the straw that broke the camels back because 55 percent of these children are coming to be with their families.
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