Trump rants that immigration laws are ‘insane’ and must be fixed now by Congress

President Trump ranted Thursday morning on Twitter during a week when lawmakers were back in their districts facing constituents that they needed to pass ‘smart, fast and reasonable’ immigration laws now.

Trump has sent mixed signals to Congress on immigration in the last month, telling legislators that he wants changes to the system and then directing them to wait until after the November election when the make-up of the Senate could be more beneficial to Republicans.

Lawmakers attempted on two occasions in recent weeks to pass bills in the House that would have fulfilled all of Trump’s immigration demands. Without the support of Democrats or hard-right conservatives, though, the legislation fell short.

President Trump ranted Thursday morning on Twitter during a week when lawmakers were back in their districts facing constituents that they needed to pass ‘smart, fast and reasonable’ immigration laws now

Trump has sent mixed signals to Congress on immigration in the last month, telling legislators that he wants changes to the system and then directing them to wait until after the November election when the make-up of the Senate could be more beneficial to Republicans

Trump, who has made immigration reform the centerpiece of his election message this year, seemingly directed Congress to try again on Thursday.

‘Congress must pass smart, fast and reasonable Immigration Laws now. Law Enforcement at the Border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane,’ he said. ‘When people, with or without children, enter our Country, they must be told to leave without our…Country being forced to endure a long and costly trial.’

Trump said Congress needs to [t]ell the people “OUT,” and they must leave, just as they would if they were standing on your front lawn. Hiring thousands of “judges” does not work and is not acceptable – only Country in the World that does this!’

Making himself clear in an all-caps tweet he said: ‘Congress – FIX OUR INSANE IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW!’ 

Democrats also want the administration to be able to process illegal immigrants flooding the border more swiftly. But unlike the administration, they believe the correct response to the problem is to hire more judges to adjudicate their claims.

In an effort to move people out more quickly, the administration decided to give Central American migrant parents the option to repatriate themselves with their children. Otherwise, the administration says they will have to separate them from their children after 20 days. 

The parents, who are part of a group of about 2,000 who were separated from their children at the border, are being presented with a document called the Separated Parents Removal Form from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The form gives parents the choice to ‘reunite with my children’ only if they agree to be repatriated to their country of citizenship, according the document, which was obtained by NBC News.

They face the stark choice even if they are in the process of seeking asylum in the U.S. 

Immigrants wait to head to a nearby Catholic Charities relief center after being dropped off at a bus station shortly after release from detention through “catch and release” immigration policy on June 17, 2018 in McAllen, Texas

The other option is to choose to their country ‘without my minor children.’

Those immigrants who are being asked to sign the form are not given the choice of remaining in the U.S. with their children while they pursue asylum cases.

Some of the immigrants have already passed an initial phase of asylum screening. With many of them haling from high-crime Central American nations where they can seek asylum by trying to establish a ‘credible fear’ of persecution.

IT’S YOUR CALL: Immigrants are being presented the choice of either leaving the country with their children or leaving without them

‘We are seeing cases where people who have passed credible fear interviews and have pending asylum claims are being given this form,’  ACLU immigration lawyer Lee Gelernt told the publication.

According to the form, parents must  agree to the terms ‘affirmatively, knowingly, and voluntarily.’

Agents are being instructed to read the form to immigrants in a language they can understand.

By relinquishing an asylum claim, they are giving up a path to gain status to remain in the country. 

There is a long legal backlog for immigration courts to hear asylum claims on a case-by-case basis.

The policy applies to families separated before Trump issued a June 20 order under considerable outside pressure to stop the policy of separating parents from children.

That came under the existing ‘zero tolerance’ policy announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and implemented at the border. 

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