The President’s dangerous rhetoric referring to people seeking asylum as an ‘invasion’ deeply misrepresents the situation and needlessly ramps up tension. 2/6
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I continue to strongly question the deployment of U.S. military servicemembers at our southern border. The decision to extend this deployment to the end of January 2019 is not a responsible use of DOD resources and is the completely wrong approach to the situation. 1/6pic.twitter.com/l8J9cRHXNw
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There's no question that we face a challenge with a rise in the number of people seeking asylum. However, the response should not be deploying troops to our border, but instead increasing resources to process asylum applications, including additional judges & asylum officers. 3/6
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The continued practice of detaining asylum seekers is inhumane. It’s abhorrent that there are over 40,000 people in custody in detention centers across the US when we know alternatives to detention are proven to be effective and drastically less costly. 4/6
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Directing military servicemembers to ‘harden the border’ and provide vague support to Customs and Border Protection misses the point entirely. These people are fleeing violence and persecution to seek asylum. They are turning themselves in, not circumventing our laws. 5/6
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This continued expansion of the use of Department of Defense resources and personnel to fulfill the misguided immigration agenda of this administration, which is not part of the mission of the DOD, must come to an end. 6/6 Full statement
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I appreciate your stance on this issue...more people will be in need of asylum as climate change worsens, protect those who need refuge now, but also look to the future and sign on to the
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Our service members job is to protect our boarders. Those boarders are under an onslaught of people waiving their own flags and subversively crossing into America. You spin this your way but that is an invasion. We need troops there to stop them.
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They should be seeking asylum in Mexico, as the first safe country they fled to. That they are not reveals this "asylum" claim as BS, which you perpetuate
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