The humanitarian crisis at the southern border is spurring new legislation today called The HUMANE Act.
Texas US Senator John Cornyn says current laws dealing with migrants, families and unaccompanied children must be reformed to help them stay together and streamlined to help process them. “I will be introducing legislation that’s focused like a rifle shot on dealing with this crisis by refoming current laws dealing with unaccompanied children and migrants that are taken into custody.”
Cornyn says current laws dealing with migrants, families and unaccompanied children must be reformed to help them stay together and streamlined to help process them.
Cornyn says businesses are being affected by the border crisis. The HUMANE Act which would help by boosting the number of customs and border partrol agents. They’re needed to clear goods into the country but have been diverted to help ICE process migrants. “Which means they can’t clear the commerce coming across the border in a way that satisfies the businesss community.” Cornyn says one company has even started flying parts from Juarez to El Paso to circumvent the delay. “A flight of about eleven minutes they tell me, just because otherwise the parts that are important to their supply chain are parked on the bridges for up to fourteen to twenty-four hours.”
