Bush-era law requires us to slow-walk deportations

[DreamSmoker]

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Democrats noted that a 2008 law requires the administration to offer extensive and time-consuming procedural protections to the young illegal immigrants. "In 2008, then-President George Bush signed the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act," Rep. Bennie Thompson, ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Homeland Security, said at a hearing. "The law recognizes that special care is demanded when dealing with the young and vulnerable. Under these laws, the Border Patrol is required to take unaccompanied children who are not from Mexico into custody, screen them and transfer them to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement."

http://washingtonexa...article/2550147

William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008

http://www.state.gov...laws/113178.htm

[Louisiana1976]

1. The kids crossing the border are refugees and should be dealt with according to the

Wilberforce act. They should be allowed to stay.