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The Hill
House GOP group
to recommend changes to immigration law
By Cristina Marcos and Peter Schroeder
07/14/14
Fresh off a trip to Guatemala and Honduras, a House GOP working group
on immigration will recommend Tuesday that the conference change a 2008
trafficking law to stop the thousands of immigrant children flooding
across the border.
Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), the working group’s leader, will argue that
child immigrants from Central America should be subject to the same
rules as those from Mexico. A source close to Granger said the group
will also advise that National Guard troops be sent to the border, a
longstanding demand from Republicans.
Granger will offer the presentation at a pivotal conference meeting
expected to signal the party's direction on the issue.
The 2008 law has emerged as the biggest sticking point between
Republicans and Democrats battling over President Obama’s $3.7 billion
request for supplemental border funding.
Under the statute, unaccompanied immigrant children from Mexico or
Canada must be screened within 48 hours and sent back unless they are
human trafficking victims or have claims for asylum. But children from
countries that don't border the U.S. must be turned over to the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and appear at an
immigration hearing, which takes more time.
More than 52,000 immigrant children have illegally crossed the border
as of the end of May, and many thousands more are expected
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