Party Leadership Meets With Congressman Morgan Luttrell to Discuss the Border and Immigration Issues
August 10, 2024 | Montgomery County, TX
Members of Montgomery County Republican Party leadership met with Congressman Morgan Luttrell (CD 8) on Tuesday to discuss immediate action steps needed to secure the border and deal with the flow of illegals forced on Texans and the nation by the Biden-Harris Administration.
The meeting included County Chair and State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) Member for Senate District 4, Gwen Withrow; Vice Chairman Jon Bouché; SREC Member for Senate District 4 and Precinct 27 Chair, Dale Inman; and Attorney Art Aguilar.
Congressman Luttrell asked Vice Chairman Bouché to distill the discussion into the following action steps and talking points for use in upcoming Congressional meetings with Democrats to negotiate a border crisis response to protect Americans.
Pass H.R.2, which is the most comprehensive border security bill that has been put forth in our lifetime.
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients need a sponsor and must go through the immigration process just like everyone else. They should not be allowed to cut the line as allowing them to do so will just attract more people coming here illegally with their young children.
Streamline the immigration process and expedite for trades and professions that are in high demand in the U.S. The U.S. Government should partner with private organizations to identify which trades and professions are needed and those private organizations would have to sponsor incoming workers to meet those specific needs.
Any non-U.S. citizen who works with the U.S. Armed services abroad will receive preferential treatment if they have the proper documentation from the armed services to prove that they served. We should also waive the “Safe Third Country” principle for people in this category who are seeking asylum and wanting to become U.S. citizens.
Serving a full four-year term in the U.S. armed services should qualify a person for citizenship. Those who serve two-year terms who have been honorably discharged can apply for U.S. citizenship and go through the process and be given consideration for their service during processing. However, those who are dishonorably discharged, medically discharged, or have a criminal history which includes any felony conviction will not receive the armed services exception and may be considered for immediate deportation.
Emergency Rooms and other medical facilities within the United States and its territories should be required to collect biometric information of all undocumented people seeking medical care. Those people should be referred to and held until their immigration status is determined. If it is determined that they are here illegally, the cost of the medical care they received should be billed to their country of origin as well as the cost to process and deport them back to their country. Medical expenses of undocumented people should not be the responsibility of American taxpayers. The costs of uncompensated medical care as provided to undocumented people should be classified as foreign aid.
People with no identification arriving at our southern border should be immediately turned back. Those with identification from any country other than Mexico who are seeking asylum should also be turned back at the border under the “Safe Third Country” principle. Those who are identified as Mexican citizens may be considered for asylum under the “Safe Third Country” principle, provided that they meet the guidelines. However, if those people subsequently fail to appear for their court date, they are to be located and deported immediately and they will not be eligible for re-entry into the U.S.
Unaccompanied children should not be admitted to the U.S. Since they are in Mexico and coming to our border, they are Mexico’s to deal with. Those children are either Mexican citizens or they are in Mexico illegally and Mexico should not be allowed to deport those illegals and the costs associated with them into the U.S. Those children are there at the border because of Mexico’s failure to secure its own border and the American taxpayer should not be on the hook for that.
Birthright citizenship should not be allowed when both parents are in the U.S. illegally. In those cases, the parents and the child should be deported and all medical expenses as well as the cost to process and deport them should be billed to their country of origin and calculated as part of that country’s foreign aid.
Companies employing undocumented workers (i.e., illegals) should be exposed and heavily fined.
Any illegal who has voted or is registered to vote should be deported immediately and will be permanently ineligible to re-apply for US citizenship or re-entry to the U.S.
Vice Chairman Bouché remarked, “Illegals voting in our elections is a threat to our country and it is directly facilitated by our open borders. But Democrats have shown time and time again that they are not at all interested in closing the border because they view voter fraud as a feature of our illegal immigration situation instead of a threat.”
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