O’Rourke: ‘I Do Not Think’ Law Making Illegal Border Crossings a Criminal Offense Should Be Repealed

[libertybele]

??? So his policy is supposedly different than Castro's but he obviously doesn't think that illegals should be detained/retained in Mexico....children in cages falling victim to criminals.  Does this azzhat have any idea of the criminal element that these kids are exposed to on the way here??  I would love to know how he would plan to rectify the influx of illegals??   What's his solution?  IF he indeed doesn't want to repeal the law making illegal border crossings a criminal offense, then why is he against a wall?

I would love to submit those questions to the DEM debate!   

O’Rourke: ‘I Do Not Think’ Law Making Illegal Border Crossings a Criminal Offense Should Be Repealed

..........Host Jake Tapper asked O’Rourke, “Your fellow Texan and 2020 candidate Julian Castro's immigration plan calls for the repeal of a law that makes it a crime to enter the United States illegally. Do you agree with that? That the law be repealed?”

.......“I don't know if it should be repealed, Jake,” O’Rourke initially told Tapper. “But I think that we should acknowledge that most of those who are arriving at our border right now, especially from Central America, are at their most desperate and vulnerable moment. They pose no threat or harm to this country.

“And we’ve proposed a family case management program, so that they are not held in detention, at a fraction of the cost and at an improved rate of showing for their court date or their appointments with ICE officials. We help them to follow our own laws, and we treat them like the human beings that they really are,” he said.

“So, policies of caging kids or separating families or metering, where we have migrants and asylum seekers wait in Mexico, where they are prey to criminals and to those who would take advantage of the most vulnerable, that cannot be this country. We have to live our values and ensure that our laws reflect our reality and our true interests in this country,” O’Rourke said..........

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/craig-millward/orourke-i-do-not-think-law-making-illegal-border-crossings-criminal

[austingirl]

Robert Francis is a dunce.

[txradioguy]

Does this azzhat have any idea of the criminal element that these kids are exposed to on the way here??

You would think he'd have a clue having represented El Paso.  But as someone has already pointed out "Gringo" is a dunce.