I wholeheartedly agree that changes need to be made in the way we process and treat asylum seekers, especially children, but this proposal is NOT it. Every year people come to the United States seeking protection because they have suffered persecution or fear that they will suffer persecution. We have laws to protect them and used to have values that support them. We even have a statue welcoming immigrants on our shores. Remember her? Your grandparents might? Newsflash: Asylum seekers are here LEGALLY! Stop trying to demonize them. Stop separating their families. Stop putting them in cages and inhumane living situations. Newsflash: not ALL asylum seekers come from south of our borders! Why would someone from Somalia need to apply in Mexico first? Why would anyone? Yes, there is a big influx from the south of our border. I suggest if you want to fix it...figure out why & solve the problem. It will take diplomacy...so you’ll probably need to wait until after January 20th. Fix the process. Fix the problems. Do it humanely. If you need housing for unaccompanied minors, ask vetted Americans. I would be happy to open my home & welcome a child or two to my country. I would rather live next to a refugee family than one who thinks it’s okay to put kids in cages any day!!!

Absolutely NOT. This wholesale changes the definition of asylum. Making people wait in the dangerous areas they are fleeing from undermines the whole concept of asylum. People will die waiting. ABSOLUTELY NO.

jimK says all that needs to be said. Nope!

Forked tongue proposal........

I am very suspicious of many facets of this bill. The DHS would solely set standards for detention of minors?! The Justice Dept. appointing judges (far right, no doubt) to hear the cases of the illegal immigrants?! Lying Lindsey, I don’t trust that this bill reflects our American value system. Go back to the drawing board. Better yet, get off your dead trumplican asses and approve financial help to the suffering and dying Americans and small businesses that your deadbeat leader has abandoned to go golfing and lay waste to our country before the President elect gets inaugurated. You trumplicans are just as pathetic as he is.

Absolutely not. Refugees should not be required to apply for asylum in other countries first, we should not be increasing detention time for children, nor should we be granting DHS sole oversight on the conditions migrants are to be kept in. And that was just from reading the first few lines of the summary. Changes to the immigration system need to be made in bills separate from the ones dealing with the current crisis on the border. These are not difficult problems to solve, but they are if everyone treats them like a political football.

No how, no way, with this bill!

Lindsey Graham is for anything that Trump wants so of course he wants to pass this bill.. His head is so far up Trump's ass it's not funny!!

Pretty simple all we have to do as a nation... is to rejoin the UN Human Rights. And stop building Detention Centers and starting creating Respite Centers. You have the damn model, you have seen that it works in other nations so what is the hold up. ————- Education Now about their needs of the children living here in the US While I agree we need to focus our resources on providing in-person learning for preschool through second grade and at-risk students. I fail to see the logic behind continue to ask teachers to continue to host in person learning for students from 12-20 different households while banning them from spending a couple hours with their family on Thanksgiving. Newsflash: While children many pose minimal risks in spreading the virus there are adults working IN our schools who are NOT living in the same household! If a Thanksgiving gathering posed such a danger then why wasn’t there a mitigation plan put in place months ago! It is not like Thanksgiving or the virus suddenly appeared. We the people have been dealing with it for nearly a year. Piss poor planning from our leadership, should NOT mean me giving up the holiday with my family. Likewise, educators should not be shamed for not wanting to put their lives on the line in one breath, then told they need to limit all contact for the sake of our nation in the next! Especially, not when many of those leaders who campaigned on a promise to “crush the virus” are sunbathing on the beaches of Hawaii. Stop REACTING and start acting like the leaders you are handsomely paid to be! Is there a risk mitigation team or a plan for Christmas? Do you even have any idea of what an educators job function actually is?? Caveat: This opinion of utter disgust is NOT directed towards the state Governors who have worked their butts off with very little help. —- Furthermore... I am fairly confident that in order to stop the spread of the virus basic needs (as defined by the UN Human Rights Council) to include shelter are just as critical as wearing a mask and hand washing. Likewise, in addition to to treatments and vaccines people also will need things like warm clothes and food. The utter failure of our legislators to address the needs of the people, show they are focusing more on their own agenda than that of the people they represent.

I’m not really in support of any major bills that the GOP wants between now and next 1/21/21. They seem to want to leave this country in shambles so they can blame the democrats??!! Of course that makes no sense but that seems to be the plan. I want a relief deal put through ASAP! No strings from the GOP...

Senators, Defeat S. 1494 - The Secure and Protect Act! It allegedly attempts to help children from other countries who seek sanctuary in our country. I am greatly sickened by another Bill with a Descriptive Title that says the OPPOSITE of what it does. There isn't an ounce of compassion in the proposed legislation! The reality of the legislation is to expedite the rejection and rapid ejection of minor asylum seekers. It furthers efforts to force other countries like Mexico to hold those seeking asylum in the US. This bill Increases the time a child can be held in detention centers. The bill allows children to be DEPORTED within 48 hours of arrival into America - regardless of their country of origin. The bill removes the ability of States to require the licensing of Family Detention Centers. See the post by @Leslie with more details and source links: https://www.causes.com/bills/s1494-116/positions/c0937d2c-d82e-4970-bbba-72f9a6eab9ad There is no doubt we need Immigration Reform including but not limited to asylum reform. This bill, S. 1494, must be rejected as it is just a piecemeal attempt to ultimately stop all asylum seekers, simply by making it next to impossible for them to file for asylum which is one of Trump’s foremost misguided goals. Equally important it fails to address relations the US Government has with countries with cruel, corrupt and incompetent governments. (Note: I am disheartened by the confusing (intentionally deceptive?) way Causes juxtaposed the lede question and the legislation proposed by Linsey Graham. In reading responses it should be clear that some people only read the question and not the legislation and the background information. We all need to be very careful with formulating and answering YES / NO questions.) [Edited.] [Added link to @Leslie’s more detailed response with source links.] [Re-edited Note.]

Nope! Nada! No! They're doing everything possible to destroy everything before inauguration! They are the ones who have made these United States the shit hole country! This is not who we are! All they've done is make my blood boil! They've ruined our relations that we had with other countries! I'm sorry but they can all go f*** themselves because they've all shit on their oath of office...our constitution...and us! We need to make sure that this never ever happens again!!!

Cornyn, Cruz, to think that with all the bills STUCK in Moscow Mitch’s closet, THIS bill COULD BE the FIRST bill to be brought to the floor and MAY GET a VOTE in HOW LONG, NOT ONLY NOOO! but HELL NOOO! In the meantime, PULL YOUR HEADS OUT OF WHOEVER’S ASS YOU’RE CURRENTLY IN AND CONGRATULATE PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT HARRIS ON THEIR WIN! 🖕.

Where was Lindsey Graham for the last four years hiding up someone’s A—. MIA, he and the Republican Party all ready done the damage by not standing up to Trump and his administration giving into phobias, to little too late, to 500+ children! An a—hole from South Carolina he lost his moral compass when John McCain passed away. The laws we have in place are international laws, Lindsey Graham trying to do an end run and disenfranchise asylum-seekers, a typical Republican process. If you want to close loopholes how about corporate and the wealthy loopholes.

I don’t trust anything that comes from this Senator. I don’t trust anything our Congress presents dealing with immigration.

Any bill brought by Lindsey Graham should be automatically tabled as he changes his mind from minute to minute and has made it clear he trivializes the human rights of non-citizens.

No ugly bills by the obstructionist out going and cancerous voice box of Trump! Trump and his henchmen need to be arrested for inciting violence among other inflammatory lies he has spread to his conspiracy loving base. Apparently Republicans Must Rise up and be the adults in this country . Trump and his henchmen Cronies should be exiled in January 21st Escorted the hell out of office. Who should be listening to a lame duck child in a sand box throwing a country sized tantrum?