Senator Dan Coats (R-IN) and several other conservative Republicans have penned a letter to President Obama accusing him of, in their words, exacerbating a humanitarian crisis that’s led to a flood of Central American migrants into the U.S.
Coats and fellow Senate Appropriations Committee Republicans Thad Cochran (R-MS), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Richard Shelby (R-AL) accuse the Obama Administration of not enforcing the nation’s immigration laws – despite the fact the number of deportations of illegal immigrants is up during Obama’s tenure.
However, the President has paused a review of deportation policies for the summer, in hopes Congress will pass an immigration overhaul. But many pundits agree the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) by a Tea Party challenger running against Cantor’s immigration policies makes any new legislation a tough sell.
Coats and his co-authors are asking the White House for specifics on how the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border will be lessened.
