Inside Texas Politics: Will anything change after the deadliest human smuggling incident in history?
Published Date: 7/3/2022
Source: WFAA
It is the deadliest human smuggling incident in the history of the United States: 53 migrants dead after being locked inside a tractor-trailer that was later abandoned in San Antonio. The Republican Congressman from that area says if this doesn’t open our eyes, nothing will. “If we don’t take notice to 53 innocent migrants dying, then when are we going to take notice to it,” Congressman Tony Gonzales asked on Inside Texas Politics. And now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden Administration can dump the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” border policy, Congressman Gonzales says two things must happen. First, the San Antonio Republican says the legislative branch needs to find a long-term solution, so judges aren’t the folks deciding immigration policy, which can vary from court to court and year to year. And second, he says the executive branch needs to implement policies that work. While he thinks the “Remain in Mexico” policy was flawed, he says it was working. It required asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases were heard in U.S. courts. Congressman Gonzales also thinks more immigration judges must be added to the equation.