Posted on 04/27/2014 5:39:37 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
It is not bad if you have a US income. On the other hand if you are a national and protest the eco-nuts that are ruining the economy and taking away your job they throw you in jail for eight years.
“Why is a very rich country like Mexico not providing jobs for its people?
Of course, the media could ask the same thing of America, but we know they won’t.”
I agree. Why is Mexico off the hook. Why is the USA the safety net for this country?
Why won’t the Mexicans allow their people to defend themselves from the drug lords?
I hear the Mexicans are brutal to people who slip across their border. This child was from Ecuador. Why would any loving parent send a child on such a dangerous journey? Did the parents travel together to the USA, yet expect a 12 year old to make it by herself? I would imagine they were sending money home to feed her. She was with her grandparents, so she would have been safe. This was selfish of the parents to make this child take this dangerous journey.
How long before we find out that “Naomi” is a composite character who never existed?
All four of my grandparents heard that, in America, the streets are paved with gold, and all four of them made their way here between 1904 and 1914. Had they not, they and their children would have perished in the Holocaust and I never would have been born.
Perverse incentives are part of it. As for Mexico, I’d have thought they’d be happy to help her on her way, but not to squat.
Different kind of “gold” now, unfortunately. Back then it was the dignified gold of wide open opportunities. Now it’s filthy welfare lucre.
The parents and grandparents should be ashamed.
God take care of that little girl-—she didn’t have a chance.
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What about the grandmother? She sure isn't wanting for food.
Also the article mentions education... I’d be embarrassed to say it, but Ecuador education probably whips highfalutin US public schools in the basics. This is what happens when parents see children as something like trophies rather than a responsibility given from God.
A legal US citizen who sent their child on such a journey un-chaperone would be in jail facing any number of charges.
And the Americans want you to move out.
Good point! I think what worked then, when the country was being built, isn’t the same now and for the most part attitudes have changed. Most of those people were very self-sufficient and were looking for opportunity and freedom. I have a boss from Africa and when he came here the government people couldn’t believe it when he turned down welfare. What he did instead is work two jobs, put himself through school and for many years now he has held a very good position at a Fortune 500 company. He is proud of this and for good reason.
I am glad your grandparents made it here. On my mother’s side I have mostly British ancestors who came here before we were a country - the hard working lives they had are amazing to read about and it’s difficult to imagine people today, other than SEALS maybe, doing what they did. On my father’s side we have Mexicans - but my father and his father were born in the US. I have a Dutch brother in law and despite being married to my sister and having a PhD - it wasn’t all that easy to get him in.
The two parents in this story both had jobs so I give them that, although they were cheating the system obviously, but to expect their 12 year old daughter to make her way here like that??? It’s impossible for me to understand.
great parents, leave her behind at birth
eff them
poor little thing
Not only that—when ICE catches these minors, they are taking them to the parents and reuniting them instead of deporting everyone. Word is out and the parents are sending for the kids know that once they make it across the border, they are home free even if they’re caught. Heck it’s a free trip for the kid if they are caught.
Yep, that "anchor" in "anchor baby" works both before and after the fact, doesn't it? Throw the kid over first, family follows, or throw the family over first, kid follows to "secure" everyone. Nice deal all around, isn't it?
This happened to this poor girl, and literally millions of horrible things happen every year, because scumbag US politicians refuse to enforce our border laws. Because they want cheap, exploitable labor. And for much of the filth in Hollyweird and DC, because they want cheap sex.
There have been some ads posted lately (on public transit, and elsewhere) in my general neighborhood warning about human trafficking and how most trafficked girls under 12 end up as prostitutes, and another print ad campaign warns that underage prostitutes are rape victims. The people supporting "amnesty" also, curiously, oppose human trafficking and all the ills it brings.
Someone out to buy sex isn't going to check a girl's age, or check her legal status.
After reading the story...those are my exact thoughts.
If I read correctly, the little girl’s death occurred in Mexico.(since you saw the same thing I know I’m not crazy) The title is misleading.
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