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Why Are Parents Bringing Their Children on Treacherous Treks to the U.S. Border?
NYT via MSN ^ | 22 Jun 2018 | JULIE TURKEWITZ, JOSE A. DEL REAL and RYAN CHRISTOPHER JONES

Posted on 06/23/2018 1:06:53 AM PDT by blueplum

TUCSON, Ariz. — When Luis Cruz left behind his wife, four of their children and the house he’d built himself, he’d heard that American officials might split him from his son, the one child he took with him. But earlier this month, the two of them set out from Guatemala anyway. The truth, he said this week, moments after they arrived at a cream-colored migrant shelter in Tucson, was that he would rather be apart from his child than face what they had left behind. “If they separate us, they separate us,” said Mr. Cruz, 41. {snip}

“This is the reason I brought a minor with me,” said Guillermo T., 57, a construction worker who recently arrived in Arizona. Facing unemployment at home in Guatemala, he decided to head north; he had been told that bringing his 16-year-old daughter would assure passage....“She was my passport,” he said of his daughter.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bordersecurity; childexploitation; childtrafficking; guatamala; illegalimmigration; immigration; migration
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To: blueplum

If the world sees that using a child as a passport works you will get many more. Very few of these people qualify for refugees status. The only thing that will turn the flow off is quick deportation of some of these families. When they get back home the word will spread that using children doesn’t work. Then this behavior will at least slow. Of course liberals will cover, if not stage, the departure of screaming families at airports to try to sabotage any effort at enforcing the law.


21 posted on 06/23/2018 4:54:39 AM PDT by Stevenfo
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To: blueplum

They’r bringing their kinder here because this is such a horrible racist hell hole. It’s a form of self-flaggellation./Huge Sarc.


22 posted on 06/23/2018 4:58:58 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: blueplum

I think you will find that democrats encouraged them to do it.


23 posted on 06/23/2018 5:12:47 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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24 posted on 06/23/2018 5:20:41 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ( Liberals love all mankind without reservation. Except those who don't agree with them 100%.)
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To: blueplum

Man oh man...Wondering if Trump could use the executive to declare a national emergency and deploy military engineers to build the wall?


25 posted on 06/23/2018 5:33:13 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: blueplum

I see, in the case of Mr Cruz; so there was no employment in Mexico, Belize or Honduras???


26 posted on 06/23/2018 5:38:39 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: blueplum
Escaping genocide?

No?

Oh...unemployment...

27 posted on 06/23/2018 5:45:00 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: blueplum

Or as the “democrat immigration activists” would say, “Children are your golden ticket into the U.S. Drag one along with you.”


28 posted on 06/23/2018 5:46:06 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: blueplum

they are being paid by soros/Clinton fondation


29 posted on 06/23/2018 5:47:40 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: blueplum

We are the bill payers for failed states to our south and are quickly becoming one ourselves due to this massive invasion of illegals draining our resources and causing mayhem.


30 posted on 06/23/2018 5:49:15 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: blueplum

You must not read Boo Hoo Monthly. It’s so the lovable urchins can have a better life ...

... on our dime.


31 posted on 06/23/2018 5:53:28 AM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: SkyPilot

They’re obviously not starving in their home country


32 posted on 06/23/2018 6:00:43 AM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

One girl had a fabulous nail job. No poverty there


33 posted on 06/23/2018 6:06:29 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: blueplum

don’t build detention centers, hire more judges. Removing illegals as quickly as possible should be a focus.

Somehow the world needs to understand that the main reason, not the only one, but primary reason for illegally entering and claiming asylum is to get on a very lucrative benefit program - mucho dinero!! - and it’s free, so everyone can sit around, play dominoes, drink rum and make babies - what a life!!!


34 posted on 06/23/2018 6:07:21 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: blueplum

The Rats are paying them big money when they get here?????


35 posted on 06/23/2018 6:39:24 AM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: XRdsRev
If you left your young child unattended at a Walgreen's, you'd be charged with child neglect.

And we're supposed to feel empathy for these illegal "parents?"

36 posted on 06/23/2018 6:48:24 AM PDT by daler
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To: blueplum

Home conditions were so bad that he LEFT HIS WIFE AND THE REST OF THE KIDS THERE?!?!?!


37 posted on 06/23/2018 6:49:47 AM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: blueplum

For: Free money, free housing, free food, free education, free everything while the poorest of American kids suffer along with their families; it’s all for the “immigrants” since we’re all nice and everything.


38 posted on 06/23/2018 6:52:29 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: blueplum

Like the famous movie line, “Build it, and they will come.”, they know we have goodies waiting for them, free...Of-f**kin’-course they’re going to “come”.

The only ones who should be allowed in are those who have a legally committed American sponsor, who agrees to be responsible for their health, education, and welfare until the immigrants earn...EARN...citizenship. The sponsors should know their whereabouts at all times.

Immigrants should not be allowed to work until they become citizens, or, possess a skill, or trade, that no American can fill.

America FIRST...the rest are just invaders.


39 posted on 06/23/2018 6:53:55 AM PDT by FrankR ( Winners NEVER cheat, and Cheaters NEVER win.)
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To: blueplum

For the free stuff ...


40 posted on 06/23/2018 6:55:13 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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