Posted on 06/30/2018 11:45:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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One way is by marching today in Washington and around the country to proclaim that families belong together. Many Americans will do this. We must, however, address the immigration issue comprehensively and humanely through evidence-based policy change. There are concrete actions that Congress and the administration can take to improve both the policies that affect immigrants after they arrive at our borders as well as materially diminish the factors that drive people to seek safety in America.
For 32 years in the Foreign Service — in Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, including as U.S. ambassador in Azerbaijan and Bosnia and Herzegovina — I witnessed refugees and internally displaced people emerge from war and internal instability, political oppression, lack of economic opportunity, and crime and corruption. After retirement, I served as board chair of Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area (LSS/NCA) and was deeply involved in resettling legal immigrants and unaccompanied minors in the DMV. I was proud as an American citizen and public servant of the compassion we showed to our neighbors in need.
Solving the "crisis" requires a multi-pronged approach. We must:
(a) address the causes in the source countries that create refugees;
(b) cooperate with source and transit countries to ensure that refugees receive humane treatment;
(c) bring to justice the organized crime enablers of illegal immigration; and
(d) recognize our responsibility not to separate children from their parents when they cross our borders — no matter the reason.
We need a three-part plan:
ETC...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Other than ending with 'America can't separate families', there are reasonable ideas.
The problem is not here. The problem is over there.
I’d like to see these American loving people’s mess after their march.
What do you do tomorrow after marching today?
Do stupid political stuff at work that gets you fired.
Enough of this Hill Of Crap stuff
They were together....in Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua...
Stop the foreign aid to these countries, see how fast this stops
Yes, the problem is over there. As for his recommendation that we “address the problems that cause this”, that is bogus. We cannot change their crappy socialist governments. Only the people who live there can do that, and most of them show no desire to do so. They come here and want to make the US the same kind of socialist sh**hole that they came from.
Send them all back. Let them figure out their own problems.
WE will create a red wave to contradict their marching. Show how much we need more R senators and representatives to get the wall built and legislation enacted.
To put it in perspective, about one in 5,000 Americans are marching today. 4,999 out of 5,000 are not.
Social Security is in trouble. It has been proposed (and I would concur), that all those who are so concerned about these “migrants”, could cede their social security benefits to the newly arrived illegal aliens. The new “immigrants” do, unfortunately, pose a drag on the American treasury. You like your immigrants, you can keep your immigrants. Just sign away your benefits. This is sarcasm, but it does make sense to me.
Remarkably irrelevant.
None of this has anything to do, really, with all the incidentals he mentions.
At bottom it is simply a consequence of the peoples of the world, the aspiring poor and not-so-poor, figuring out that moving to the,First World is feasible, is a shortcut to economic advancement, and of modern technology and modern economies that make it possible.
Its identical to the reasons why the US got a flood of European immigrants in the 19th-early 20th century.
It is a natural, predictable and understandable phenomenon. It does not require that the originating country be a hell-hole, nor is there any sort of political imperative. Nobody will fix this, other than through enforcement of borders.
In the long run even that is likely to be futile.
What? "Americans" are doing no such thing.
Perhaps a few thousand globalist libtards are outraged and marching in protest of our country enforcing its immigration laws, but that's it.
I cannot wait to be fronted by one of these asshats in a conversation. I have my retort. Ok, we should let them in, I agree. In fact, I have picked out two or three for you to take home with you. You are now their sponsor. You are responsible for housing, clothing, feeding, educating and caring for their health. If they get in trouble, you are an accomplice to that crime. You are also responsible for their being where they are supposed to be, IOW, you are now their GPS. If they flee, you serve their time.
Build wall, send home. It’s not as big of a problem as they make it appear.
The ones who are outraged, are the people sitting at home.
Those of you out on the streets, our laws are what count, and morons like you never will.
Question for protesters:
If families are so important, why are you living in sin?
I agree. Deport intact families (okay, deport the illegals, pay for the transportation of US citizen children with their illegal parents). If the kids are US citizens, they can come back once they are adults if they want to.
“The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them.” – Edmund Burke
The whole movement is a hoax. It’s just to say when just hating Trump isn’t good enough.
why is it always our responsibility to fix other countries problems
(b) cooperate with source and transit countries to ensure that refugees receive humane treatment;
We can see how well Mexico 'cooperates' can't we
(c) bring to justice the organized crime enablers of illegal immigration; and>/I>
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck U Schumer will be deeply saddened
(d) recognize our responsibility not to separate children from their parents when they cross our borders — no matter the reason.
Yes, there are VERY valid reasons to separate, the first of which is the criminal act of illegally entering the country
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