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Make the Border Kids Americans
Politico ^ | 7/17/14 | HUGH HEWITT

Posted on 09/04/2015 10:24:47 AM PDT by jimbo123

Approximately 90,000 minors have entered the country in the two years since President Obama, whether out of the best of intentions, cynical political calculation or as another of his serial expressions of incompetence, allowed the idea to take hold abroad that kids who were brought to the country would be allowed to stay. Numbers are swelling rapidly and detention centers are bursting at the seams. Among them are thousands of unaccompanied Central American children—approximately 52,000 since October, according to federal records.

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Right now the country ought to act to end the humanitarian crisis of tens of thousands of what are, in effect, orphans and strangers in our land. The very young among them should find “forever families” right here, right now. They should become Americans.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; hughhewitt; illegals; mexico
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To: dalereed

So are some of Rubio’s amnesty beliefs...


41 posted on 09/04/2015 12:41:38 PM PDT by hope
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To: GeronL

Why did you bring up Trump?


42 posted on 09/04/2015 12:45:22 PM PDT by Empire View
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To: jimbo123

Sorry, Hugh, that’s a non-starter. It might have been fine over 100 years ago when we (AZ) became a state, but it isn’t now.

We have rules for entry and obtaining citizenship. It is a valuable commodity and not one to be given away so blithely.


43 posted on 09/04/2015 1:24:51 PM PDT by HiJinx (May there be a road!)
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To: jimbo123

The females 18-20 that are above an 8 on the hotness scale and have and tattoos plus no kids of their own can stay. The rest get on the bus.


44 posted on 09/04/2015 1:30:10 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jimbo123

No. Criminals should never be rewarded for their crimes. The parents should not be cheering the outcome of their illegal acts.


45 posted on 09/04/2015 2:43:22 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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