Monday night we “apprehended” 2,200 illegals.
At that rate we are admitting a caravan a week.
This has to stop.
They keep saying the El Paso sector is the busiest. Why aren’t we building the wall there?
I understand the illegals will just move to a different area, but why not walk ofc the worst parts first?
Illegal is the problem
I think back 20-30 years ago. We hired migrant families to work our produce fields. One particular family I remember well. The father spoke English and was the translator/boss. His family had helped locals for generations. They came as a family. Their children would attend school until after the pumpkins were picked in the fall and then they would head back to Mexico.
One year the son was a second grader, daughter in fourth grade. These children had always collected any extra papers from their teachers. One year the teacher asked why: Their village did not have a school and the two children were teaching their cousins and friends what they had learned here
To make a long story longer. The teacher asked (since both were very bright) if there was anyway they could stay for an entire year. The father said We (he and wife)had green cards, but what could they do? The teachers husband worked at a bank that had foreclosed on a local restaurant. The man said his wife was a really good cook and always cooked for the other farm workers.
Well to make a long story longer. They ended up opening FIVE restaurants in southern Indiana. Two in our county, one in Scott county and two down near Nikk
The son is a teacher His older sister a doctor. Cousins and aunts and uncles came to work in the restaurant and attended local school and got educated. One sister became a beautician and opened a beauty shop “at home”. ALL except those who are currently running the restaurants have returned to their village which now has electricity, running water AND a school (that the son started).
I know this is long. The point is our small community helped a family. It wasn’t the Federal Government giving millions/billions away to some greedy politician in Mexico. It was a few people in “small town” USA who gave opportunity and support to the family who shared their pews from July — October for generations that made the difference. Dad and mom had green cards just like their parents and their parents did. They made their own opportunity, Those who followed and there were MANY applied legally All people dream but they MUST follow the law. We are a nation on law.
It’s still my favorite restaurant in town. Great authentic Mexican buffet. The family still send their teens to work in the restaurant and get their deplomas from our local high school.