Posted on 07/18/2014 9:21:21 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas put a prominent, public face on the immigration crisis this week when he was detained by the U.S. Border Patrol in McAllen, Texas. After a number of hours and a national outcry, he was released. He first revealed his status as an undocumented immigrant three years ago in a New York Times Magazine article, and has since made changing U.S. immigration policy his primary work. Vargas was in Texas to support the thousands of undocumented immigrant children currently detained there by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Children are still fleeing violence in their native Central American home countries, seeking safety, at great risk, in distant lands. The issue is widely described here in the United States as a "border crisis," but it isn't that. We are experiencing a profound failure of economic globalization and U.S. foreign policy, amplified by failed, stagnant immigration policies here at home. The latest victims are the children seeking safety, who are instead being cruelly warehoused, shipped past threatening mobs of anti-immigrant extremists and deported back to life-threatening situations.Tens of thousands of children are now crossing the border from Mexico into the United States, unaccompanied by adults, after making perilous journeys of thousands of miles, often riding atop freight trains that are controlled by gangs. The series of trains is referred to as "La Bestia," or "The Beast." Children riding the rails must pay hefty fees, and many are beaten, robbed, raped and killed when making the journey north. Some hope to be reunited with parents in the U.S. Others are sent away by their parents in a last-ditch bid to help their children avoid the epidemic violence of their hometowns,
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“We are experiencing a profound failure of economic globalization and U.S. foreign policy, amplified by failed, stagnant immigration policies here at home.”
Anyone looking at the numbers of accepted LEGAL immigrants and the nations they come from know that there is NOT “too little” legal immigration to the U.S. from Latin America.
And the problems in Latin America stem from the predominately democratic choices of the people in Central and South America, not U.S. foreign or domestic policy.
A proper POTUS would send Vargas packing.
“Border children may not speak English, but they understand hate”
They sure do, given the gangs down there, which is why WE DON’T WANT THEM HERE.
Oh, noes, the H word! Let me go cower and cringe. /S
I don’t give a rat’s behind whether someone thinks I’m a hater.
I understand “hate” also. That’s why a keep a firearm in my home. Just in case a home invader types decide to get “froggy”. I want to party with them too!
WE THE PEOPLE WANT THEM TO STAY HOME WITH THEIR LOVED ONES.
We do NOT want them to come here and turn America into a third world country. Where will they run to after we are destroyed?
Self-presevation is not cruelty!
Amy needs to ask North Korea or some other Socialist state to help the children.
It’s cruel of Amy to invite child molesters and drunk drivers into our country.
Doesn’t she care about American children?
The only 100% preventable crimes are those committed by illegal aliens
You have no need to worry about her trying stretch pants any time soon!
Textile engineers have yet to develop a fabric that will contain those gargantuan buttocks that tightly.
We don’t hate children, JUST ILLEGAL CHILDREN (and adults, too)!
Maybe it will make them feel unwanted and they will go home.
Implying what that Americans radiate hate? Tell you what my hispasnish aint very good but I have never had any trouble understanding the hate radiated at me from them or their children.
American also understand incompetence in this administration!
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