[Ditter]

I am not suggesting that the American people should be responsibe for them. I am just commenting on what desperation can drive people to do. The woman was giving birth under a bush 30 miles into rugged terraine after she crossed the Rio Grand & by the time an ambulance arrived, she & the baby were gone. These are tough people, kind of like the ones who first settled this land wouldn't you say? Not like the softies we/I have become.

[raybbr]

Ditter:These are tough people, kind of like the ones who first settled this land wouldn't you say? Not like the softies we/I have become.

Softies? How about civilized? Are you extolling the virtue of putting your child at risk by having it in the desert? Are you saying they are better off than we are? Then why do they come here?

[South40]

I am not suggesting that the American people should be responsibe for them. I am just commenting on what desperation can drive people to do. The woman was giving birth under a bush 30 miles into rugged terraine after she crossed the Rio Grand & by the time an ambulance arrived, she & the baby were gone. These are tough people, kind of like the ones who first settled this land wouldn't you say? Not like the softies we/I have become.

A pregnant woman who attempts to cross a desert is not tough, she is stupid. And they are driven by poverty, driven to look for a better life, or so we're told. If that makes them tough then so am I.