[Kitten Festival]

I'm pretty hard nosed about this sort of thing but this story was a tear-jerker. I melted. Poor little kids, God gives so little to some people. They didn't do anything to deserve this. Guatemalans are such sweet honorable people, you never hear of them committing crimes. I wish we could do something for them.

[kinoxi]

If this is a tear jerker, then who should be excluded from undocumented entry into this country? Are you saying latinos are the only ones who matter?

[stm]

And if they go through all the legal requirements to become a US citizen, we should embrace them with enthusiasm.

[dennisw]

Their job is to get in here, illegally of course. Our job is to keep them out. If we didn't have 20+ million illegal aliens I might be more sympathetic. As it is I would ship every single one back

[msnimje]

Young thieves risk all to rob banks.

Young rapists risk all to attack other human beings.

Young terrorists risk all to get into the United States (Uh Oh!)

[ckilmer]

This is the fruits CAFTA. Just as the fruits of NAFTA were millions of Mexicans driven off the farm.

[A CA Guy]

They need to do the hard work of making their own places homes rather than move into ours.

[lonestar67]

I know I will likely get hammered for this but I still wish we had a more concerted pro immigration policy.

The most urgent thought existing in the world today is ' I must get to america.'

We should be pursuing every creative policy to drain the global tyrannies of the human capital they need by bringing people here in an orderly legal process.

If thugs presided over empty prairies and vacant villages there would be little basis for global struggles against the US.

Immigration could be a more powerful weapon in our arsenal against tyranny.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Me too, usually. But not this time, K. I feel sorry for them and their stupidity. But if they had done this *legally*, they wouldn't put their children in danger, in the first place.

Prayers for their innocent childrens' souls.

[CondiRice08]

What kind of parent just abandons their children? Of course their driven to such lengths - they've been left in a country with nothing, they've no opportunities to succeed in life. If a wall was on the border and they knew that their chances of getting in were about 5% instead of the current 95% that might change these parents and kids minds and convince them to stay at home and build up their own country

[Vision]

That's what the story is designed to do. It could be written about most countries in the world.

We have legal immigration. Let them apply or let them develop their own country. We can't a handle them all. Hell a decent amount of the ones we already have are trying to take over or kill us.

[monkeywrench]

I agree with your assessment of Guatemalans.

[VOA]

Guatemalans are such sweet honorable people, you never hear of them
committing crimes.

I agree.
And I disagree.

During my time in Los Angeles (1995-2005), I had to sit on two juries.
The second one was for a Guatemalan guy who'd threatened his family
with bodily injury and tried to break into their house.

I had an open mind on the charges until it was revealed this was
part of a pattern...he'd bitten off part of an ear-lobe of a
brother-in-law that had intervened in an EARLIER attack on his wife.
Fortunately, the brother-in-law had kept the perp from finally pushing
his wife all the way out the window and to the pavement!

We convicted; and hoped nothing had been lost in translation as
he had to have a translator.

Also, one of the janitors at my place of employment was a Guatemalan
lady...as sweet as could be.

Just saying that Guatemalans are like Americans.
A mixed bag.

As for the young folks that make the overland trek to the USA...
they have to be desparate.
Trying to get across the southern border of Mexico is an insane act
in its' own right.

I'm sympathetic.
But I'm even more sympathetic to the folks who fill out the papers,
play by the rules and wait their LONG turn to enter legally.

[MrEdd]

Sorry, But people from all around the world want to come here too.

My Position from the start has been:
If we need people we can process in new citizens who have never committed any crime including entering illegally.

And who are drawn from every country in the world
From Iceland To South Africa, From Norway to South Korea
Every corner of the globe, not giving ANY preference to the few nations to our immediate south.

My Position Has Not Changed.

[BW2221]

We have between 12 and 20 million illegals in the country now. If they are granted amnesty, they will be bringing relatives. How many of the world's poor can we support? At what point do we risk no longer being the United States but a country that's merged with Mexico (which may well be what the President wants).

[gotribe]

You can indeed help them. There are a number of religious organizations that have a lot of missions in Guatemala and you can contribute to their success. I like the Guatemalans, too.

[William Terrell]

There's something wrong with the lead sentence.

It says, in the last part, " as they try to sneak illegally through Mexico and across the U.S. border."

It should say, " as they try to sneak illegally through Mexico and illegally across the U.S. border."

Words mean things and the absence of words means something, too.

[mosquewatch.com]

Many others likely slipped in undetected.

Parasites.

[longtermmemmory]

anecdotal BS.

This is a "for the children" desperation move to go with the "1 million people" protest crimminal alien march.

Sorry but I don't buy this manure pile. This is just MSM pushing. This is like CNN giving reports about the poor palesinian childrens.

(or jessie jackson marching in front of the made in america sign in front of a Lebanese bomb rubble pile)

[ConservativeMind]

I don't see a need to be too upset over this. The story ends with virtually all of the returned kids insisting they'll keep doing it.

No lessons learned.

If we didn't have so many people up here who had successfully made it here (illegally), then these kids wouldn't be doing this. The rapes of these kids rest largely on the backs of those who encourage any of this illegal effort.

[ExtremeUnction]

I'm pretty hard nosed about this sort of thing but this story was a tear-jerker.

What?! There's no crying at The Free Republic!!