You can’t blame an eight-year-old for coming here illegally. But you can blame her parents for bringing her, and the politicians and school authorities for winking at it all those long years.
Mexico is rich with natural resources. They have their fair share of billionaires. There’s no reason they can’t have a prosperous and happy country of their own, if they just straighten out their broken culture and politics. We are doing them no favors by hiring them on as cheap illegal labor in this country and actually encouraging them to break the law.
You can blame a lawsuit entitled Plyler vs Doe, brought by a South African named Peter Schey who has been the brains behind a number of similar lawsuits, for her continued presence in this country, and the taxpayer burden her education represents. The reason Mexico’s development has been stunted, to a great extent, is that there is no rule of law there. They come here and bring that entire mindset about the law with them, to our distinct disadvantage. And we let them. I hope they deport her, but there is no reason why she can’t apply for legal entry.