Posted on 07/16/2014 9:39:27 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The fight over how to process and care for masses of children from Central America who have crossed into this country is quickly becoming a spectacle of the obscene.
While the government tries to abide by the law as written and handle the children with as much care as any child would deserve, under any circumstances, the public continues to see images of angry adults intent on confronting buses full of minors.
All this has raised the tenor of xenophobic hysteria in this country and is likely to poison the well of comprehensive immigration reform.
At this point, the entire issue has taken on partisan dimensions. Many of the president’s core supporters — blacks, liberal Democrats and young people — are more likely to support following the current policy. On the other hand, constituencies more likely to oppose the president — men, whites, older people and Republicans, particularly those who are supporters of the Tea Party — favor speeding up the process.
This is not the best face of a great nation. This is the underside of a great stone, which when lifted sends creepy things slithering in all directions. We are better than this. We are more compassionate than this. We are more honorable than this.
This is not the time to give in to our lesser angels, but the time to rise with our better ones.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They sure wanted Elian Gonzalez sent back. Their opinion seems to have changed.
Don’t doubt for a minute the MSM, Dems and Obama are hiding the stories of missing kids in villages in Central America. They were not ALL sent away by their parents. We’d probably be surprised at just how many of them were kidnapped.
And what if some are kidnapped away from these loving parents? How and why is our problem to ‘resettle’ them here in some camp, or with bogus relatives, or ANY of that mess?
They shouldn’t even be allowed to cross into this country since, according to prominent Democrats is ‘secure.’ They should be denied entry and turned around. This is Mexico’s problem for allowing them to cross the breadth of their country undeterred.
Well; this would be a FIRST!
Tears for the Border Children
I never thought that I would say that I am happy to know that I won’t live long enough to see the vermin from south of the border grow up and totally destroy our way of life.
It's not and should not be. ESPECIALLY if they were kidnapped and brought here. I say, get the names of the so-called "family-member" they supposedly came here to be with, arrest them for at least child endangerment/child abuse and reunite the kid back with his family in his home country.
Any politician stupid enough to be supporting putting these kids on death trains headed for Mexico and then to USA had better be prepared. I have a hunch there will be news stories of parents in Central America speaking out wondering if their little Juanito who had gone missing one day from the village.
The drug cartel is making billions of $$ off this scheme. Anybody who supports these illegals staying is indirectly supporting the financing of the drug cartel and THAT is our problem.
I don't see how any pro-family conservative or ANYBODY pro-family could even have to think twice about sending these people back to their own family, their own culture, language and their own home.
I don't recall parents in the South Bronx ever shipping their children to France or Switzerland back in the 80s and 90s.
its about time these thugs were identified and shunned
it might cause others to think twice before following unlawful orders
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