[blueplum]

children as chattel property, children left behind to fend for themselves, children as 'passports', children as a worthless means to an end....

pardon my lack of empathy

[Doogle]

Bingo

[canuck_conservative]

So he wasn’t facing religious or political persecution in Guatemala, no gangs roaming the streets, just ... unemployment.

So they ARE simply economic migrants, not real “refugees” under the UN definition.

[JustaTech]

The two best things we can do to depressurize the border are also the two best things we can do for ourselves:

1.) End prohibition, completely. That will help pull the rug from under the cartels.

2.) Build the wall and secure the border, completely. That will help pull the rug from under the coyotes.

[eartick]

OK ICE, two names and their locations.

GO GET THEM.....lol

[XRdsRev]

If. I dragged my young kids through a dangerous desert in search of a “treasure”, I would be accused of being an irresponsible parent whose kids should be in protective custody by many of the same people who expect everyone to hold these illegal aliens in high esteem because they dragged their kids through the desert in search of the American dream.

[SkyPilot]

Why Are Parents Bringing Their Children on Treacherous Treks to the U.S. Border?

Well, I'll tell ya. It isn't because of "Domestic and Gang Violence" either. That's what they are coached to say in order to dance right on into our country.

This is why they are invading:

Universal Program for Subsidized Phones for Low Income (ObamaPhones), EBT Food Stamps (SNAP), ObamaCare Subsidies for Immigrants, ObamaCare Subsidies for Low Income, Medicaid, Section 8 Housing, Unemployment, TANF Welfare, Energy Assistance, EITC, Foster Care Title IV, Old Age Assistance, AFDC, General Assistance Cash, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Assets for Independence, School Lunch Assistance, Child Care Development Fund, SCHiP State Supplemental Health Insurance Program, Consolidated Health Centers, Foster Care Grants, Consolidated Community Health, Maternal and Child Health Assistance Fund, Healthy Start, School Lunch Block Grant, Job Assistance, Job Training, Minority Job Assistance, Job Relocation, Woman Infants and Children's Program, Nutrition for the Elderly, Summer Jobs Program, Minority Summer Jobs, Hispanic Jobs Program, Commodity Supplemental Food Program, Special Milk Program, Needy Families, Farmer's Market Nutrition Program, Public Housing, Low Income Energy Assistance, Migrant Education, Title One Grants to Local Education Authorities, Education for Homeless Children and Youth, Even Start, Job Corps, Social Security Disability, Social Security for Refugees, Social Security for Humanitarian Cases, Social Security for Asylum, Health Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grants, TANF Child Care, Empowerment Zones for Minority Communities, Urban Development Action Grants, and Family Planning (abortion).

[yoe]

A 16 year old is not a child. That any father would put his daughter in imminent danger of all kinds, is reprehensible. Was he capable of protecting his “passport”...?

[meyer]

For free stuff.

[Ann Archy]

FREE STUFF!!! We give EVERYTHING to them ad they VOTE!!

It also could be a Cloward/Piven Organized Invasion to "swamp" the system and make the RULE OF LAW Collapse!!!

[DoodleBob]

Many families — especially those from countries in Central America plagued by gang violence and ruined economies — are making the calculation that even separation or detention in the United States is better than the situation at home.

Across the border in the Mexican town of Nogales, many parents preparing to cross the border said temporary separation from their children in the United States would be better than facing the violence back home.

Even with steep drops in the number of recorded murders in the past year, El Salvador and Honduras, the home countries of many migrants, are still among the most dangerous countries in the world. Poverty is hammering away at livelihoods in much of Central America, and for some, the decision to leave is a gamble on a better life.

I thought these countries weren't s***holes.

[School of Rational Thought]

Why aren’t these people charges with child endangerment?

[ronnie raygun]

The left the UN Soros and the other elitists globalists are in a war with most of the American people. They want comlete control and the destruction of what America stands for, individuality. The more holes you put in a boat the faster it sinks

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Why Are Parents Bringing Their Children on Treacherous Treks to the U.S. Border?

Here's a clue:

[Stevenfo]

If the world sees that using a child as a passport works you will get many more. Very few of these people qualify for refugees status. The only thing that will turn the flow off is quick deportation of some of these families. When they get back home the word will spread that using children doesn’t work. Then this behavior will at least slow. Of course liberals will cover, if not stage, the departure of screaming families at airports to try to sabotage any effort at enforcing the law.

[Tucker39]

They’r bringing their kinder here because this is such a horrible racist hell hole. It’s a form of self-flaggellation./Huge Sarc.

[I want the USA back]

I think you will find that democrats encouraged them to do it.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

[servantboy777]

Man oh man...Wondering if Trump could use the executive to declare a national emergency and deploy military engineers to build the wall?

[Wuli]

I see, in the case of Mr Cruz; so there was no employment in Mexico, Belize or Honduras???

[Eagles6]

Escaping genocide?

No?

Oh...unemployment...