Hugs and sobs: Families separated in US return to Guatemala

ap ^ | July 12th 2018 | COLLEEN LONG

[spacewarp]

Nah. Let’s use them in the crash testing for drones and space craft. Sorry, but these scum don’t deserve to live. Preying on desperate people, taking cash to break laws, and often abusing, raping and even in some cases, murdering the person trying to get here illegally, and then often selling them into slavery.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Which is why they absolutely *love* the badly controlled US border - it allows that population to bleed out and away, who would otherwise be stuck there to fester and plot against them. The peasants become someone else's problem, which is fine by them.

 

 

[Elsie]

"Now, I'll try to find work here," Juarez said. "What else is there?"

You went through Mexico; right?

Was there no work there to be done?

[dsc]

Hey, they rolled the dice in an illegal game, and came up snake eyes.

They’re probably better fed and healthier now than they were the day they left home to come here.

[jospehm20]

All illegal aliens should be reunited in their hellhole of origin.

[Paladin2]

Immigrants?

[UCANSEE2]

map of outgoing remittances

[deport]

Interesting map and I’ve seen this happen at a local grocery.
They have a check cashing counter, etc and on Thursday/Friday
evenings the workers will come in and cash their check and get
a wire transfer of funds back to their home country. A lot of
these people share a multi room building as a sleeping facillity.

[walford]

I join others commenting here in echoing the sentiment that this story only exemplifies the fact that the tragedy of family separation would not have happened if they did not sneak into this country in the first place. And the incentive the Democrats provide in offering them Driver’s Licenses, in-state Tuition, Taxpayer-Funded Benes...is ultimately cruel.

But let me add this as someone who has actually been formally educated in Journalistic writing. I offer the opening paragraph:

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“Donelda Pulex stepped off the airplane into the sun, clutching her 5-year-old daughter’s hand and burst into heaving sobs. Fourteen-year-old Hermelindo Juarez hid his face as his father comforted him. Efildo Daniel Vasquez walked cautiously behind his 8-year-old son.”

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This is not a journalist; this is a frustrated novelist. It offers no information, preferring instead to paint an emotional picture of protagonists selected for us by the writer. We are spoon-fed fluff like this until information regarding cause-and-effect is offered well past the middle of the story — and it is never clear.

[What is actually relevant: As Chief Executive, President Trump dutifully enforced the law as it was written and implemented for the past 20 years. Children were separated from the adults who illegally sneaked them into our country. After a backlash — and searching his own conscience — the President stopped the practice and kept the children with the adults when captured together. Then, predictably, the Democrats then started bleating about “internment” camps, tacitly summoning images of Japanese-Americans during WW2. So these illegal aliens were then deported in a timely manner. All of the rest of the story is irresponsible appeals to emotion and bleeding-heart pablum.]

Proper news stories get to the point from the beginning, summarizing the most important aspects within a 22-word opening sentence. This is not some nit-picky criticism offered in the service of arbitrary rules that are of no importance to non-journalists.

The Inverted Pyramid is designed to encourage clear, objective news-writing. A writer is not going to have room for “hugs and sobs” and accomplish actually informing the audience in a concise, bias-free manner.

The abandonment of true journalistic writing in favor of novelizing is a symptom of everything that is wrong with the Establishment Media today.

[ClearBlueSky]

Stop all these t$$ transmissions or limit them severely. Now! This is all like watching ticks line up to feed on a caged dog. Never ending line of suckers until the host is dead. Do or do not- there is no try. STOP IT cold!

[ClearBlueSky]

You feel for them all you want- I feel nothing but contempt for each and every one. Their countries are crappy because of THEM- their culture, their attitudes; and they are bringing it HERE. Spreading crap out to other countries does not eliminate crap, it makes those countries more like the s**tholes they ‘escaped’. If we don’t want to rely on God’s grace to prevent our decline we have to use the brains God gave us to prevent it.