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Thanks for your additional information re the lady finding the "promised land". It just adds a little more to the overall picture. I had mentioned previously , on a post re asylum seekers- merely apply 1955 Canadian standards, to persons wishing entry. I expect the same applied to the USA too, when it selected its newcomers carefully.

A journalist tried to apply turn of the century standards to the new waves of immigrants and asylum seekers. He said (Andrew Rawnsley), that it is the vital lifes blood of a nation- this was true, of course.Difference today is both the USA, Canada and Britain having to face ,in a new English phrase: "Importing poverty". When vicious, unwarranted crime results, it is even more tragic. Aside from that have a wonderful Memorial Day. Weather has turned out suddenly here at the Canadian USA border, from previously poor to a glorious Monday of sunshine.

To self, just to mention that there is one country even more liable to step light in vicious crime. It is Canada. The youth in this instance was 15 years old. In Canada, a definition of juvenile can be set aside and - I think, a 17 year old can face adult court. For pre-meditated murder it is 25 years and the old "faint hope" clause(Parole possible after 15 years prison) may still be applied.

A youth of 16 years in British Columbia killed four persons, about five years ago, as a juvenile the max was- is ,four years detention. An outcry was raised when he was sent to an "easy street" facility after three years detention. A good question was raised on FR though ie: WHEN will this fellow get out? What is his REAL sentence?.