....”What is our moral and legal obligation to these children who are being used as political pawns?”....
No obligation whatsoever......bus them back their own country.
Further...only 18% are “children”...and often if with an adult at all he was kidnapped in order to get over the border. Even so...send him home.
I have no compassion toward those coming in regardless of their “story”.....they need to be returned to their country.
I notice the news is full of faith groups touting our obligations to the children. It seems to me that expressions of charity are only righteous if they are done on a personal level. Forcing me to pay for your charitable contributions through higher school taxes, increased medical costs and increasing deficits is just theft.