We can’t create incentives to get people to want to change their own country for the better.
Well, the ones that stay are going into foster group homes, which may cause many of them to run back home.
One thing that should absolutely never happen is rewarding the parents by letting the kids bring them into the country, even if we legalize them.
In any case, the kids are going home. The President is asking for more funds and authority to expedite their removal.
They aren’t asking to come to my house. They’re just asking for the chance to make their way here.
They’re minors. Their immediate destination is the foster system. In other words, taxpayer support.
And I’m perfectly willing to spend tax dollars to save their lives.
IF their lives were actually in danger, they are eligible for asylum and some will be granted asylum. Those whose lives were never in danger will be returned to their parents where they belong and where they are frankly safer than in our notorious foster system.
Yet these Honduran parents made the decision that their children have a better chance to make the difficult journey through Mexico and deal with the US system than to remain in Honduras and risk losing their lives to gang violence.
If Republicans wanted to reduce the influx of these refugees, then I expect them to pass legislation to send aid to Central American governments to help them rid themselves of these gangs.
The influx of refugees has been caused by rumors that kids are automatically amnestied. These rumors are mistaken, because it only applies to kids who came here a couple of years ago or earlier. It does not apply to kids arriving now and the President has no intention of applying his executive order to kids arriving now.
For most of these kids, their permanent place of residence is likely to be a place that is violent and has a lot of gangs, whether it’s Honduras or the US.
This situation is analogous to when Clinton promised to stop turning away Haitian refugees. When he won the election, Haitians started taking their houses apart to make boats. When faced with this reality, Clinton went back on his promise to avoid a humanitarian crisis. By sending back these 80,000 or so, Obama will prevent hundreds of thousands more from attempting this dangerous journey.
How is that Obama’s fault?
It’s not Obama’s fault, proving the rumors right would be though. The best thing for the kids already here would be to allow them to stay, but that makes things much much worse by encouraging tens of thousands more to make the dangerous trip.
Should Obama obey the law passed during the Bush administration and let the children stay with relatives until a hearing? Or should he just ignore the law, and send them home immediately?
But they’re less likely to catch a bullet where they are now.
Whether it is or not doesn’t matter for the purposes of this discussion. What matters is why they are here and how to deter more from coming.
The children should absolutely stay with relatives until a hearing. The foster system or keeping them locked up on those bases will mess them up but good. Although the PResident is looking for legal authority from Congress to expedite removal.
Send them home. as soon as they set foot into the U.S. If they need immediate medical care, give them that, then send them home. We’ve heard a lot about the president being able to use discretion when it comes to enforcing our laws. Now, we have a full-fledged crisis, so in the short term, ignore the law passed during the Bush years. And in the meantime, fix it.
Isn’t it a different case when they are apprehended at the border? I thought people apprehended at the border were simply put back on the other side of it?
I don’t know. Though I fear that would make too much sense. B ut wherever they are found, send them back, as I outlined above.
So if the President circumvents the law for liberal purposes, it’s an impeachable offense, but if he does it to uphold conservative principles, it’s just strong leadership?
Let it be known that I think he should follow the law.
No, we don’t. Taking care of those refugees presents no crisis, it’s nothing to strain the federal budget or anything, just requires a creative bit of resource-management, and they present no threat whatsoever by being here, and certainly no public-health threat. Sending them back would present a humanitarian crisis.