On the same day Óscar Alberto and Valeria died, U.S. Border Patrol agents found four bodies along the Rio Grande in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, about 55 miles west of Brownsville. In that case, three children — one toddler and two infants — died along with a 20-year-old woman.
>This week alone, the news broke that the Trump administration was seeking to ethnically cleanse more than 193,000 American children of immigrants whose temporary protected status had been revoked by the administration, that the Department of Homeland Security had lied about creating a database of children that would make it possible to unite them with the families the Trump administration had arbitrarily destroyed, that the White House was considering a blanket ban on visas for Chinese students, and that it would deny visas to the same-sex partners of foreign officials.
>We can hear the spectacle of cruel laughter throughout the Trump era. There were the border-patrol agents cracking up at the crying immigrant children separated from their families, and the Trump adviser who delighted white supremacists when he mocked a child with Down syndrome who was separated from her mother.
Don't you think the use of the phrase "ethnically cleanse" for what amounts to deportation (regardless of the legality or morality of said deportation) is a little over the top?
I'm not condoning anything that the current administration is doing but using language that equates deporting people with genocide is dishonest, to put it charitably.
A wall would deter people from coming to begin with, which would ease the burden on border patrol facilities, making the whole situation more humane.
Let's not belittle these people by pretending that they don't have access to the internet and world news. People will still come, but once word spreads that a wall in key locations is actually being built, at least some percentage of them will reconsider the decision and settle with aid from countries such as Mexico, which had already been granted to them.
Key locations of a 3000+ km border? Please realize the wall is just a political slogan. It will never be seriously built because it's insanely expensive, and no matter how many km you manage to save, it will be very big and very hard to guard.
Ironically, you might not need it since Trump and AMLO (the Mexican president) agreed for Mexico to stop the influx of migrants with its own resources. In a sense, we built the wall and are paying for it, by becoming the wall itself.
In the course of attempting to fraudulently claim asylum in the US ("fleeing poverty" is not a valid reason for asylum under international treaties, and even if they had a valid reason such as political persecution they already had a Mexican humanitarian visa and therefore had no need to seek asylum in the US), parents try to swim a 1-year old across a huge river, killing her and one of themselves in the process. It does put attention on immigration.
What exactly is the US supposed to do? If they don't "meter" the asylum processing facilities, the facilities will become overcrowded and be dubbed "concentration camps". If they do meter them, they "cause" people to do deadly things with their children in tow, according to people quoted in this article.
Maybe people would still be poor in Central America if not, but the US has a responsibility to deal with some of the consequences after decades of destabilization and intervention in the region.
There is no nation on Earth that just throws open their borders as is repeatedly asked of the U.S. in recent years.
It is true that the U.S. has a responsibility to its neighbors. It doesn't follow that open borders are the same thing as taking responsibility. In fact, open borders are the opposite of responsibility.
USA doesn't need to open its borders indiscriminately, what I'm saying is that it should take responsibility for some of the fallout of its own meddling with Latin American democracies and economies.
Indiscriminately opening the borders is just as bad as indiscriminately closing them, there should be a fair review process to accept some of those refugees. Expecting Mexico to become "the wall" will just stall the humanitarian crisis a few years.
We're the richest country in the world and we're denying them soap and toothbrushes, items that cost pennies in bulk. It's not about money or resource allocation, it's about cruelty.
I'm glad we agree ... so with that settled, the Democrats, particularly the progressive wing, will be approving funding for Homeland Security and Border Patrol then, right?
No? Oh, right, I forgot we need to keep this humanitarian crisis going till the 2020 elections so that Dems can retake the White House ...
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 37.2 ms ] thread>This week alone, the news broke that the Trump administration was seeking to ethnically cleanse more than 193,000 American children of immigrants whose temporary protected status had been revoked by the administration, that the Department of Homeland Security had lied about creating a database of children that would make it possible to unite them with the families the Trump administration had arbitrarily destroyed, that the White House was considering a blanket ban on visas for Chinese students, and that it would deny visas to the same-sex partners of foreign officials.
>We can hear the spectacle of cruel laughter throughout the Trump era. There were the border-patrol agents cracking up at the crying immigrant children separated from their families, and the Trump adviser who delighted white supremacists when he mocked a child with Down syndrome who was separated from her mother.
I'm not condoning anything that the current administration is doing but using language that equates deporting people with genocide is dishonest, to put it charitably.
Let's not belittle these people by pretending that they don't have access to the internet and world news. People will still come, but once word spreads that a wall in key locations is actually being built, at least some percentage of them will reconsider the decision and settle with aid from countries such as Mexico, which had already been granted to them.
Ironically, you might not need it since Trump and AMLO (the Mexican president) agreed for Mexico to stop the influx of migrants with its own resources. In a sense, we built the wall and are paying for it, by becoming the wall itself.
What exactly is the US supposed to do? If they don't "meter" the asylum processing facilities, the facilities will become overcrowded and be dubbed "concentration camps". If they do meter them, they "cause" people to do deadly things with their children in tow, according to people quoted in this article.
It is true that the U.S. has a responsibility to its neighbors. It doesn't follow that open borders are the same thing as taking responsibility. In fact, open borders are the opposite of responsibility.
Indiscriminately opening the borders is just as bad as indiscriminately closing them, there should be a fair review process to accept some of those refugees. Expecting Mexico to become "the wall" will just stall the humanitarian crisis a few years.
We're the richest country in the world and we're denying them soap and toothbrushes, items that cost pennies in bulk. It's not about money or resource allocation, it's about cruelty.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/21/detained-mi...
No? Oh, right, I forgot we need to keep this humanitarian crisis going till the 2020 elections so that Dems can retake the White House ...