06-28-2018, 07:10 PM
(06-28-2018, 01:22 PM)Maggot Wrote: 85% do not fit the asylum qualifications. Fleeing violence may be an excuse that is used but coming to America to get medical help, housing and food would be reason enough to head north. America is a magnet for people in need of social services.
BG is done with this thread and I can understand that. Illegal is Illegal. We have ports of entry and when they are not used it is a crime. It is also a crime to subject children to unwarranted neglect by subjecting them to such hardship. Children are taken from citizens for the same crime every day in the U.S.
I went to a presentation where some who had been at the border explained things a little better. I know it has been talked about-but it helped me understand. Especially when they used personal stories-
Such as a lady who had a business and was being threatened if she didn't start selling drugs for the gangs.
Or another family whose 9 year old son was threatened if he didn't join the gang-because he was tall for his age.
Some of these come up to the point of entry and are denied. Denied repeatedly, or just told things like, "Sorry, we aren't taking Hondurans today"
So they wait on this bridge that is hot, they have no shade, no resources, so yeah, then they decide to cross the river or enter illegally and suffer the consequences that they may or may not know about. Some have already left some children behind and have probably only brought the youngest ones.
What I don't clearly understand is why Mexico isn't being able to help these people-and apparently it is just as bad there, so staying there isn't an option.
Yes illegal is illegal-but doing what was done to these people can't be legall. And just saying things like, "Well it is the Dem's fault, or Obama started it, or Well, they didn't solve it either" IS NOT A SOLUTION. FFS.
Sorry I haven't visited your solution thread Maggot.
I heard there was a program in place-that was succesful-and it ended. I will get the program name. The governement was reporting that people did not show up to their hearings and that was false. These people are not the criminals they are made out to be.