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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (254943)7/4/2014 12:54:04 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 541605
 
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They may be doing something nobody else has been able to do; turn off the spigot. When this hits the news in Central America, maybe they will think twice before they send their kids up here for what they think is "free stuff">>

They are not sending those kids up here for "free stuff". They are sending those kids up here to escape the horrors of countries that are now all being run by organized crime and the attendant brutality.

I see those folks trying to get here as gutsy desperate people.

Not unlike the desperate people during the dust bowl who went west to try and survive.

As mentioned, I never post about immigration because I have NO answers. But I cannot just leave my humanity on the side of the road. Especially when it involves scared young mothers and children.

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