Dantac wrote:
The mess of the situation is that if the US allows them to stay it becomes a message to everyone else that they can send their kids alone and they will be taken in. That is perhaps the worst thing that can happen because it would significantly increase the number of kids sent solo across the border which in turn means the human traffickers would increase their operations. Increase the herd, increase the predators..literally.
The so called humanitarian crisis would shift from the visible that we have now to the invisible where there will be more kids ending up dead or trafficked than those making it to the US. The media would not report it and so people in the US would end up feeling 'good' that they're helping kids although the reality is very different.
Would we prefer to send the messege....'we'll send these kids back to potential deaths and most definately severe poverty because we need our precious living space'? What do you suppose happens to these kids if we just send them back? I am pretty sure that doesn't exactly stop them from getting picked up by human traffickers in fact probably makes it easier....but I suppose so long as it goes on down in central and south america and not in the good old U.S.A its ok.
Its not a so called humanitarian crisis, it is a humanitarian crisis. Plenty of kids in those regions are already ending up dead or trafficked, hence part of the reason why maybe they are trying to come here....I would not be surprised if that has something to do with it. But then I guess most people don't actually talk to people from down there and actually listen to how it is, how dangerous it is.....there is a reason its a bad idea for white tourists to go venturing away from the tourist areas....there is lots of gang violence and yeah trafficking I imagine.
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We won't go back.