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A New Commentary Each Wednesday          June 25, 2014


BIG MISTAKE: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

    I can't really blame those parents who want their children to grow up in the USA. They are sending their kids across the border hoping that they may be spared U.S. deportation. The problem is those hordes of children wading the Rio Grande—it is barely a trickle in many places these days, due to draw down of the Rio Grande for irrigation in New Mexico—do not meet the eligibility criteria.

    Coyotes are doing a land-office business in Central America and Mexico assuring families that undocumented children may someday be eligible for citizenship, although current immigration reform proposals don't make any such offer.

    I know you don't want to hear it, but here are the numbers: From October to May 31st of the 2014 fiscal year, more than 47-thousand children have been apprehended at the Southwest border. Only the Deity knows how many more made it without hindrance.

   It is a documented fact that a great percentage of the juvenile crossers are seeking to join undocumented parents who preceded them.

    What we have fellow Americans, is an invasion; you can't call it anything else and the most frequently used words to describe the situation are "humanitarian crises."  If something is not done right away, we can expect tens of thousands more. Really.

    Guess who is going to pay for safeguarding, supporting and deporting these kids? 

    It would be profoundly arrogant of us to presume to identify all of the reasons for this "influx," whether it can be blamed on corruption and crime in Latin American countries or the desire of all humans to better their conditions.

    I'll leave that to the sociologists, bureaucrats and diplomats to decide. The only thing I suggest is that we treat them humanely, then return as many of them as possible to their home countries as soon as possible.

    It appears that a "comprehensive immigration policy," whatever that means, is not on the political horizon for the foreseeable future, but some blame has to be assessed to the administration's policy of deferred deportation.

    Whether he intended for it to happen or not, the president's policies and public pronouncements opened the flood gates.

     I refuse to be so cynical as to identify this a "planned future voter enhancement" program, although it very well turn out to be one.

    One thing that needs to stop ASAP: taking car loads of them to bus stations in U.S. towns and cities. That is (you fill in the blank).

    It would not be either risky or radical to station a division of troops on the border, because The Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and all local authorities are being absolutely overwhelmed.

-Phil Richardson, Observer and Storyteller


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