Americans are accustomed to seeing reports of refugees swamping the borders of countries abroad - Syrians fleeing to Turkey, Sudanese streaming to South Sudan. But they arent accustomed to seeing such flights of humanity on their doorstep.
The escalating numbers of young children arriving alone at the U.S. border with Mexico, many of them younger than 13, prompted the president to declare a humanitarian crisis on Monday.
The issue has brought to light a divide; those who believe in stronger immigration enforcement blame the president and consider the arrivals an immigration enforcement problem. Groups who work with children who have crossed the border alone say the nation is experiencing its own refugee crisis as children flee violence in their home countries.
Full story here: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/a...is-u-s-n121441 and here: A U.S. refugee crisis of epic proportionshttp://www.cnn.com/2014/06/13/us/immigration-undocumented-children-explainer/index.html
Now I understand there are some suck ass places to live in the world, but why do we have to always be the ones to bail everyone out?? Why can't people in these countries use a fucking condom?? If you live in a shithole that isn't suitable for raising kids, then don't have the god damn kids. And who in the **** ships off their kid with a note to a foreign country?? It seems to me this is just another case of a lack of personal responsibility. I understand that sometimes people get caught in bad situations, but this is getting out of hand.
The escalating numbers of young children arriving alone at the U.S. border with Mexico, many of them younger than 13, prompted the president to declare a humanitarian crisis on Monday.
The issue has brought to light a divide; those who believe in stronger immigration enforcement blame the president and consider the arrivals an immigration enforcement problem. Groups who work with children who have crossed the border alone say the nation is experiencing its own refugee crisis as children flee violence in their home countries.
Full story here: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/a...is-u-s-n121441 and here: A U.S. refugee crisis of epic proportionshttp://www.cnn.com/2014/06/13/us/immigration-undocumented-children-explainer/index.html
Now I understand there are some suck ass places to live in the world, but why do we have to always be the ones to bail everyone out?? Why can't people in these countries use a fucking condom?? If you live in a shithole that isn't suitable for raising kids, then don't have the god damn kids. And who in the **** ships off their kid with a note to a foreign country?? It seems to me this is just another case of a lack of personal responsibility. I understand that sometimes people get caught in bad situations, but this is getting out of hand.