Unaccompanied Minors Who Are Streaming Into This Hot, Flat Stretch Of

[add]

If an American abandons his or children they would go to jail and their children would be taken away.

 

42,000 minors dumped, beside the golden door.

 

Somehow I don’t think this is what Emma Lazarus meant.

 

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

 

The number of immigrant children served by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for the youth, has soared from around 7,000 to 8,000 a year earlier this decade to 13,625 in fiscal year 2012 and 24,668 last fiscal year, according to the office. So far this year, the agency has counted more than 42,000.

[add]

what a tragedy for the children,  how awful have to go through such torment, needlessly.   what a disgrace

Edited June 17, 2014 by add

[add]

http://new.americamagazine.org/issue/unaccompanied-minors-are-urgent-humanitarian-problem

[CatherineM]

I suspect it is because they believe if they go to school in the US, that they will win a green card.

[add]

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/06/19/Media-Gets-Disappointing-Look-at-TX-and-AZ-Immigrant-Detention-Centers

 

living in the lap of luxury

 

[add]

From October 1, 2013 to June 11, Border Patrol detained 378 unaccompanied children ages two or younger, according to data obtained by Fusion from the office of a high-ranking Democratic senator. Of those children, 95 were infants under 1 year old.

Only could happen in America , using babies as weapons

[CatherineM]

How does a two year old make it across the border?

[add]

one way is by train, this is for real

[CatherineM]

I'm really confused as to why we let trains like that across the border.

[God the Father]

Somehow I don’t think this is what Emma Lazarus meant.

 

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

 

Why not? Sounds pretty spot-on.
 

[superblue]

one way is by train, this is for real

I would be more worried if that train was heading out of America.

 

It would be better for any child to be dropped off on the foot steps of the American door than say the door to any country in the middle east, or north korea.

[add]

I would be more worried if that train was heading out of America.

 

It would be better for any child to be dropped off on the foot steps of the American door than say the door to any country in the middle east, or north korea.

 

yea, so?