I'd like to start off by saying that I can't imagine what it is like to live in a country in the grips of the drug cartels in Honduras, Colombia, and parts of Mexico. Honduras has the highest rate of homicide in the world! I understand wanting to send your children to a better place.
But handing them over to mules is not the answer! These mules kidnap children for ransom, sell them into sex slavery and child pornography rings, even kill them if they slow up the group.
America can't even protect or feed the children who already live here. Look at the crime rate in Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, even San Antonio!
A 12 year old girl was murdered in front of her father in Detroit this past week to make her father suffer.
And immigration laws are in place for a reason. I'll grant that a majority who pass through are not a threat to national security. But who will house them? Feed them? Educate them? Growing up in a youth facility only breeds more criminals! But those who come through unregistered without permission bypass the safeguards in place that keep criminals out. Even a child can be a terrorist. Look at Afghanistan. Children are groomed to be terrorists. Granted, again, a majority are not. But I'd prefer not to live through another 9/11. Or have we forgotten how that day felt to us. A majority of our youth don't even remember that day, or the pain it caused. They learn about it from a book. Like I did about the World Wars. I'll never understand or know what actually happened during that time.
The more that come through gets us that much closer to collapsing our economy. Again, we can't feed the low income families that live here. Or protect the children of Chicago. We have no business adding to that burden. It's more precious lives lost. More mouths unfed. More children without families.
The truth is that most adoptive families don't adopt in the US. They go international. For a huge reason. To adopt in the US is an astronomical cost. $20,000 minimum for a family who wants a child to be matched with a child who wants a family.
If we stop accepting these children, who again we can't afford to house or feed (have we forgotten our HUGE national debt we have left for our children to inherit) it will benefit us and them. Growing up in a youth facility is no different than growing up in a youth detention facility.
A lot needs to happen with our immigration reform but turning a blind eye and allowing these hundreds of thousands in illegally is not the answer. Again, we can't even monitor those who come here that intend to do harm.
Do you have any idea how hard it is for Americans to immigrate to another country? There are point systems, education requirements, income requirements. We are not the only country who enact requirements to move here. Yet we are portrayed as bad guys. I don't see the EU, Canada, Australia, or any other country opening their arms to help these children.