Brian4Liberty
07-01-2014, 10:55 AM
This is tragic, but should be handled with extreme caution.
On the one hand, these kids have a very valid humanitarian justification for getting out of their current situation.
On the other hand, it would be prudent to be extremely selective in which individuals are allowed in. While they are always called "children" by the media, the majority are teenagers or young adults aged 13-17. There is a very real danger of importing violent gang members. They are coming from global murder capitals.
And this completely ignores the interests of the US. The feel-good aspect of charity is obvious, but there are other motivations like the voting demographic ambitions of Democrats and of course the corporatist interest in cheap labor. Then there are financial considerations. As with policing the world, is it the responsibility of the US taxpayer to attempt to remedy every tragedy, disaster, outrage or crime on the planet?
Hometowns Of Undocumented Central American Children Among World’s Most Violent
Many of the Central American children overwhelming authorities at the U.S. Southwest border left cities that rank among the world’s most violent, according to an internal government report.
The coastal Honduran city of San Pedro Sula was by far the most common origin of Central American children caught by Border Patrol while trying to sneak across the U.S. border over a 4½ month period; nearly three times as many children said they came from San Pedro Sula than from any other city in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
San Pedro Sula has the highest murder rate in the world — around four times higher than that of the most violent U.S. city, Detroit.
San Salvador and Guatemala City were also among the top 10 hometowns of children caught by the Border Patrol. The murder rates of both are among the top 30 highest in the world, according to data complied by a Mexico-based security think tank. (Guatemala City’s murder rate was the eighth highest in the world in 2013, with more than 2,000 murders among a population of 3.1 million.)
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More:
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/jun/30/hometowns-undocumented-central-american-children-a/
On the one hand, these kids have a very valid humanitarian justification for getting out of their current situation.
On the other hand, it would be prudent to be extremely selective in which individuals are allowed in. While they are always called "children" by the media, the majority are teenagers or young adults aged 13-17. There is a very real danger of importing violent gang members. They are coming from global murder capitals.
And this completely ignores the interests of the US. The feel-good aspect of charity is obvious, but there are other motivations like the voting demographic ambitions of Democrats and of course the corporatist interest in cheap labor. Then there are financial considerations. As with policing the world, is it the responsibility of the US taxpayer to attempt to remedy every tragedy, disaster, outrage or crime on the planet?
Hometowns Of Undocumented Central American Children Among World’s Most Violent
Many of the Central American children overwhelming authorities at the U.S. Southwest border left cities that rank among the world’s most violent, according to an internal government report.
The coastal Honduran city of San Pedro Sula was by far the most common origin of Central American children caught by Border Patrol while trying to sneak across the U.S. border over a 4½ month period; nearly three times as many children said they came from San Pedro Sula than from any other city in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
San Pedro Sula has the highest murder rate in the world — around four times higher than that of the most violent U.S. city, Detroit.
San Salvador and Guatemala City were also among the top 10 hometowns of children caught by the Border Patrol. The murder rates of both are among the top 30 highest in the world, according to data complied by a Mexico-based security think tank. (Guatemala City’s murder rate was the eighth highest in the world in 2013, with more than 2,000 murders among a population of 3.1 million.)
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More:
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/jun/30/hometowns-undocumented-central-american-children-a/