Once upon a time, a young drug dealer named Jojo ran out of product to push on children at the local Middle School. He was very depressed because the US Border Patrol had seized a shipment of cocaine the cartel had meant for him. He was distraught and feared he might have to resort to running a chop-shop or prostitution ring if he couldn’t get enough dope to sell to kids.
The Department of Homeland Security decided it would be more
compassionate to give Jojo the shipment they confiscated at the border. After
all, they had already arrested the drug mule that tried to bring it in. Jojo
was so grateful he wrote a personal note of thanks to President Obama, and the
children at the Middle School lived high ever after.
Okay, I said it was a fairy tale. The entire story premise
is absurd. Why would anyone in our government want to forward the interdicted
package confiscated from smugglers to the intended criminal recipient? That is
precisely what Texas US District Judge Andrew S. Hansen thought when he
discovered a DHS policy regarding smuggled children of illegal immigrants (see http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/19/judge-claims-dhs-parents-smuggle/).
Is this a great country or what? The people running the US
Border Patrol and responsible for securing our borders are in fact complicit in
breaking the very law they are charged with enforcing. Talk about the fox
guarding the hen house …
We have people who are living in the country illegally now
paying smugglers to bring their children across the border. When the Border
Patrol catches them entering illegally, they reward the parents by dropping the
kids on their doorstep. Apparently, two wrongs do make a right!
So now, we have a whole family of people living illegally in the country. Isn’t that heartwarming? Now the children can go to American schools and are now eligible for education under the Dream Act. In California and several other states, they can get drivers licenses when they turn 16, and with Obamacare they can now get healthcare under their parents’ insurance.
Their parents can’t legally get a social security card …
yet, but they and their children can get disability coverage even though they
never paid a dime toward it. If they or their parents can’t find a job, they
can go on welfare. And oh, by the way, if the parents are collecting welfare,
they now have increased their support from taxpayers by increasing the family
size in the US.
Now that Obama has managed to pack critical government
offices with liberals, it’s not surprising that the DHS claims this is the
“compassionate” thing to do. They claim they are uniting families. But if they
deported the parents, as the law requires, the family would be united in their
home country. Is that any less compassionate?
All right, I get it. Central America is a dangerous place.
The drug cartels are the de facto government in most of those countries.
Violence, murder, kidnappings, and crime are a way of life and amount to big
business there. It is hard to make an honest living in places like that.
The fact is, though, someone down there is living large.
There are big (legitimate) businesses in those countries. Mexico had a higher
GDP than Canada last year. With NAFTA the law of the land, many of the products
we buy here are manufactured in Central America. If the crime rate and living
standard were on par with us, there would be no reason to cross our border
illegally. Their governments need to get their act together, oust the drug
cartels, execute cartel leaders, eradicate the drug crops, seriously clamp down
on corruption, and let the legitimate business environment spread its benefit
throughout the land.
If we deport the 22 million illegals now here and keep them
from coming back, maybe – just maybe – they might force their own governments
to do the right thing. Now that’s compassion bound to last.
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