Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Border problem

Most experts agree that the immigration system is in dire need of repair. One example is when in the spring of 2014 immigrants from Central American flowed through the southern border. The facilities were overrun and unable to cope. Children posed a particular problem because smugglers found out that it was easier to get through the process if you had children with you. This led to using children to help smugglers get them and their goods through the border. Fleeing poverty, chronic violence and joblessness, the families also were spurred by smugglers telling them that children who cross the border could generally avoid lengthy detention and certain deportation By May 4,000 adults and children were crossing each day. Migrants soon started calling the holding facilities dog pens. The situation was called intolerable by the Washington Post. Not much was reported until years later when Trump called for zero tolerance and then the news reported daily. Trump back tracked on the zero tolerance and things quieted down as fewer children came across. In the past week in response to Biden's more lenient policy the problem has come up and now these families are being kept in unacceptable conditions and Biden now finds himself in the same position that Obama was in in 2015. Seems that what goes around comes around and nothing is fixed.

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