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It's super easy to hear the number of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. and react indifferent. "We can't accept everyone, right?" "What about providing services to American citizens in need before illegal immigrants?" However, after reading these individual stories of kids, some as young as my three year old son, and some as old as you, I know this is not a simple issue of arrest and deport. This is a humanitarian crisis. These are refugees. And the U.S. needs to investigate each immigrant's circumstance to determine the right course of action. Blanket actions of full deportations or full amnesty is not the answer. One might say these people's problems are not ours. But, I would disagree. Their on own doorstep. They came here. And if we are a beacon of hope in the world, then we need to act like in good times and bad. I know the solution is a hard one that will take years to put in place, but the price of inaction is too severe. This reminds of the U.S. not doing enough to accept Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany during the 1930s. In hindsight, people criticize the U.S. government then for not doing enough to help. How do you think the U.S. government should deal with the 60,000 unaccompanied children?
If these children were legal citizens of the US, they would instantly be granted food and shelter. Everyone needs a parent. Why are we denying these children the right to unite with theirs? I believe that within the second and third generations of these families, we will have potential lawyers, doctors, and teachers. So why send them away? The bottom line is they are all underage children and to send them back to a country where they are in danger of gang violence or have no guardian to take care of them is cruel and unnecessary. We need to give them a place where they can have a sense of hope.
ReplyDeleteIts just really sad. I've grown up in a Mexican family and I can relate to these children. There just kids why aren't we helping them out, it dosent matter if there not from here you cant not allow a parent to live with his/her parent. If anything we should be uniting these children with their parents. Its wrong to send them back with no guardian and no sense of judgement we should be taking care of them and give them an opportunity to help out.
ReplyDeleteThese children should not be sent back to poor living conditions and no food or shelter. I know the U.S. can't help every single child, but by simply sending them back is not the right thing to do. Just by letting them stay in the U.S. gives them a better shot at life, then sending them back to a poor country would. These children are alone and scared and don't understand why they are being turned away, which is really sad. I don't think they should be turned away, granted there situation and besides they are just kids and they are very much in need of proper living conditions and clean food/water. Although, they may not be legal children the U.S. needs to look past that and remember that they still are children.
ReplyDeleteKnowing that the US neglect a lot of kids that come here just to receive better health , living conditions and food is really sad. It is hard to help them but don't just send them back, they deserve better. Every child deserves to have good living conditions and that is what a lot of children are trying to find. They want a better life and just sending them back will not help
ReplyDeleteI agree that it's easy to for people to think that they aren't effecting this problem. But in reality, it's undeniable that everyone throughout the United States, whether they believe it or not, is effecting this problem. It's heartbreaking to read the stories of those kids; their parents left them to go to the United States to try and make more money and create a better future for their child(ren), and the parents left them in the hands of a caretaker. In all the stories in the article, something happened to the caretaker that forced the kids to make the hard journey to the US to find their parents. So many people turn their heads to these kids, and I think that the government should create an organization to help these kids and provide them with a temporary home before their refugee trial decides their fate.
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These children should not be sent back because they came over here for a reason. Why? Maybe there living conditions and shelter were horrible and had a sense of hope that if they came over to the U.S they would have better living conditions and shelter. Also they might have made the journey to make it all the way over here to have a better life, to learn how to speak english, to get an education, to get a job, just do something productive with their life so they can either get away and become something successful in life or so just they can support their family back home. Main reason why they came to the states is simply just to have a better life, and have a shot at life. So why would you want to take that away from them?
ReplyDeleteI wholeheartedly agree with the other commenters above in saying that these children should not be sent back. These immigrants came from their home towns in Central America all the way to the United States so they could be with their parents again and it would be incredibly immoral to take that away from them. On the other hand, the unaccompanied children also should not be turned away. If they have left their previous lives and come to the U.S. in hopes for a better one, there should be no reason for the "land of the free" to deny them from trying.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Miranda-- there needs to be some sort of support system for these children. They had all gone through so much already, and the refugee trial system is just another thing keeping families apart. Also, since many of them do not speak English well, the trials are more difficult than they should be. There should not be so many regulations on immigration because America always has been and always will be a country made of immigrants. From the settlers from England and France to the people arriving today, every single person or someone in their family came to America hoping for something better. We are in no place to be excluding others who are in the same situation that we were in once upon a time.
ReplyDeleteIt seems ironic that these children fled from their countries because they were escaping from either personal, economic, political situations, but once they arrived to the States, they were hardly in a better position than their previous one. I think that there should be a limit on the amount of immigrants coming to America every year, but who receive the same rights and services that American children have access to. In addition, to accommodate for the rest of the children outside of the limit, the U.S. government should work to establish organizations in different countries across the world in which the children have access to any necessities or desires that they wish to be fulfilled as if they were actually in America.
ReplyDeleteThese children need to be in a safe place. They are coming to the U.S because of the violence that is occurring in their country. We can't deny them help. Also, imagine being separated from your parents and have to live without them for many years. It's heartbreaking to hear that there's people out there that want to arrest them and send them back. You are putting their lives in danger if you send them back. They are no harm towards us, it's even possible that later in the future they can become very successful people. We cant take away their opportunity at a better life.
ReplyDeleteThe US should not deport these children because they might have already adjusted to things here. They could been brought to the US because this way they would be given a better life then in their country. A lot of times the children's parents bring them to protect them from the dangers in their country. The US should protect these children instead of trying to deport them back to their country. They be doing a great thing to improve their lives.
ReplyDeleteI think that the US would make a horrible and I humane decision if they deported all these innocent children back to their home lands. Being an immigrant my self, I know the difficult path that these kids went through, and now it's simpler tougher and tougher. These kids come to the US for a reason, and that is because their country can not provide them with the protection the US government does. All these kids want is to better them selfs, and provided their family with all the help that they can in the future. These kids come here to work hard so that they cod better themselves, they are not here to be criminals. All these kids want is a bright future, which other kids that live here legally throw away in the trash not know how valuable it is to someone else. In conclusion, the US can not take car of every single kid because their is simply to many. But deporting them is flat out wrong. They need to come up with a better solution.
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