{"id":6170,"date":"2014-07-17T20:32:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T20:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/17\/border-not-secure-tell-the-detainees\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T20:32:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T20:32:35","slug":"border-not-secure-tell-the-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6170","title":{"rendered":"Border not secure? Tell the detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It\u2019s difficult to imagine the terror that young people face when they\u2019re shipped from their homes and they find themselves essentially trapped in a country that cannot accept them.<\/p>\n

Then they learn that many people in this strange country have turned on them, believing that they are somehow responsible for the plight in which they find themselves.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the United States of America, young Central American refugees.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve become disheartened by this story as it has unfolded. The young people, thousands of them children barely past toddlerhood, have been allowed passage through Mexico and into Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Reports are that they\u2019re fleeing repression, virtual enslavement and corruption in their home countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.<\/p>\n

They come here unaccompanied, sent here by parents or transported by those notorious \u201ccoyotes,\u201d who deal in human trafficking.<\/p>\n

The president of the United States is asking Congress for some extra emergency money to help repatriate these young people \u2013 humanely, of course. He\u2019s asking for money to help pay for more border security. Some in Congress don\u2019t want to spend the money \u2013 even though they demand the president does something, anything, to help stem the flood of refugees.<\/p>\n

Of all the arguments I\u2019ve heard from Barack Obama\u2019s critics, however, perhaps the most maddening in this notion that our borders are \u201cporous,\u201d that federal agents aren\u2019t enforcing immigration laws, that the country has become a \u201cmagnet\u201d for those who think it\u2019s OK just to enter the United States and they\u2019ll be given a safe place to live with no strings attached.<\/p>\n

What on Earth are these critics thinking?<\/p>\n

The borders cannot be sealed off. Still, we continue to capture illegal immigrants every single day. We\u2019re deporting them in record numbers. The tens of thousands of young people being held by federal immigration authorities were captured, for crying out loud, by officers actually enforcing U.S. immigration laws.<\/p>\n

I want this crisis to end as much as the next guy. I also want us to stop demonizing the children who are being used as pawns in this nasty struggle \u2013 and I want the critics to stop tossing out that demagogic canard that the United States is not enforcing its immigration laws.<\/p>\n

Those helpless children would beg to differ.<\/p>\n\n

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