Governor offers two state sites for children crossing the border

When you find that bit where Jesus says "abortion is murder", and retracts everything he has said about taking care of other people, giving compassion to outsiders and those down on their luck, etc. etc. etc.

You do realize that these kids are being pushed to the border because they run a very high chance of being murdered if they are turned away? Of course you don't. But you wash your hands of it because it "isn't your problem", just like Judas. Even though the US destabilized these countries years ago, then created the situation that caused the violence problems by declaring a "war on drugs" rather than taking decisive steps to shrink the lucrative US market for their wares through proven public-health-based approaches to drug abuse.

Or just let me know when you have bothered to read that book you so love, rather than just thump it and assume it says what you think it does.

Catholic and pro death penalty.

I think another important aspect to discuss is that many of those children are ending up in this country not necessarily only seeking better economic conditions, but just as much seeking better safety conditions. They truly are asylum seekers in the classic vein. The drug and gang related violence, not to mention political instability, in many of those Central American countries they are fleeing is horrific.

It's funny how, in this country, we often look down our nose at places like Detroit and Chicago for the violence in their poorer neighborhoods. But compared to cities in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras these children would likely be far safer in Chicago's worst neighborhoods. In this country they actually stand a chance at growing up to be adults. I honestly think Mexico has a chance, eventually, of turning around the drug and violence issues plaguing it. But I am a lot more cynical about its southern neighbors having much luck.

Just to note, the US is not the only nation having to deal with these sorts of issues. European countries and Australia have had large numbers of people, past and present, entering illegally as asylum seekers. And as an unfortunate result, not unlike here, it has caused many xenophobic backlashes. But again, can you really blame someone for fleeing, say, Sudan?

because they'd be wearing Canadians jerseys.

Again, why are these kids fleeing conditions that existed 30 years ago?

I may seem callous about this, but I understand refugees in the Middle East and parts of Africa racked with civil war. I don't see how MS-13 or Calle 18 are recent enough to cause a very large upturn in people fleeing.

By the way, Moakley worked out a truce between the FMLN and the military, so that civil war ended.

EDIT- I admit it, I misspelled Africa, which is why I hate my iPad. Also, back in my Donkey Kong playing days I used to confuse the FSLN and FMLN, which is odd as high school policy debate then was about U.S. policy in Latin America, so I should have had that down.