And we can set aside whether we seem to be, whether our young people have job opportunities and whether middle-aged folks feel secure in the jobs we have--if we have a future that doesn't involve gang warfare (I guess these kids never heard about Detroit or Chicago or Los Angeles back in the day or on any bad weekend) and doesn't make them obliged to get caught up in some kind of foul business, maybe these young people just want that--not being hassled, hustled, raped, coerced or locked up for breathing. Maybe they understand what freedom is, and like that ideal.
That photo above lacks a little context. Maybe Perry is experiencing a serious moment and the president is being glib--but I doubt that. Maybe Obama clued Perry in on how his criticisms regarding the border fall short of acknowledging what is already being done. Maybe Rick Perry always has a face like an unconditioned baseball glove.
But when I see this:
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Hi Vixen, there are political failures on the left, political failures on the right, and then we have bi-partisan political failures when they get together on an issue. Outside of that, there are political failures that really cannot be laid at the feet of any specific point of view -- it was just a screw-up from the outset. Some people are fond of government, and you are seeing government in action on this issue. If you like government and want more of it, you should love what is going on at the border.
I'm so disgusted with politics I can barely stand to look at it. I care about the issue; I do not care about the politics.
I'll tell you something about the humanitarian crisis at the border that you might not know.
These children have been set adrift in the hands of ruthless criminals. They have often been raped and brutalized. In order to extort even more money from their parents, criminals have put guns to some children's heads and made them cut off a finger or ear of another child in order to send it back to the parents demanding more money.
These children are acting the way that is common when kids grow up in terrorism. Instead of crying and carrying on, there are blank stares and empty eyes just waiting for the next brutality.
If they are finally delivered to some family member or someone claiming to be a family member, it normally is in the kind of neighborhood where gangs are prevalent and embrace the new sociopath-in-training with a warm, familiar sense of belonging.
Couples have tried to adopt special needs kids from the Ukraine and other savage nations, only to discover that the child will attempt to kill her brothers and sisters because of such psychological damage they have become a sociopath.
This is why you can expect our enormous prison system to swell with even more inmates connected with gangs and violence and connections to Mexican and other cartels in the future.
Because these kids are not put right on a plane and taken back to mom and dad, some are already psychologically beyond repair.
And in this post we're not even talking about TOC responsible for this or the brutal tyrannies that are so egregious that parents are willing to pay traffickers $5000 to get their young child into the United States. Today's tragic mishandling of this crisis will mean American victims written in blood tomorrow.
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