Thanks for the thread, Knightraven.

P.S. Judi Lynn has several threads over in the Good Reads Forum related to this subject, here's one of them.

This is a thing to me due to the way I live. Both sides of the border is home to me. And as I said, I have not seen anything like this before.

Hard to imagine anyone being desperate enough to send their children across countries alone. Especially, when the destination is here and Texas or Arizona in particular.

i can't imagine the desperation leading to such actions myself. Then again, I work with many immigrants and some of those, especially from Cambodia and Vietnam tell such horror that I am sure any parent would send their children anywhere they thought was safer even if they couldn't go along.

As bad as it can seem here sometimes, at least it isn't that bad yet. Of course, due to us, some Iraqi parents are undoubtedly feeling those pressures as we post.

Then they are getting shipped to Arizona. I also herd they will be sending them to military bases. Why would the seem kids to military base, I don't know. This whole thing is bizarre.

It is very much an unprecedented and confusing situation.

I have heard all kind of "reasons" but nothing has been really pin pointed. I even heard some guy on one of the news shows say it was Obama's fault. I kid you not. He was serious!

But they have facilities for people to live and some states are reducing all public housing and social services. They are being utilized as emergency housing now and as the funding is federal, the states still escape paying for the care of people there.

I agree with those who say, despite some negative coverage of alleged gang members, that this is a flood of those who are as desperate as any person on a sinking ship.

The horrible number of women and girls murdered, and otherwise abused is part of the daily war on women worldwide, that seems to have no end in sight. The UN has rightly called many aspects of the treatment of females crimes against humanity but some have decided that females don't meet their standards of being human.

Which says quite a bit about them. And I don't think the way that the boys are forced into gangs is going to liberate them, either.

OTOH, these acts are part of open warfare, to rob people in a region of their rights and drive people off land, implemented by criminal gangs who do the same thing. Although they are supposedly only intending to make money off all this, I don't see much diference ikn actions done than the Taliban, ISIL or Boko Harum.

These are crimes commited for the purpose of enriching the actors and controlling resources, either by depopulation through terror, or just outright slaughter. I think the religion and ideology are added to excuse the profit from warfare.

I think it would help us in the USA to understand this is what we will face if we don't confront the effects of inequality in a way that lifts up all of us. If society does not do that, people will find ways to survive such as being in gangs. And by this, I call the groups we hear about in the news, nothing but gangsters.

5 hours 14 minutes ago by Nathan O'Neal
Gov. Brewer speaks out on migrant children crisis

TUCSON - State leaders in Arizona, Texas and Oklahoma lobbed harsh criticism at the federal government's handling of the influx of immigrant children fleeing from Central America.

White House officials cite poverty and violence as contributing factors behind the surge in immigrant children showing up in the United States.

State leaders voiced their criticism of the way the Obama Administration has handled the humanitarian crisis.

While the White House plans to inject millions of dollars into Central American countries to try and stem the flow of illegal immigration, some border states are taking matters into their own hands.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry ordered a surge of patrols along the border by its Department of Public Safety with funding of up to $1.3 million per week.

Jun 19, 2014 9:17 PM by Lupita Murillo
Boycott Mexico over the migrant children crisis?

TUCSON - The crisis of unaccompanied minors from Central America is making national headlines.
Wednesday night, on the O'Reilly Factor the television host and political commentator called on Americans to boycott Mexico.

O'Rilley says the Marine held in a Mexican jail for taking weapons across the border and, Mexico not enforcing its immigration laws and letting the children cross into the U.S. are his reasons for supporting a boycott.

Krista Steffen just got back from Rocky Point where she owns a home with her mother. She has no intentions of boycotting Mexico. "I think we all tend to go towards the defenseless, but I just don't think you should boycott any country based on somebody's feelings on an issue."

Felipe Garcia of Visit Tucson believes it would be an economic disaster if there was a boycott. "I think there are problems that need to be fixed in Mexico, immigration law and enforcement of immigration law, but aside from that fact I don't think it's a solution to call for a boycott."