Why are people still having to go through rivers and deserts to get here?

I thought we were more compassionate and civilized.

At the very least we should be able to provide buses and public housing until they can get on their feet. I prefer that over detention facilities and fences.

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Then they could take a regular commercial bus to the united states. The reason they're going through the desert is to avoid the ICE.

What if a bus load of children show up? That's the problem.

(or perhaps to send transportation to wherever their journey might begin) and the provide them food and housing until they get on their feet, then why would anyone go through the lengthy paperwork process to immigrate to this country in the first place? And if you don't need any paperwork to get into this country, why should anyone need paperwork to cross the border at all?

Twelve? Eleven? Ten? Nine? Eight? And if their parents come looking for them and want to take them back, what to do?

completely open immigration policy. If you're not going to check anyone's paperwork anyway, why not let the children in too? What's the alternative? Tell them to turn around and go home when they get to the border?

Many things in our country--driving, purchasing and consuming alcohol, getting married, purchasing cigarettes, signing a contract, voting, serving in the armed services, etc. are limited by age. Even access to the internet in a public library is restricted for minors by federal law. It may not seem fair, but the fact that minors' rights are abridged in many cases is fairly widespread.

We could just build them homes with the labor of all the unemployed here now. What could go wrong?

It's strange that all these children are being abandoned...

And this has spread to other places, Guatemala, Honduras. Most of these children would not be from Mexico itself I think.

My guess is that most of these adolescents would be male and of prime killing age.

a bit of a hike.

Or maybe families are getting a little money together and sending people? I noticed in the photo clean shirts, hair cut, not particularly dirty so not outside a long time. Could have just been a file photo though.

their children on the last plan carrying children out. They knew that hard times were coming.

Have things gotten worse in Mexico? More drought? Hunger? What is going on that this change has taken place now?

There is a huge industry near the borders where people (the parents of these children) pay thousands to bring their children 'home' to the USA. We have a lot of undocumented, middle class, hard working Americans who want their children.

It's gotten much harder to cross into the USA for things like day shopping, which used to be huge for all the now closed border businesses. Now there is about a 100 mile border zone, like a no-mans land- where every car is stopped along all the highways.

Thousands by now have died in those deserts and are pulled out as corpses from Az. water canal. Az Gov. would rather let people drown in their concrete sided swift moving water canal. They have unknown name graves, hundreds! of them in their state.

This year alone-60,000 children all wanted very much by their parent (s), who happen to have made a life here in America.

We can NOT continue to put these children into the 'for profit' detention prisons!! Bad enough for all the adults in those horrible places.