I would remind my friend, Marty Deputy, that, just as Obama says the US cannot be the world’s policeman, It also cannot be the world’s orphanage.
Having cared for children from Central America both in my home and abroad, I know it’s easy to get lost in trying to take care of every precious child in the world. That isn’t practical, and you do an inferior job of it for each child when you focus on the masses. You have to take each child and try to do the best you can for that individual.
Mass, uncontrolled immigration is not only potentially deadly for the children involved, it is potentially deadly for American citizens. There has been no effective health screening of the tens of thousands of immigrants, and diseases have crossed the border, as well. Seventy-one of these immigrants were from Ebola stricken West Africa.
Travel across Central America and Mexico has always been dangerous. It is dangerous for groups of adults. I know. I’ve been there when I thought my life would be measured in minutes! The growth of powerful drug cartels has made this all of this area increasingly lawless.
It is criminal to entice families to send their children unaccompanied on such a journey.
Immigration law needs to be reformed when the borders are secure. We can, of course, assimilate the children already here if we do it properly. Putting them en masse on buses or planes without proper screening and identification and dumping them surreptitiously across the country, as Obama has done, is not the proper way.
Marty knows very well that South Central Kentucky has accommodated enough refugees in the last 40 years to fulfill our humanitarian obligations for this century and the next.
Let’s use some common sense along with our humanitarianism!
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