And a response from the so called "greatest nation" to the current humanitarian crisis reflecting a majority of children seeking shelter and safety in the US as they all come from shitholes like El Salvador and Honduras is to deport them where they came from?
US can't absorb all the people who would like to come here. Allowing these illegals to stay would only encourage more to come. Where does it end? And there is a definite ethnic imbalance here with hispanics being much more likely to come here illegally than other groups due to such things as ease of access (no ocean barrier, existing coyote networks, powerful hispanic illegal lobby groups in the US). Nothing against hispanics per se, but any single group heavily dominating immigration for decades is not healthy.
To note of course the inconsistency among so many GOP political mouthpieces who have never hesitated to infuse their religious piety into their motivations to push for one legislation or the other and are now portraying those kids as "invaders" while their protesting supporters are seen throughout media reports holding signs mentioning "diseases"....oh this is the most appropriate time to challenge them with "WWJD", the very Jesus they all claim to follow.
I am neither a Republican nor Christian so I do not see relevance to my position.
However, the illegals from Latin America tend to be poor, uneducated and religious, most particularly conservative Catholic and even more conservative charismatic Evangelical. Continued influx of millions will ensure US stays a deeply religious country even as homegrown population grows less so. Why do many secular liberals support unrestricted illegal immigration from Latin America then? Well, as Robert Frost said "A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." Sure, these hispanics might get locked into voting Democratic like blacks due to identity politics (which is so strong now that
Harry Reid thinks Clarence Thomas is "white"). However, it will change the Democratic Party into a more religious, socially conservative one. It could be seen in 2008 with Prop 8. Even though Obama got 61% of the vote, Prop 8 still passed, thanks mostly to socially conservative, but still D voting, blacks and hispanics.
inducing panic and paranoia with the outrageous claim of a threat of Ebola.
Maybe not Ebola, but things like lice and TB are a definite concern.
Mind you we are in 2014 and in a nation which claims to lead the First World. Yet we are reminded today that there are some Americans who still stagnate in ignorance and prejudice as they are "bed companions". And those Americans can so easily be manipulated by the GOP because they are so ignorant.
There is ignorance on both sides. Like progressives/liberals believing that US can absorb millions of illegal 3rd world immigrants without becoming increasingly 3rd World itself.
I am not against immigration. I am an immigrant myself. But I did it legally and I recognize that there is a limit to how many immigrants a society/country can reasonably absorb without being overwhelmed, both financially and culturally.