It depends on where the house is located, doesn't it? A nice little house in a prosperous town near the Capitol is a lot safer than a house adjacent to the illicit coca plantations, or where traffickers kidnap children to supply the brothels, or where indigenous people are murdered for getting in the way of illegal logging operations.
That is a moot point as the man's mother admitted they were not "fleeing" violence or danger. So wherever they lived before wasn't that dangerous.
They just wanted to make more money, and risked their lives to enter US illegally. Remember, economic migration is not legitimate grounds for asylum!
Welcome to the 21st Century.
Migration isn't going to stop just because you don't like it.
There is a mass migration pressure, but that doesn't mean US and EU should throw up our hands in defeat or even actively support it. We need to resist illegal migration and we need to increase our efforts to fight it to withstand the migration pressure, not provide further pull factors by giving illegals driver's licenses, healthcare and path to citizenship.
People feeling endangered or oppressed are going to seek asylum in places where they believe they can be safe and prosperous. Right now, the US is at or near the top of that list. We're going to have migrants and asylum seekers show up at our borders, and we need to do our best in addressing the issue, not our worst.
'Addressing the issue' means stemming the flow, not taking all these people in, which merely encourages more to come.
Remember what happened to Europe when Angela Merkel threw flood gates open for Syrians. The word spread, and suddenly millions of mass migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria etc. made their way to Europe, most of them wanting to come to Germany or Sweden.
Why aren't there more judges and investigators being assigned to work the asylum applications?
You can't just build judges on demand like units in Command&Conquer. There is a limited number of judges and a greatly increased number of mass migrants.
Why weren't there child care providers and facilities already in place before children were separated from their families? Why was the government unprepared to house the people it chose to imprison indefinitely? Why is there no accountability for the lack of adequate food, supplies, medical care, and proper treatment of people in custody?
Because all of a sudden 100,000 mass migrants per month decided to show up.
And why not allow asylum seekers to live in semi-supervised housing, get jobs, and become self sufficient while their applications are being processed?
Sounds interesting, depending on what you mean by "semi-supervised". Maybe you should propose it to your congresscritter.
What purpose does it serve to treat people like criminals for exercising their rights under international law and the Constitution?
Sorry, but you do not have the right to claim asylum if all you want is make money and build a house. That's the chief problem with the asylum system as it exists today. If asylum in any form is to survive, it must be fundamentally reformed to deter abuse.
I think the answer to those questions is bigotry and xenophobia, with a heaping helping of I've Got Mine, So Fuck 'Em. And that's appalling. I want better for my country than to be guided by assholes and misanthropes like Trump.
It's not bigotry or xenophobia to not want your country overwhelmed by mass migration.
