Children Fleeing to America, but who cares? by WileyFoxes

Perhaps 90,000 children will cross illegally into the U.S. this year to get away from gang violence in the Latin American countries they come from ... Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, etc.

Of course, we act like it is not our problem, not our responsibility.  But, shouldn't the country causing most of the violence be responsible for taking care of these children.  As you might guess, gang violence is rampant in countries like Honduras.  The gangs are funded by the selling of drugs to America, lately a lot of heroin, but there is no shortage of cocaine and designer drugs either. Americans buy and order it, they deliver.  The kids of the supplying countries suffer thanks to us.  Our 70 or so school shootings in this country in the last eight months are nothing compared to the murder rate in places like Honduras.  Our 10,000 killings with guns each year are small potatoes on a per capita basis.

They say the definition of stupid is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  I can remember the War on Drugs when I was a small kid growing up in El Paso.  It was mostly pot in those days, today of course, it is mostly heroin on our streets.  There is no shortage of drugs, never has been, never will be.  (I hear we have apparently slowed down pot a little.)  The only thing that varies is the number of people willing to use them.  And yet, the War goes on.  Stupid, but not the point of this blog.

So our stupid War on Drugs goes on.  Children in the countries supplying us drugs are fleeing to us for help.  And, guess what we are telling them.  After due process, we are sending them back.  And the Republicans and Democrats argue about our border policies, our immigration policies, each blaming the other for the catastrophe.  They are right, each is to blame, but it is our War on Drugs not our Immigration Policies that are causing the humanitarian crisis.

Our plan is to send them back home to die, but out of our sight.  Back to their violent homes where we don't have to assume any of the responsibilities for our actions, our policies.  That is just the kind of people we are in this country.  After all, the War on Drugs is righteous.

These children are on our door step.  There is a chance to do good here, but today we are arguing about what kind of military help to give Iraq -- its a stage where we can show our almighty and righteous power.