Yup. There is one crazy in every family.
but then even a broken clock is right twice a day:
The WAPO from Jan 2016 noted there were some problems:
National Obama administration placed children with human traffickers, report says...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) has demanded a response from the Obama administration to whistleblower claims that thousands of those children have been released to sponsors with criminal records that include homicide, child molestation and human trafficking.
Legal advocates for the children say many have wound up in abusive situations, where they have been forced to work to repay debts or living expenses.
Some children simply stop showing up for immigration hearings and vanish. “We have a large percentage of these kids that disappear, and I don’t know what happens to them,” said Jessica Ramos, a lawyer with Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, an Ohio nonprofit group that represents children in immigration proceedings.The cage story is making people hysterical, but a lot of those hysterical weren't worried about these kids when there was a Democratic president.
And few of them bother to suggest any alternatives. Although foster care sounds great, if the "parents" aren't screened, you have problems. And then a lot of these kids are so old that it is hard to find them a place.
I am cynical, because the outbreak of this meme is so huge and so sudden, it makes one wonder: Where were all these people in January? or in 2014?
The outrage puppets doesn't care about migrants, you know: It's about the midterm elections, and to distract people from the fact that maybe, just maybe, the Korean war is finally over.
And as I mentioned before: Trumpie boy will play them for fools by encouraging Ryan to push an immigration bill so they will look like fools if they vote for it, but look like worse fools if they oppose it on trivial problems.
a Newsweek article (May 3,2018) summarizes what is going on:
... (HHS) Administration for Children and Families spokesperson Kenneth Wolfe told Newsweek on Wednesday that it had as many as 10,852 undocumented children in its custody—a significant jump from the 8,886 that were in the agency...
In fiscal year 2013, under the Barack Obama administration, the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) had as many as 25,000 unaccompanied children in its care across 80 shelters, according to a July 2014 article in Mother Jones.
italics mine.
Mother Jones: July 2014:
70,000 Kids Will Show Up Alone at Our Border This Year. What Happens to Them?
as usual, MomJones has a lot of good information there.
what is missing: Statistics on how many are "children" i.e. under age 12, how many are unaccompanied by family, and how many are actually old enough to work (over age 12).
and lots of these kids aren't kids: I remember the kids in my son's ESL seventh grade class: He was 16 but many of the other kids there who were supposed to be minors were acgtually over 18... but wanted a US high school diploma to get a better job.
Of course, that was in the days when no one cared much about immigration back in the 1980s.
as for the USCatholic bishops and churches: these institutions are the front line for caring for the poor, children, and migrants.
No, not their "SJW" who demonstrate, complain, and raise money, but at the parish level and love their free publicity. But ordinary folks helping each other.
My son's parish has a place for them to find help with jobs and legal problems, and a food bank to help make ends meet. And many other parishes and churches all over have similar programs.
and this doesn't include the person to person help by families to family members and friends.
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update: Democrats refuse to help pass a bill to keep families together at the border.
Gee, I wonder why.
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