Much of the discussion about this crisis focusses on the children at the border. But what about our American children? The illegal children are arriving with diseases that the American children have no immunity for - scabies, MRSA, TB, etc. We're releasing those diseases in our country, even if they just get transmitted from the border agents to their children, and their children's schoolmates.
And the money we spend to make their lives a little better could also be spent to help some of the poor kids in our inner cities.
As compassionate as we are, we just can't take in an unlimited number of poor children from other countries. And we certainly don't want the "children" who are teen aged gang members.
We know our current gov't won't discourage the mass migration, so we have to do it. Maybe it sounds cruel, but making the trip as unattractive as possible is the only way we have to stem the tide. Sure, the kids who have been sent so far will have a hard time, but we're doing favors for the ones who won't get sent in the future, and for the American kids who won't have to cope with imported diseases or overcrowded schools.