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Is it Compassion. Or is it Stupidity?

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EC:
Looking at the current SNAFU at the border is painful. Tens of thousands of kids coming in. Reports from south of the border of kids abused physically and sexually and held for ransom by the very people paid a lifetime's savings to smuggle them across. Complicit governments and cops, who probably take a handy chunk of change from the coyotes.

It's a problem.

It is easy enough to say "close the border, already!" It is doable, both technically and financially. All that is needed is the will to do so. And then what?

Can you, personally, sit there by the hypothetical border fence and watch young children suffer and starve? If you can, don't comment, I got no interest in knowing you. I'll lay money that every last person who reads this would take the time out to help any kid in need, be it by calming them down while the mall security finds their parents, feeding them, taking them to a shelter or even taking them in. People are pretty awesome even at their worst, and protecting kids is hard wired into even the grumpiest old bastard.

The Left knows this well. "Think of the children" was the go to phrase before "Racist" got it's shoes on and came out running. How many times have you heard that in the last 40 years? A million times or so? A mild exaggeration to be sure, but one that feels like the truth. Which is what makes this current invasion so dangerous. Americans can easily seem rude, loud, obnoxious, and insular. You know that, there have been enough jokes about it. Yet they are also - usually - kind hearted, expansive, charitable, and, for want of a better word, loving.

What are these kids owed? Pragmatically, nothing. Got enough neglected and suffering kids in the country already, without importing more. Yet most of them are tough as hell, willing to take risks that would make the average Millennial need to change their underwear twice, and possibly, though not definitely, an asset to the nation as a whole.

So where do you draw the line?

Chieftain:
Securing the border has to go hand in hand with a plan to repatriate these kids as quickly as possible.  They have no business being here, and the longer they stay the stronger the message remains to send even more.  One does no good without the other.

massadvj:
Personally, I draw the line at the problem, and the problem is socialism.  If there was no government assistance available for these kids, the private sector would be taking care of them and the private sector would sort it out.  There would be churches and charitable foundations down there helping people, there would be a second collection in every church in the country, and citizens would be donating millions voluntarily.  Thousands upon thousands of families would be volunteering to be foster parents.  Instead, we have a government attempting to micromanage a crisis of its own making, and we have a citizenry that is resentful and angry.

What should be done now?  The government should allow entry to anyone who comes and is not a security threat.  But it should provide zero humanitarian aid.  If individual states want to provide aid, that is up to them.  If churches want to do it, that is up to them.  It simply is not the job of the federal government to house and feed refugees.  The job of the federal government is to secure the border so that any threat to the national security can be assessed and dealt with.  Anyone who is deemed not to be a threat should be allowed entry.  But they should not be supported financially in any way, shape or form. 

That is the proper constitutional response.  However, the practical politics of the matter dictate that the president appear "caring" and that means government enabling, and so we have a snowball.

Finally, I hope someone in our government is investigating the relationship between OPapaDoc and these Mexican criminal cartels.  I suspect that there is at least a symbiotic relationship there, and perhaps more.  The situation in Central America is not significantly different than it has been in several generations.  Yet, this happens just months before a midterm election that is the last chance for this administration to salvage its social engineering ambitions; an election in which the administration had hoped to make immigration reform the central issue.  Granted, the strategy backfired on them, but the timing of everything seems to be quite a coinky dinky.

aligncare:
Compassion is a tricky matter. The question alone exposes how perplexing compassion is. Most people who are spiritually connected believe every one of god's creatures is deserving of kindness – even those who have transgressed. But, logically your kindness must be tempered by a common sense appraisal of the other's motivations and a keen awareness of possible outcomes and potential dangers to your own self from said acts of kindness.

alicewonders:
I agree that the humanitarian aid needs to come from individuals/charities rather than the government.  The government's job is to secure our border.  I'm beginning to think this "loophole in the law" regarding non-contiguous countries was created with nefarious intent.  I know the stated purpose of the law was to protect children in instances of sex trafficking - but I can't help but think it was worded in a way to create a loophole.  I believe this law was created during the Bush administration - well, he was for amnesty too, pushing for it real hard as a matter of fact.

Anyway, to address the subject of this thread - we should show compassion to the children in the form of temporary help - before they are sent back to their homelands.  Of course, this is not going to happen - this is not the intent of this crisis.  The whole point is to ship them all over the country.  The left is brilliant in the way that they plan their strategies - they not only take advantage of a crisis - they also create a crisis to take advantage of, and they will be committed to this plan for years and even generations.  You have to give them credit, for they think in terms of the long vision - I think our side has a problem with that when it comes to strategy. 

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