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angelcerv25.livejournal.com2014-06-22 01:18 am
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This last one is much my life, one of the reasons I scoff at the "it gets better" movement. I can't use public restrooms, largely out of safety concerns.
2014-06-22
angelcerv25.livejournal.com2014-06-22 01:18 amThis last one is much my life, one of the reasons I scoff at the "it gets better" movement. I can't use public restrooms, largely out of safety concerns.
hardblue.livejournal.com2014-06-22 09:32 amImmigration Debate and Illegal Minors
Over the last two years, a crisis has developed on our Southern border: a children’s migration of increasing scale, in which thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America have made the dangerous journey to the U.S.-Mexico border, many apparently motivated by the belief that some sort of legal status awaits them. [...]
The young migrants are not, obviously, deeply familiar with the ins and outs of U.S. politics; they’re following smuggler-spread rumors, for the most part. But the rumors exist for a reason: They’re fueled by a sense that “if you want to get into the U.S., now is the time,” a scholar of Latin America told The Washington Post. And the Obama White House has conceded that a “misperception of U.S. immigration policy” is playing a role — one significant enough to dispatch Vice President Joe Biden to Central America to clarify that we are not actually opening our borders to any minor who reaches them.
-- Ross Douthat at The New York Times
Although Obama has been fairly heavyhanded in deportations, there has been some more shows of compassion toward children immigrants. And we are in the middle of another round of debate over immigration enforcement and amnesty.
