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by wholepointofcc 2376 days ago
What responsibility is bore by the parents who willingly took them into a country where they know they would have a high likelihood of being mistreated?
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Q) "Why did you come here if you knew it would be risky?"

A) "I had no way to provide food for my family, and didn't want to be killed by drug cartels."

Millions of people live just fine in Mexico without being targeted by "The Cartels".

If you choose to enforce your presence on a country that doesn't want you, you're in the wrong.

They aren't unwanted.
Ok, you took a gamble, to illegally go into a place that ostensively doesn't want you. The gamble didn't pay off, tough luck.

What the USA is doing is inhumane (news at 11) but I have very little sympathy for people who put their children at risk like that.

I'd turn into a criminal before putting my children at risk like that. Maybe this makes me a worse person. It certainly makes me a person whose children are not in involuntary semi-permanent detention.

It would make you someone whose children are dead or enslaved.

At least, that’s the fear of those who are fleeing. I wouldn’t know how accurate their beliefs are.

Such an ugly response. Their situation is that their children are already at risk.

I don't think you grasp the severity of the situation in Mexico. Perhaps you should go strut your tough stuff over the border. The state dept advise against it due to the high levels of violence and kidnapping.

That wouldn't matter to a would-be criminal though.

Can you be sure their parents brought them over? Also, if they did, you can be sure their motivation wasn't to antagonize American citizens.
I didn't say it was. I'm saying migrating illegally to the USA is a terrible choice. Hell, legally migrating is already a questionable choice. There are better places to fight for your life.