Posted on 08/04/2014 2:08:33 PM PDT by MNDude
Title: Geraldo Rivera: Scare Tactics, Public Hysteria Only Deepen Immigration Crisis
President Obama is right to call the surge a humanitarian crisis, one he must bear part of the blame in creating by not understanding how his message of compassion toward earlier waves of immigrant children was being misconstrued in the civil anarchy of Central America. He should have spotted this trend a year ago and moved to counter the misinformation being spread by immigrant smugglers and local media that undocumented, unaccompanied minors would be welcome, if only they could make it across.
Still, these children cannot now be deported cavalierly back to those home countries they have risked life and limb to flee. All must be granted full, fair hearings to determine whether they deserve “refugee-status” and are therefore able to stay in this country for fear they will be victimized if deported back. Those refugee laws should be liberally applied in deference to our tradition of compassion toward the young and needy. The dysfunctional governments of their home countries must also be held accountable for the moral and financial burden the children are placing on the United States.
I merely make the point that the arrival at our doorstep of 57,500 children from October 2013 through June 2014, while alarming, is not an existential crisis for the United States. We could feed every poor child in Central America with the excess food we toss into our dumpsters. Sponsors are being found to care and supervise youngsters who’ve recently arrived.
Whatever happens with the kids, or those thousands who will surely follow, the Republic will survive.
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
And that is exactly what the left wants us to do. Work, and pay for other peoples’ kids.
Sorry. You have made it impossible for us to work, and to support our own kids.
seriesly Jeraldo
stfu
Obama didn’t realize how his comments would be taken? Yes, he did. He laid out the freshly swept Welcome mat himself. He wants this chaos. He wants the gangs. He wants the terrorists. He wants the disease to overwhelm our system and lead to demands for single payer health care and communism. Cloward-Piven.
Post of the day!
What’s this “we” sh*t homie?
What a country.
A woman in Florida lets her kid go to the park without her and she gets pinched for child abuse.
Thousands of women in the banana republics are shipping their kids on a thousand plus mile trip, alone, to an unknown fate and we’re supposed to celebrate this? That is the ultimate act of child abuse
Letting your kid go down the street to the park to play = child abuse
Using your kid to invade another country as an economic human shield = Jackpot!
No we could not.
The American Government and hundreds of citizens groups, charitable groups have poured billions of dollar into Africa for the past 50 years and they are still starving. It is not about money or food.
What’s wrong with sending them to Mexico? Except that Mexico is intolerant of illegal immigrants?
Send them to Cuba. It was good enuff for Elian Gonzalez.
Still, these children cannot now be deported cavalierly back to those home countries they have risked life and limb to flee.
Of course they can be..
They have no right to be here.
Thousand of people come to America legally and follow the procedure to become citizens because we have laws that set forth that process. Allow invaders to stay is a slap in the face to all those that followed the law.
...to Michael Moore.
Geraldo, you need medical help for stupidity.
... Especially now that most of them have abandoned Central America for points north.
I want those children to eat.......IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES.
The can create their own "Utopia".
show them how to feed themselves
As soon as every last one of them is sterilized.
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