[mgist]

Oops sorry

[driftdiver]

More funding, more weapons, and less oversight will all help.

That and formatting.

[demshateGod]

Marshal law, that’ll do it.

[txrefugee]

Nice try by the military to try to get more funding out of Obama, but these “children” are not coming because of drug cartels. If they are so terrified of the cartels, why are the parents giving thousands of dollars AND THIER CHILDREN to the cartels to smuggle them into Texas? This is a way to get the kids into the USA so that the family can come over and get Free Stuff, but you’ll never hear the truth from politicians and the sob-story media.

[BitWielder1]

...Some 58,000 migrant children, mostly Central Americans, have made the treacherous journey to the U.S. southern border alone...

Why do I absolutely not believe this premise, that thousands of children trekked across the Mexico desert by themselves?

[AZLiberty]

More Counter-Narcotics Funding Will Help Stem Exodus of Children from Central America

By all means, let's double down on a strategy that has failed for four decades. Even Tip O'Neill would be surprised at the totalitarian regimes -- including our own -- that the War on Drugs has produced.

[Ancesthntr]

“U.S. Military: More Counter-Narcotics Funding Will Help Stem Exodus of Children from Central America”

Ancesthntr: More .50 machine guns in towers near the border, and the willingness to use them, will help stem the exodus of children from Central America.

I am SICK AND TIRED of the excuse that border controls can’t work - when they haven’t been tried here with ANY degree of seriousness, and when they absolutely DO work overseas. How many North Koreans cross the border into South Korea? Virtually none, since the border is guarded (and those that do tend to be NK special forces types using tunnels to infiltrate). How many East Germans got out to West Germany - not very many, because the border was guarded (albeit in the opposite direction to what I’m talking about...but, nonetheless, it helps to prove the point).

FIRST guard the border, then we can have a serious discussion about immigration. Oh, and return those children to their parents/home countries - it is the humane thing to do. Yes, feed them, clothe them, make sure that they aren’t sick anymore and that any injuries that they have are attended to - but RETURN THEM!

[WilliamofCarmichael]

SOUTHCOM, via Joint Task Force Bravo

Earlier I proposed a SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Boom!

For every child we accept we drop one bomb on the source country's known gangsters or corrupt ruling class.

[ConservingFreedom]

Gen. Kelly rightly laments "the unbelievable levels of drug profits (approximately $85 billion) available to transnational criminal organizations to literally buy police departments, court systems and even governments." What he doesn't seem to realize is that the War on Drugs puts those billions in criminal hands by locking legal business out of the drug market. Eliminating drugs is as utopian a fantasy as Prohibition was - regarding drug profits, the only question is who will reap them.