{"id":3470,"date":"2014-07-13T09:14:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T13:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2014-07-13T10:07:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T14:07:44","slug":"illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=3470","title":{"rendered":"illegal immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BorderFenceImage_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3472\" alt=\"BorderFenceImage_jpg_800x1000_q100\" src=\"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BorderFenceImage_jpg_800x1000_q100-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>Once again our leaders have managed to do what-should-be the impossible.\u00a0 They have managed to politicize a problem instead of solve it <i>(sigh).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Please pause for a moment before throwing the first proverbial stone in yet another ad hominem attack.\u00a0 One of the aspects that most gets my goat or some other colloquial critter is how we say \u201cyeah, but\u201d when justifying our response&#8230;\u00a0<i>\u201cYeah, but he did it first&#8230;\u00a0 Yeah, but it was the President&#8230;\u00a0 yeah, but Congress&#8230;\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 \u201cYeah but\u2019s\u201d are the intellectuals covert, clever means of justifying something within their own response that doesn\u2019t make total logical or compassionate sense.\u00a0 \u201cYeah but\u2019s\u201d are what allow both our current President and Congress to politicize a problem instead of solve it.\u00a0 We have a problem with illegal immigration &#8212; especially now with child migrants.<\/p>\n<p>This is a tough one, friends.\u00a0 I remember as a hope-filled child, proudly singing those words with my elementary peers&#8230;\u00a0<i> \u201cGive me your tired, your poor&#8230; Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;\u00a0 the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.\u00a0 Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.\u00a0 I lift my lamp beside the golden door!\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Today there are huddled massed just across the Texas border, masses no doubt yearning to breathe free.<\/p>\n<p>First, a brief synopsis of the facts so we can speak intelligently <i>(and avoid the \u201cyeah, but\u2019s\u201d):<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 52,000 children have been picked up illegally crossing the border since October \u2014 nearly double last year&#8217;s total and 10 times 2009\u2019s numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Most are from Central America and are unaccompanied by adults.<\/li>\n<li>Many are motivated by safety concerns in their own country.<\/li>\n<li>Many believe they will not be deported, due to both rumors and public statements by our government.<\/li>\n<li>U.S. policy allows Mexican child migrants to be deported quickly.<\/li>\n<li>A 2008 law calls for all Central American children to be given a court hearing; the purpose of that law was to combat child trafficking.<\/li>\n<li>Court hearings often take up to 2-3 years to take place; many often fail to appear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Immigration policy has long been the balance of logic and compassion <i>(&#8230;remember the two things the \u201cyeah, but\u2019s\u201d allow our leaders to omit).<\/i>\u00a0 We can\u2019t allow for total amnesty, as that doesn\u2019t address the very real motive of many in this world, whose chief desire is to destroy America <i>(see September, 2001).<\/i>\u00a0 We also can\u2019t simply arrest and ship home, as that doesn\u2019t recognize those tired and poor masses that our country was founded upon to serve.\u00a0 So what do we do?\u00a0 While by no means do any of us know exactly <strong><em>the<\/em><\/strong> way to solve this problem, let the Intramuralist submit a means of where to &#8212; and to not &#8212; begin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t begin by simply throwing more money at the problem.\u00a0 As a whole for years, our government has not acted faithfully with our money \u2014 spending too much on political priorities; hence, hiring more agents, judges, etc. means increased debt, and it doesn&#8217;t solve the long term problem.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t begin by fortifying the border.\u00a0 That takes time. \u00a0Securing the border doesn&#8217;t solve the short term problem.<\/p>\n<p>What we do first in my semi-humble opinion is semi-simple.\u00a0 We ask the Central American governments to get involved.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have to solve the problem alone, but until they choose to be responsible for a solution governing their own people, we halt their current financial aid.\u00a0 Collectively, the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras receive <i>over a billion dollars annually<\/i> in military and economic assistance from the U.S.\u00a0 Granted, we need to be sensitive here, as we don\u2019t want to destabilize the drug-infested area significantly more, but it is logical to expect these governments to be part of the solution and not just the problem.<\/p>\n<p>What we do second is less simple.\u00a0 Our leaders need to gather together, with no political strategists or schemers \u2014 maybe no cameras \u2014 role up their sleeves, and set all political motives aside.\u00a0 <i>That means not adopting <\/i><b><i>any<\/i><\/b><i> policy motivated by how it impacts a specific voting bloc.<\/i>\u00a0 Together they must develop a logical, compassionate, cost-efficient short term <em><strong>and<\/strong><\/em> long term strategy.\u00a0 No one is king; no one person sets the policy; and all refrain from saying \u201cyeah, but.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, our leaders would serve us best \u2014 and craft solutions best \u2014 by not politicizing another problem.<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>AR<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again our leaders have managed to do what-should-be the impossible.\u00a0 They have managed to politicize a problem instead of solve it (sigh). Please pause for a moment before throwing the first proverbial stone in yet another ad hominem attack.\u00a0 One of the aspects that most gets my goat or some other colloquial critter is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=3470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;illegal immigration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[457,221],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-event","category-current-issue","tag-current-border-crisis","tag-immigration-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}