How Central American Kids Gave Us An Immigration Reality Check

*This is the best commentary about the immigrant children humanitarian crisis that I’ve read so far. Several points to highlight: the problem isn’t the border; the children are fleeing a situation that is unfathomable in the U.S.; the root concern is U.S. foreign policy, not domestic policy. VL

By Tim Padgett, WLRN

 We thought we had the border licked.

Both President Obama and his Republican opposition had been patting themselves on the back of late for making the 2,000-mile-long frontera between the United States and Mexico more forbidding for undocumented migrants. Fewer and fewer had been crossing each year, because of beefed-up border security and because Obama had made a policy of deporting indocumentados in record numbers.

And then a bunch of Central American kids had to spoil the celebration.

They had to give us a reality check – and remind us that no matter what we do on the border, or how many migrants we boot back south, those folks will come if they’re desperate enough. They will come. Period. Punto.

Click HERE to read the full story.

[Photo courtesy of the International Organization for Migration. ©2014 IOM ]

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