The Big Lawsuit

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

Oh BS Finn. They found the body of another dead child drowned in the Rio Grande this weekend. They find bodies in the desert near the border. We know that these kids, and the adults for that matter, are subject to assault, rape, robbery and other abuses. How "Christian" is it to encourage or support a continuation of the current migration?

Speaking of "simple - minded", to suggest that all of this is somehow a function of the demand for cheap labor is WAY oversimplifying the issue. Sure its a component, but that component hardly applies to the children seeking refugee status. Are you suggesting that these children are going to be processed through their hearings and then immediately hired at their local McDonalds?

Who said anything about encouraging or supporting the current migration? If you acknowledge that they're trying to escape assault, rape, robbery, and murder in their homeland, then you're obligated under our laws and treaties to give them asylum hearings.

Coming here for economic reasons and coming here to escape oppression/murder are indeed two different things. We have no obligation to accept anybody coming here for economic reasons, but we do have an obligation to give them an asylum hearing if they show up here as legitimate refugees. If it were impossible for them to land jobs in our economy, the numbers coming here for strictly economic reasons would diminish to a trickle. It's the GOP trying to conflate these two types of folks showing up at the border.