US immigrant crackdown?

Question

Children of undocumented immigrants are paying a high price for tough, new US immigration policies, according to a study released Wednesday, which said minors often are left behind when their parents are detained or deported.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iASPO5eZ8AGecd5VB-oQITYIyfuQ

What is wrong with Americans?

Answer 1

I feel badly for the children, their parent(s) made unwise choices.

Answer 2

Sure they may be left behind, but why dont they return to Mexico, and use their education to build something there

This study is completely biased pro-illegal

What about emotional stress of Americans and 'legals' for loosing their cities, their language, and their jobs?

what about the familes left behind OVER THERE IN MEXICO when the dad decides to leave to make a new life in the US?
Doesnt this leave a family behnd? Why don't they do a study of the ghost-towns in Mexico with dismantled families everywhere

America has nothing to do with anchor children. Illegal parents should be punished for abuse. I'm hoping the birthright citizenship law will be banned in 2008 for heavy abuse, and please ban retroactively 10-15 years back, take citizenships away from millions. The future of America is bad enough without all these children.

Answer 3

There is nothing wrong with Americans. The root of the problem comes from illegals who think that they will not get caught, and deported. Our laws are on the books for a reason for both the businesses that hire illegals, and for the illegals themselves.

Illegal parent(s) have continued to make bad choices. First by breaking our laws coming illegally. Then by leaving or abandoning their children here in the U.S. That is not Americans fault. But the fault of the illegals alone. They need to take that responsibility and children back with them, and stop blaming Americans.

Answer 4

Dear Dimwit...
First of all get something through your thick head: millions of American men and women put their lives on the line to prevent America from being invaded. Those bleeding-heart bimbos who wring their hands and sob about illegal immigrants getting what they deserve are dishonoring each and every one of those sacrificed Americans.

The last I heard there were something like 3-million illegal immigrants in this country. Assume that half of those have two alien kids each while they're here.That's another 3-million illegal aliens. If you're capable of it, keep going with the math to see what would happen. If that's not an invasion I don't know what is!

Finally, those 3-million aliens came into this country knowing full well that they were breaking an existing and established law. Any reasonable person can understand that whatever hardships and/or trauma their children suffer is due to their parent's irresponsibility. It's the parents who took the chance that they wouldn't get caught and that they could raise their kids in a better country. Trying to blame Americans for that is sheer idiocy, as is turning a blind eye to the disastrous impact illegal aliens are already having on the sovereignty of this nation. By your reasoning drug dealers, rapists, bank robbers, murderers, drunk drivers, et al, should get leniency if they have children.

If you can't understand that, or are too thick-headed to even try, then I've got a question for you: Did your parents have any kids not born brain dead?

Answer 5

The root of the problem and the cause of the suffering was the act of entering or being in the US as an illegal alien. I truly wish they had not done that so these poor children would not be suffering because of their parent's lack of respect for the laws of the nation. However, that does not detract from the need to remove those who feel they have no need to follow US laws, rules and regulations.

I would think that dedicated parents would take their children with them instead of abandoning them.

There will be pain but we know who caused it.

The US had one amnesty and we now see that it didn't work. If fact it has encouraged more to break the law. No more.

You will find that the logic of most Americans regarding the issue will be very Boolean in nature.

Answer 6

Hence the term "ANCHOR BABY". The parents made a conscious decision to interject children into this equation In the hopes that these "INNOCENT children would help "ANCHOR them In the UNITED STATES. They are using children as a means to try and stay In OUR country,and while Its not right that the children should pay for their parents mistakes,that's whats going to happen like It or not. If the parents truly cared for their children they would take them with,when deported.

Answer 7

Criminals should think of their children before they break the law. Those breaking the law are 100% at fault in cases like this.

The prisons are full of people that have children...what is the "psychological" impact of this on children?

Should we not enforce our laws so children are not affected??

Common sense stuff people.

Criminals (including illegal aliens) KNOW they are breaking the law when they do it. The key difference here is if an illegal alien is deported, it's their CHOICE to leave their children behind. Bad parenting...criminals rarely think of their children or the consequences of their crime when they commit it. If they did, they wouldn't do it in the first place.

America is not at fault here for enforcing its laws, the PARENTS are. PERIOD.

Answer 8

I read it. Parents are to blame. Not the U.S.

In fact, those parents lack every hint of character and virtue, not only in our eyes but likewise from their countrymen.

I have family and their friends in Mexico who are as incensed as we are but because they were abandoned at such a critical time in their history when the masses could actually have effected a lasting legislative correction.

Notwithstanding the circumstances that brought it about, the tripling of Mexico's GDP over the last decade has meant that, if the people had stayed and threatened to derail the growth, government would definitely have been had.

They'd have listened, whether they liked it or not. Oddly, the same people have a suspicious view of the very U.S. government that began and continues to provide drug-like incentives to draw their people away.

What are we doing to this neighbor and its grassroots efforts to secure a stable future for its own?

An answer above (by Sexy Mama), when contrasted with mine, certainly illustrates that this is in no way a simple problem with an obvious solution.

But in the end, any victory borne of unchaperoned, unassisted determination dwarfs and obscures one lumbered forward and kept alive only by constant baby-sitting and handouts.


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Answer 9

A better question is What is wrong with these parents who put the children in this situation to start with. They can take the children with them. Then when the child becomes an adult they can come legally.

Answer 10

I find it really strange that so many people are offended by this crack down, and the pitiful excuses they make and spout forth as to how cruel it is , but of course the parents are not to blame are they? they cite how it will affect the children later in life? how will it affect them? lets compare these kids to the ones who were displaced in Germany, Poland; and all of the Baltic States? more than the average became very good resourceful and meaningful citizens of their respective country's , but, here we want to give them excuses to become out cast , our so called social workers get involved and tell them how hard they have had it and give them ton's of sympathy, then they feel they were cheated and become bitter and try to get even , if we left the so called educated social workers out of the picture thing would never be as bad as the get when they are involved, when will our country ever learn sometimes doing nothing is the best way.

Answer 11

Americans are just fine. The real question is what is wrong with the illegals,coming here breaking the law then abandoning their children?