The Nogales Hilton, children stay free! This summer the Southwest witnessed some really ugly circuses starring goonballs who organized to ye...
The Nogales Hilton, children stay free! This summer the Southwest witnessed some really ugly circuses starring goonballs who organized to yell at busloads of little kids fleeing rape and gangs and other bad shit south of the border. There were a few stories, like this one from CNN, that mentioned counter-protestors welcoming the unaccompanied children to Arizona. After all, a local kids camp near Oracle, which is a cool little artsy community, offered to put up the children, so it seemed out of character when the town became a flash point for hate this summer. But a bunch of bigoted fuddy duddies objected to this "invasion" of American soil, and turned out near Oracle to yell at the children (and Obama of course because everything is his fault).
Silly me, I thought invaders were dangerous men driving tanks and stuff, not little kids in a school bus.
The child immigrants were a big story for a media moment, which is to say a blip, and you don't hear much about it now. But while the rest of America has turned that page, Bob Ortega reported this week that more than 63,000 children are awaiting rulings on their asylum claims. Regrettably, only 1 in 3 of them has a lawyer, which is important because
more than 7 out of 10 minors who had attorneys were granted asylum in the United States, while only 1 out of 10 minors without an attorney was allowed to stay. Imagine an 8-year-old girl from Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador, the three countries that produced most of the children, defending herself in a place where she doesn't know the law, culture or language. Or have any family. So we send her packing, back to some nasty shit. Why? Maybe I'm reading too much Dickens lately, where poor children are shat upon with remarkable frequency, but c'mon people, what the heck?
"All the kids we've talked to recently from Central America have serious asylum claims. There are 10-year-olds who have been pressured into joining gangs." Jump over the fold for more of the story.
They're refugees, not immigrants.
"These people are leaving because it's dangerous to be there. They don't have the option of finding someplace else that's safe in their own country or of calling the police when something happens. This is not an immigration crisis, it's a refugee crisis." Apparently, if you're a refugee on a boat escaping communist regimes in Cuba or Vietnam, come on down! Welcome! Welcome! Emma Lazarus and all. But if you're running away from thugs and rapists who prey on kids, and you're coming across the Mexican border, "Go home!" Maybe the children should've said they're fleeing abortion providers.
The nativists marshaled their lawn chairs and misspelled signs to protest the invasion, and one tea bagger congressional candidate visited Goober Nation to inflame the bigotry and get his mug on TV. Then he came off like a jackass, which it didn't take this incident to verify, when he rallied the troops to stare down the dangerous tikes from Honduras, and it turned out to be a bus full of YMCA kids going to camp. Oops.
Hey, dickheads! We're talking about the number of children born every five days or so in this country. It's not a lot. Right now Jordan is home to about 1.5 million refugees, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Jordan, which is only a little more than 6 million people to begin with, opens its arms to the persecuted. We're more than 322 million people and some pinheads, who probably call themselves Christians, are getting their pointy hats and panties in a wad over a few thousand kids who still ride bikes and play with sticks. No doubt some of these bigoted blowhards show up at protests to protect the life of a zygote, but a flesh-and-blood little boy? Not so much.
Imagine you're 10, fleeing a violent life and this great nation gives you asylum. I'd be pretty darn grateful. Yeah, there likely are some bad seeds in a number like 63,000, but we'd be getting tens of thousands of grateful citizens. They're kids. And we're supposed to be a compassionate nation. Every president tells me so.
Sadly, the administration is hiring more judges to process the asylum hearings quickly, but no one has appropriated additional DOJ funds for defense lawyers. Priorities.
Originally posted to Maggie's Farm also republished by Phoenix Kossacks, Baja Arizona Kossacks, and Daily Kos.
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Silly me, I thought invaders were dangerous men driving tanks and stuff, not little kids in a school bus.
The child immigrants were a big story for a media moment, which is to say a blip, and you don't hear much about it now. But while the rest of America has turned that page, Bob Ortega reported this week that more than 63,000 children are awaiting rulings on their asylum claims. Regrettably, only 1 in 3 of them has a lawyer, which is important because
more than 7 out of 10 minors who had attorneys were granted asylum in the United States, while only 1 out of 10 minors without an attorney was allowed to stay. Imagine an 8-year-old girl from Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador, the three countries that produced most of the children, defending herself in a place where she doesn't know the law, culture or language. Or have any family. So we send her packing, back to some nasty shit. Why? Maybe I'm reading too much Dickens lately, where poor children are shat upon with remarkable frequency, but c'mon people, what the heck?
"All the kids we've talked to recently from Central America have serious asylum claims. There are 10-year-olds who have been pressured into joining gangs." Jump over the fold for more of the story.
They're refugees, not immigrants.
"These people are leaving because it's dangerous to be there. They don't have the option of finding someplace else that's safe in their own country or of calling the police when something happens. This is not an immigration crisis, it's a refugee crisis." Apparently, if you're a refugee on a boat escaping communist regimes in Cuba or Vietnam, come on down! Welcome! Welcome! Emma Lazarus and all. But if you're running away from thugs and rapists who prey on kids, and you're coming across the Mexican border, "Go home!" Maybe the children should've said they're fleeing abortion providers.
The nativists marshaled their lawn chairs and misspelled signs to protest the invasion, and one tea bagger congressional candidate visited Goober Nation to inflame the bigotry and get his mug on TV. Then he came off like a jackass, which it didn't take this incident to verify, when he rallied the troops to stare down the dangerous tikes from Honduras, and it turned out to be a bus full of YMCA kids going to camp. Oops.
Hey, dickheads! We're talking about the number of children born every five days or so in this country. It's not a lot. Right now Jordan is home to about 1.5 million refugees, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Jordan, which is only a little more than 6 million people to begin with, opens its arms to the persecuted. We're more than 322 million people and some pinheads, who probably call themselves Christians, are getting their pointy hats and panties in a wad over a few thousand kids who still ride bikes and play with sticks. No doubt some of these bigoted blowhards show up at protests to protect the life of a zygote, but a flesh-and-blood little boy? Not so much.
Imagine you're 10, fleeing a violent life and this great nation gives you asylum. I'd be pretty darn grateful. Yeah, there likely are some bad seeds in a number like 63,000, but we'd be getting tens of thousands of grateful citizens. They're kids. And we're supposed to be a compassionate nation. Every president tells me so.
Sadly, the administration is hiring more judges to process the asylum hearings quickly, but no one has appropriated additional DOJ funds for defense lawyers. Priorities.
Originally posted to Maggie's Farm also republished by Phoenix Kossacks, Baja Arizona Kossacks, and Daily Kos.
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