"White House to spend millions to curb undocumented children crossing border"

[Cerridwen]

Edit to add: please read entire article. Far too much information for 4 paragraphs.

(CNN) -- The Obama administration has unveiled a plan to spend millions of dollars to stem the tide of undocumented children streaming across the U.S.-Mexico border, announcing a coordinated government-wide response to the situation Friday.

<snip>

The Obama administration has accused syndicates in Latin America of waging a deliberate campaign of misinformation that has caused people in poor Central American countries and Mexico to risk their lives to head for the United States, where they expect to stay.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the administration is addressing the problem in several ways.

"We're going to open up some additional detention facilities that can accommodate adults that show up on the border with their children. And we're going to deploy some additional resources to work through their immigration cases more quickly, so they're not held in that detention facility for a long time, and hopefully be quickly returned to their home country," Earnest said.

(much more at link)

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/20/politics/us-central-american-immigration/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_allpolitics+%28RSS%3A+Politics%29

[ohheckyeah]

1. It's a good article...

I read it yesterday.

There's lots of information in it.

[Cerridwen]

2. Thanks. I thought so, too.

I had been wondering what the hell had happened/changed.

[ohheckyeah]

3. I think one of the most important parts of the plan

is: Earnest said the administration is also working with Central American countries to address the problem at its root.

If you don't address the root problems, the influx isn't going to stop.

[Cerridwen]

5. Good point. I liked that part as well.

It was so hard to figure which part(s) of the article to include.

I'm glad you took the time to read it.

[ohheckyeah]

10. I find this situation

very upsetting. I lived just about 13 miles from the Mexican border at one time and it was always the children that really got to me when I went to Mexico.

I'll stop now or I'll go off on a rant.

[delrem]

6. That does seem to be a problem for the USA. nt

[delrem]

4. Give me your tired, your poor,

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Author: Emma Lazarus

[Cerridwen]

7. Beautiful words and ideals.

Bit of a bear in practical application given the country we've become.

Sad. That's a vast understatement but anything else and I'm off on a long rant.

[delrem]

8. An ideal can never be lived up to.

It's the striving, it's the doing, it's the making things better, that life is about.

[Cerridwen]

9. Unfortunately, it appears that ideals have become

impractical. They interfere with the bottom line and a few too many people are concerned that someone who "hasn't earned it" might benefit.

I'm really trying to avoid going off on a rant here.

Thank you for your beautiful words.

[FSogol]

18. +1 Exactly. n/t

[ohheckyeah]

11. I said the same thing about a rant

before I read this. LOL

[Cerridwen]

12. :) I just looked at that post.

I was going to say "great minds" and all that. I think instead I'll say "great hearts."

[ohheckyeah]

13. I can agree on that.

[Cerridwen]

14. Is that allowed? Agreement on DU? (edited)

Okay...now I think I'm getting "punchy." I've been up since 2am (local). The last time I felt this way on DU we had a virtual "pajama party" in the middle of GD. It was a lot of fun but I think we caused a lot of eye-rolling.



edit to add: thank you for the rec. I just noticed.

[delrem]

15. It makes sense to keep this ideal in mind. yes/no?

We know how well the ideal didn't even fit the time when the words were engraved in stone.
Racism/Sexism ruled, and had no pity.

[Cerridwen]

16. I always do; keep my ideals in mind.

I even spend time to re-evaluate my values; make sure they haven't become outdated or proven wrong/biased/ignorant. Gut checks.

I'd love to live in the US that practiced the ideals I was taught.

[ohheckyeah]

19. Yes -

I think without ideals we become jaded and hard.

[FSogol]

17. K&R. n/t