LoveNotHate wrote:
MaxE wrote:
LoveNotHate wrote:
The poor and middle class in the USA don't want to share their wealth with the absolute poor.
As I understand it, these children are not emigrating just for economic reasons. They are hoping for a chance of survival.
President Obama requested 3.7 billion dollars to pay for them at least initially. That is money that could go to poor/middle class citizens, but will now be directed towards these immigrants. That provokes anger.
These are citizens of another country that illegally entered the US, and apparently need 3.7 billion dollars worth of stuff.
Obama requests $3.7 billion for child migrants
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/b ... 08657.html
Most of that money was going to be spent on efforts to reduce the number making it across the border and to speed up the proccessing of those who are in custody.
The Republicans can't make demands and then refuse to fund the meeting of those demands.
Well, I guess they can and will, but they shouldn't.
And just for the record, 33 children between 6 months and 15 years along with 26 mothers were just deported back to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, which currently boasts the highest murder rate in the world (beating out all of Iraq and Syria). There is a pretty good chance that many of these
HUMAN BEINGS are not going to live long enough to get the opportunity to illegally enter this country again, so I guess all these concerned US citizens and politicians are now "saving the nation from an invasion."
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