Thursday, January 10, 2019

America's Southern Border Isn't Just a Crisis, It's a Disgrace

It's far less than the amount we give to Latin American countries in handouts every year and it's part of a sacred commitment government has to defend our border, uphold our laws, and protect our people.

The solution is to stop enticing people north with hopes of off-the-books jobs, fake IDs, access to American welfare programs, and a potential future amnesty.

At the same time, President Trump said on January 4 that people "Can apply to come into our country legally, like so many people have done. And we need people. Major. We have to have people. Because we have all these companies coming in. We need great people. But we want them to come in on a merit basis, and they have to come in on a merit basis. They can't come in the way they've been coming in for years." He's right, but that's not what's happening.

The people involved in it are bad actors who upend the lives of the people they enroll in these caravans and use as human props in American political battles.

What's so wrong with Latin America anyway? A more moral and sustainable approach would be to encourage these same people to develop their own countries.

Speaking to the nation from the Oval Office, President Trump, explained the moral responsibility of our government to each of us as citizens when he said that people, "Don't build walls because they hate the people on the outside, but because they love the people on the inside. The only thing that is immoral is for the politicians to do nothing and continue to allow more innocent people to be so horribly victimized."

Henry Olsen, a scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a columnist here at American Greatness has explained that illegal migration pushes normal American citizens into economic competitions they cannot win.


https://amgreatness.com/2019/01/09/americas-southern-border-isnt-just-a-crisis-its-a-disgrace/

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