Notice to Appear in Court--A good thing??
The New York Times headline reads U.S. Plans to Step Up Detention and Deportation of Migrants.
It is about time we, as a nation, discern the difference in meaning between the terms immigrant and migrant. In fact, the aforementioned headline could well have immigrants substituted for migrants in various local newspapers around the United States.
Migrants, from Central America, unfamiliar with the American Legal system have been interpreting a notice to appear in court as a permit to stay in the United States! (Yeah right!) The migrants, primarily women with children, have been sending word back to Central America that they received a “permiso” to remain here, inducing more to travel across Mexico to the unmanageably large American border.
More alarming is the trend of young Central Americans to risk life and limb to walk across parched Mexico just to have the opportunity to live in the safer, comparatively speaking, United States.
These 16 to 25 year olds are fleeing the increasing violence in countries where their governments are too weak or too corrupt to protect them. This has forced the Obama administration to declare a humanitarian crisis and establish emergency shelters for young migrants in California, Oklahoma, and Texas. An example is Obama ordering FLETC in Artesia,NM to house those running from injustice in Central America. FLETC which stands for Federal Law Enforcement Training Center will, ironically, be utilized as a safe haven for the very folks it was trying to keep out of the country!
Now we have to reconsider who we should allow in our country and who should be sent back. Hospitals and courts and public services will have to be re-instructed on how to deal with "illegal immigrants"
It is about time we, as a nation, discern the difference in meaning between the terms immigrant and migrant. In fact, the aforementioned headline could well have immigrants substituted for migrants in various local newspapers around the United States.
Migrants, from Central America, unfamiliar with the American Legal system have been interpreting a notice to appear in court as a permit to stay in the United States! (Yeah right!) The migrants, primarily women with children, have been sending word back to Central America that they received a “permiso” to remain here, inducing more to travel across Mexico to the unmanageably large American border.
More alarming is the trend of young Central Americans to risk life and limb to walk across parched Mexico just to have the opportunity to live in the safer, comparatively speaking, United States.
These 16 to 25 year olds are fleeing the increasing violence in countries where their governments are too weak or too corrupt to protect them. This has forced the Obama administration to declare a humanitarian crisis and establish emergency shelters for young migrants in California, Oklahoma, and Texas. An example is Obama ordering FLETC in Artesia,NM to house those running from injustice in Central America. FLETC which stands for Federal Law Enforcement Training Center will, ironically, be utilized as a safe haven for the very folks it was trying to keep out of the country!
Now we have to reconsider who we should allow in our country and who should be sent back. Hospitals and courts and public services will have to be re-instructed on how to deal with "illegal immigrants"
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