As we have noticed, illegal aliens have been hauling along their kiddies mid-invasion, believing their presence makes lawbreaking more appealing somehow.
Perhaps that ploy works for the ACLU; the rest of us think the invaders are irresponsible parents, along with being job thieves.
Any American parent who transported their toddlers on top of a freight train would probably have them removed. Illegal aliens, not so much.
Friday’s Washington Post has the latest escalation in the kiddie follies, with the proposal that the United States should take the foreign moochers’ spare children to be raised and educated. The Post’s front page story has the subtitle, “But some deported parents think their children’s best option is staying in the U.S.”
What!? Didn’t the left just raise a stink about the horror of foreigner family separation? Apparently hispanic family values include splitting up when American goodies can be acquired.
Furthermore, what about what the American people want? Many citizens have chosen to have smaller families because of the mounting cost: they surely don’t want their taxes increased to pay to raise the illegal alien children of absent foreigners.
A fact sheet from the National Center for Education Statistics published last fall reported: “Current expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools are projected to be $623.5 billion for the 2017–18 school year. The current expenditure per student is projected to be $12,300 for the 2017–18 school year.”
In addition, we know foreigners cost more to educate. Some are really backward, e.g. they don’t know their own birthday. Persons from Central America may not even speak Spanish, but are illiterate in tribal languages like Kanjobal. Most get free-to-them food, tutoring, psychological counseling and healthcare. The education and social welfare expense for them can be crushing to city budgets.
Plus, when foreign kids grow up without parents, they may be more likely to join gangs.
The Washington Post story was reprinted in the San Antonio Express-News, linked below:
Some migrants separated from their children struggle with whether to let them stay in the US, July 19, 2018
LAS NUECES, Guatemala — The United States government separated their family at the border, leaving them with an agonizing choice.
José Ottoniel was deported to Guatemala in June, a month into President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” crackdown. But his 10-year-old son, Ervin, who made the journey with him, remained in Texas.
Now, back in this hilltop village, José and his wife, Elvia, need to decide what to do with their son, who is at a migrant shelter 1,700 miles away.
While the U.S. government scrambles to reunify migrant families separated at the border, some parents, such as the Ottoniels, think that the best option for their children might be the thing they most dread – to remain apart.
“It’s not that we don’t love him,” José said. “It’s that we want him to have a better chance at life.”
José and Elvia are pushing for Ervin to remain in the United States – away from the crushing poverty of his birthplace. Elvia has a cousin in Arkansas who agreed to take him in. The couple explained the situation to Ervin on the phone. They hung up, and they cried.
Ervin Ottoniel was the top-ranked third-grader at the village’s elementary school. He drew pictures of himself holding a laptop. He told his parents he wanted to be a lawyer. They told him they couldn’t afford his schooling beyond sixth grade. His father earns $21 a week.
