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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait until all of the facts are out. Last time the media blew up over the girl who died from an infection, yet turns out she died of sepsis and was given proper care as soon as could reasonably be administered.  We also found out she died of sepsis, which takes many days to occur and that her father should and could have easily taken her to seek help in Mexico and didn't. The end of this video says the kid died as a complication from the Flu AND other infections.  What other infections?  Sepsis too?  That means he would have shown signs of illness days prior to coming to the US.  He should have gotten treated in Mexico if that's the case.  [b]But the real question is, where are the parents.Are they the ones who did the burial back in Guatemala?  If so, what an absolute disgrace of parents they are. how do you let your 13 year wonder 1500 miles by themselves.  No parents? Then where is the guardian?  I guess no one is responsible for their kids these days.  [/b]What do you expect to happen.when you flood a country with millions of illegal immigrants who essentially break the entire system?  At some point some.bad things will happen. How many people here have experience processing thousands of illegal immigrants and trying to keep track of each and every one of their health issues and regimens for when they need to be treated?  Try not coming here illegally in the first place if you don't want to be detained.  So the solution is just to let anyone walk last our borders whenever they feel like it and provide them with free healthcare.  Geez, maybe our own citizens should start flying down to Mexico, tear up their passport, and then enter the US illegally without any ID to get the free healthcare illegal immigrants get.

Wait for all of the facts to come out first please.[/quote]

I read an article answering this very question a few days ago. Parents are sending their older children to the U.S. alone because the situations in their home countries are so dire, they are taking the risk that their child will fare better coming to the U.S. rather than staying put.  They have real fears that their children will be murdered by gangs.

This is a truly heartbreaking.   I couldn't find the article, but read this and try to have a little compassion for people whose lives are in turmoil and who are doing the best that they can for their children.

And may this young man RIP.

[quote]What accounts for the recent spike in unaccompanied minors trying to cross into the U.S.?

There are a handful of reasons such as poverty, natural disasters, the rise of gang recruitment, but the biggest is that the countries where the majority of unaccompanied minors are coming from – Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico – are dangerous. In terms of violence, their home countries are worse than Iraq. In fact, some estimate that Honduras has nine times as many homicides per capita as Iraq. Guatemala, the least violent of the four countries, is still at least twice as violent as Iraq.

So these unaccompanied minors – children, in other words – are effectively escaping war zones. The poverty is so immense, and the desperation level is so high that families are willing to take extraordinary risks to come or to send their children here.

Parents will take great risks to afford their children the chance, however small, to have not just a better future, but to have any future at all. That’s what many Americans fundamentally don’t understand about this issue. Mothers and fathers don’t send children on a dangerous journey on a whim. The fact that they send them is demonstrative of just how afraid parents are to let children remain in their home country.[/quote]

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/803606
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This is exactly it.  And I know that most Americans, including pretty much all Republicans, would do absolutely anything they had to do to find a better life for their children if they were in this horrible situation that these families are enduring in the countries they just happened to be born in.  It is sickening that so many Americans have such a cynical attitude toward people who are just trying to get out of a "shit hole" country as Trump puts it.  Our resources must not be shared with others in dire need because we are so special due to an accident of birth?[/quote]

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