And, it’s giving Obama gray hairs or something. Here’s Politico’s far left opinion guy, Roger Simon
No matter how much you love your children, if you were a parent in Honduras, you might be tempted to ship them to the United States.
According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Honduras has the highest homicide rate in the world. In 2012, Honduras had 90.4 homicides per 100,000 people. The United States had 4.8, Canada had 1.6 and Mexico had 21.5.
Honduras is also very poor. Unemployment is high, and there is less development than even in Haiti. There are also gangs that recruit, enslave and murder children.
So if you were a Honduran parent and smugglers offered you a chance to get your child to the United States, you might take it, assuming you could gather the money to pay.
There’s another interesting article trending at Memeorandum along with Simon’s:
Mom Jailed Because She Let Her 9-Year-Old Daughter Play in the Park Unsupervised
Here are the facts: Debra Harrell works at McDonald’s in North Augusta, South Carolina. For most of the summer, her daughter had stayed there with her, playing on a laptop that Harrell had scrounged up the money to purchase. (McDonald’s has free WiFi.) Sadly, the Harrell home was robbed and the laptop stolen, so the girl asked her mother if she could be dropped off at the park to play instead.
Harrell said yes. She gave her daughter a cell phone. The girl went to the park—a place so popular that at any given time there are about 40 kids frolicking—two days in a row. There were swings, a “splash pad,” and shade. On her third day at the park, an adult asked the girl where her mother was. At work, the daughter replied.
The shocked adult called the cops. Authorities declared the girl “abandoned” and proceeded to arrest the mother.
In Honduras, it’s fine to send your kids off with coyotes, drug runners, and cartel members to head on the over 2,000 mile trip. In America, if you leave your kids alone, The State will come and arrest you and give your kid to Social Services. Heck of a contrast, wouldn’t you say?
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Rather than trying to gin up outrage one could be sympathetic to both situations.
A mother in Hondurans who feels her child is so threatened that they send them away with hopes save them.
A single mother in the US forced to choose between a minimum wage job ($15K a year, max)and properly caring for her 9 year old girl.
We have enough problems here without adding to them with these kids. We are under no obligation to accept them and disperse them through the US. We need to pressure Mexico to stop giving out VISA’s. Then legalize drugs and stop our regulation of them to curtail the actions of the drug groups. Then start putting employers in jail that hire illegal aliens.
We then have the concept of kids having adult supervision all the time. When I was 5, in the 50’s, my mother would throw us out of the house and lock the door till 5pm. She had no knowledge of where we were or what we were doing and did not care. Same for everyone in the neighborhood.
david typed:
“When I was 5, in the 50′s, my mother would throw us out of the house and lock the door till 5pm. She had no knowledge of where we were or what we were doing and did not care.”
And you turned out OK.
Thursday morning links
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