Obama to deport 52,000 children

Submitted by Matthew on 16 July, 2014 - 10:29

The White House has announced plans to spend $3.7 billion deporting 52,000 children to Central America.

The majority of these children come over the southern border into Texas from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, countries which are rife with drug wars and have been devastated by decades of US intervention.

Money is going to be spent on care for the children whilst they await detention and electronic tracking devices (in the form of ankle bracelets), enhanced border control and transport.

Obama has even proposed changing current laws to make deportations quicker and easier, by removing protection statuses that apply to children crossing the southern border. Punishing anyone, but especially children, who have turned up on America’s doorstep in desperation, begging for help, by demonizing them, treating them like criminals and immediately returning them to what they were running away from is both unforgivable and illogical. Problems can’t be solved by hiding them and pretending they don’t exist.

Obama should offer real aid to Central America, and relief in the mean time for any migrant who needs it.

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