What I am seeing on the news is a lot of children mostly, even a lot of small babies, that are traveling from Honduras, Guatemala and places other than just Mexico where the gang violence has reached a peak. The parents are saying they would rather risk their kids lives making the travel for their children to the US for asylum than have them killed on their door steps. They just showed about 30 children all in one jail cell crowded together on a floor with only a couple of open toilets, some were very dirty looking. There were no adults. They looked so scared. Most had their faces turned and many were only shown from their backs. I could see many little girls holding babies.
This is just heart breaking. There was some crowd of protesters yelling that these kids were human pieces of garbage and to throw them back.
These children have a right to due process of law. They also have a right to asylum. Honduras is one of the countries to my knowledge that is on the list of countries we give asylum to refugees. The definition of refugee status to my understanding can mean anything that threatens their life, such as a corrupt government that is killing their own people or even gang members that are killing the people. I need to go look it up but it is a pretty broad definition.
The truth of the matter is, in this country when we have dealt with refugee over flow before we didn't put them in prisons and jail cells like this. We only did that to the known criminals after we processed them. But we set up refugee camps. We are not allowed to just expedite a fast deportation process when they are asking for asylum. Also these children do not have legal representation. They have a right to legal representation. The ACLU just filed a class action lawsuit on this.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/children-shouldnt-be-left-alone-immigration-court
I just think people are getting confused on who are illegal immigrants trying to come into the country illegally and who are seeking refuge.
In addition I really think American's have become really heartless. We have really lost all compassion.