Would You Let Your Family Starve Rather Than Make Illegal Entry Into Another Country? Patrick F. McCann - Houston Chronicle
go to original June 29, 2014

Children and parents who traveled from Honduras, mostly, wait in Tequixquiac, Mexico, for the train known as "The Beast" that will take them to the United States border. (Tracy Wilkinson/MBR)

If a man's father died in a car crash, and his young son woke up one day and walked from Maine to California to find a job so he could send money back to his mother and baby sister, we would call that young man a hero.

Make him Mexican and have him cross a border that has been notional for most of the last few hundred years, and he is a pariah. Make him a child from El Salvador or Guatemala whose parents made a gut-wrenching decision to send that child, alone and afraid, north so that he or she might have a chance to live, perhaps in a better place, and he is suddenly a national crisis, a political chip in a poker game that has been rigged for some time.

In this day, when our corporations regularly cross borders and become "residents" of Ireland or Luxembourg or the Cayman Islands, this is hypocrisy at its finest.

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A recently produced infographic from the Department of Homeland Security shows that the majority of unaccompanied children coming to the United States are from some of the most violent and impoverished parts of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. (Department of Homeland Security)

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