The Children at the boarder: Stay or Leave?

The Children at the Border: Stay or Leave?

A few years ago people from all over Latin America were immigrating to the United States and leaving their children behind. Now it’s the other way around, children are being sent alone to the border to look for a better future for themselves, children of all ages. Many times these kids have no family on the other side to them keep them safe. These children are coming here alone escaping violence in their countries. Since october 2013 more than 50,000 children have migrated compared to previous statistics.

source: thefederalistpapers.org

Most of these children come from countries where the highest percentage of homicides happens some of the poorest places in Latin America. Places like; Guatemala, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador, México among many others. The children at the border stated coming a while ago but we just stated hearing how bad it is early this year. It was no surprise this was going to happen. There is a study called “children on the run” that in some way showed this was going to happen.

These children are not guilty of anything; they just want help. They were sent here because their families know how bad it would be for them if they stayed in the their country of origin.

For instance, many Honduran children are being sent to the border. Also Honduras ranks one of the places with the highest homicides rates.

            It is no secret that immigration happens. Its been happening since the beginning of times, not only did Latinos immigrate but so did Asians, Europeans and what not. Many wonder, why so many young kids started migrating. Gangs, gun violence and drugs are just some of the reasons why they come.

          Some argue that such high number reported of immigrants coming in to the state is affecting the economy because it takes a lot to deport the people back to their country of origin. People have stupid reasons for not wanting these children here. They are doing no wrong to anyone, we are all made of the same material. Living in different countries, speaking different languages and having different skin color make us no different. These children like American born children suffer, feel, and need our help.

source: nbcnews.com

          BenSasse candidate to the Nebraska senate said, “How many more kids are going to be put on top of trains? Hal-a-million? A million? Five million? Before the president sends a strong message to these children that they cannot migrate here." How bold headed of him to express this way of kids that are clearly suffering and probably have no say on what is going on.

            Kids coming from these countries to ours are not coming with the intention of messing anything up or costing money to the government. they are here because their countries are unsafe and feel like they can find protection her in the land of the freedom. All they really know is that their country is dangerous and that they deserve to live in a safe place. We can't really blame them for that, can we?

           This is a problem, one that should not be solved by deportation but by showing that these kids are welcome here and they will be safe.  That what they came here looking for in the first place a safe place to stay. There is so much that can be done like, having multiple centers to which kids can arrive and feel at home. Nobody points at them because they weren’t born in the united states. The kids need our help and we must do something for them because at the end we are no different from them.