How do you feel about the kids crossing the border
 

I kind of hate that their are tons of kids flooding the borders because coyotes are lying to the parents telling them that they will get free citizenship.

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It's not just about coyotes lying. Much of what you are seeing is lagged effects of US foreign policy.

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i hate it too. It hurt our chance to get green card.

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Not a fan. And no, that doesn't make me a hypocrite given that they'll likely get papers before I do.

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I know of two cases, they are my mom's acquaintances. Their kids arrived a couple of month's before the media started covering the border crisis. One person told my mom nonchalantly how it was a sure thing that their kids both 11 and 14 years old were going to cross the border even if they got caught by the border patrol and they were going to receive a permit to stay. These kids were not running away from poverty or crime as a matter of fact they were enrolled in private schools in Honduras living a comfortable life with the money their parents were sending them. My point is, the media keeps saying these kids are coming by themselves, when in reality parents are paying coyotes for that service. Their plan is "as long as we show up at the border we are getting papers/permits".
No doubt that some of them are really running away from hardships, but not all of them. They are coming with the wrong mentality, making it harder for us to obtain an immigration reform by giving politicians more reasons to not act on it.

Re: How do you feel about the kids crossing the border
 

Is it likely that the only reason the republicans voted on a bill to take aways Daca was because the flood of undocumented people?

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Yes this really hurts us but i think obama is the one to blame on this one. I say send all those kids back to where they came from. I wouldn't mind if the younger kids would stay (ages 3-10) those are just kids. The the rest of them send them all back. We dont know if they are affiliated with gang members or if they have commited a vicious crime.

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@Airforce. Yes that is the reason why they want to get rid of DACA and is not fair to us!!!!

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Thank you! I never bought their sob story of daily killings blahblahblah and how these kids were so confused that they thought they had permisos here but somehow managed to give thousands of dollars to coyotes and cross several borders. They know what they're doing...and they're doing it on our backs.

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DACE made it hard for some people (since USCIS had to make room for it thus increase waiting times) and was a key factor in holding down an immigration reform.

For whatever reason these kids are coming here, they are here already. Just like how we are here now.