Give the ‘Border Kids’ Dignity. Now.

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The media love the ‘border kids.’ But they’re being held 30 to 40 in ice-cold cells with one toilet. It’s government-sponsored child abuse.

I can’t decide which constitutes the bigger mess: the humanitarian crisis on the Texas-Mexico border, where tens of thousands of children are streaming into the United States from Central America at the rate of more than 1,000 per day, or the political crisis caused by Americans on both sides of the immigration debate who have tried to exploit this tragic story of human suffering to advance their agendas.

It could be the sheer numbers. According to published reports, U.S. immigration officials estimate that in just the last eight months, 47,000 children have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. More than 75 percent of them are coming from just three countries: Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. And more are on the way in a migration likely to continue for months.



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/16/give-the-border-kids-dignity-now.html
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