Children At The Border View #4

Nearly 63,000 have gotten caught along the border trying to escape into the United States alone since October. President Obama called for a meeting about this calling it an urgent humanitarian situation. These children that make it through the border usually go to sponsors around the country that give them food and places to live. The majority of these children are going to states such as California, New York, Texas and Florida. Many of these children have lived in poverty all of their life and are usually escaping dangerous areas in their countries. The reason these children aren't deported immediately is because of an immigration law that grants the children a hearing before deportation.

I believe that this situation is getting out of hand and that something needs to be done to help these children. They are escaping their countries for fear of losing their lives. However I believe that America can't let in all of these child immigrants from their countries for the strain it could cause to the American economy. Better programs need to be set up in these countries and more relief should be issued before America starts letting in all of these children.

In the book The Distance Between Us  it talks about these children having to come to the United States to escape danger. In the case of book these children are coming to the United States for better opportunities in general. The problem is that America has been going through financial strain and it can't possibly take in all of these immigrants or be asked to by an country. This is the job of these children's country to provide a better life for them not the United States.

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