Mexico Deploys A Formidable Deportation Force Near Its Own Southern Border

[blackforest]

The same comments have been written about children in Chicago living in the wrong neighborhoods. Based on what is said, they should be given refugee status in Mexico. As I noted previously, this is in accordance with international treaty and would also force Mexico to be a responsible neighbor and stop ignoring the problem. The role of the US is to help governance in all the affected countries better deal with the situation.

I asked you above to explain your rationale for asking the Chicago scenario. It may have taken you a few posts, but thank you for finally doing so. I can now proceed with engaging you in this discussion.

The reason the point of the question wasn’t obvious is because it’s an absurdly false analogy. Does your hypothetical single mother have to escape late at night without her papers to leave Chicago? Does she have to cross thousands of miles braving dehydration, heat exhaustion, scorpions, National Guard troops, helicopter spotlights, rat-infested sewage tunnels, unscrupulous rapists, and detention centers? Does she even have to go all the way to Canada? The U.S. is a giant country which, unlike El Salvador, has a LOT of safe places.

It bears repeating that the people crossing Mexico were doing nothing illegal.

That Sowell is conservative hardly makes him unreliable, unless you are progressive (ROFL, then anyone who disagrees with you is unreliable). You probably think Krugman walks on water, while I just read his arguments with a critical eye. I don’t call him a liar as my first response, an ad hominem.

Calm down. I did not call Sowell a liar, and it is not the ad hominem fallacy to ask where someone, Sowell or otherwise, is obtaining his/her data. Are you able to cite it? Or shall we move on with this given lack of evidence?

 

[Theo520]

Even your own source confirms what I have stated, that many if not most are economic migrants. We need to force Mexico to start taking their responsibility seriously, only then will conditions change in that region.

Tens of thousands of children travel from Central America to Mexico each year, most from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. To be sure, many children migrate only for economic reasons and do not qualify for refugee status or other recognized forms of international protection from return to their countries of origin; these children may be returned to their home countries in a manner that complies with international and Mexican law.

And yes, your response on Sowell was an ad hominem (not the worst, but one none the less),
you dismissed out of hand what he said because he was a conservative. You ignored the point I made with his data.

On mom’s in Chicago, it’s a simple question and where I’m going is obvious. Stop deflecting. How she get’s to Canada is irrelevant to whether her home situation should qualify her for refugee status. What’s with throwing in ‘rat infested’ hyperbole into your emotional evasion? Rats are pervasive, as are cockroaches in that climate.