The Moral Crisis on Our Southern Border --- A perfect storm of special interests have hijacked U.S. immigration law

From Victor Davis Hanson:

No one knows just how many tens of thousands of Central American nationals — most of them desperate, unescorted children and teens — are streaming across America’s southern border. Yet this phenomenon offers us a proverbial teachable moment about the paradoxes and hypocrisies of Latin American immigration to the U.S. 

For all the pop romance in Latin America associated with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, few Latinos prefer to immigrate to such communist utopias or to socialist spin-offs like Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, or Peru. 

Instead, hundreds of thousands of poor people continue to risk danger to enter democratic, free-market America, which they have often been taught back home is the source of their misery. 

They either believe that America’s supposedly inadequate social safety net is far better than the one back home, or that its purportedly cruel free market gives them more opportunities than anywhere in Latin America — or both. 

Mexico strictly enforces some of the harshest immigration laws in the world that either summarily deport or jail most who dare to cross Mexican borders illegally, much less attempt to work inside Mexico or become politically active. 

If America were to emulate Mexico’s immigration policies, millions of Mexican nationals living in the U.S. immediately would be sent home. 

How, then, are tens of thousands of Central American children crossing with impunity hundreds of miles of Mexican territory, often sitting atop Mexican trains? 

Does Mexico believe that the massive influxes will serve to render U.S. immigration law meaningless, and thereby completely shred an already porous border? 

Is Mexico simply ensuring that the surge of poorer Central Americans doesn’t dare stop in Mexico on its way north? 

The media talks of a moral crisis on the border. It is certainly that, but not entirely in the way we are told. 

What sort of callous parents simply send their children as pawns northward without escort, in selfish hopes of soon winning for themselves either remittances or eventual passage to the U.S? 

What sort of government allows its vulnerable youth to pack up and leave, without taking any responsibility for such mass flight?

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.