MY BROTHER ASKS A GOOD QUESTION

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My brother is much older and usually much wiser than I am.  Although I have turned to him often in my life for consolation and advice which has usually been sound and correct, I am now obligated to counter his recent frolic into the world of left-wing liberalism. 

He writes: "When it comes to all these kids from Central America crossing our border I become a liberal.  How can we turn our backs on their plight and think of the love the parents have for them to allow them to make the trip.  To send them back to a possible death sentence is inhumane."  

Now, I will agree that on its surface, it is a very valid position.  Yet, I must now pose some questions:

• Are we obligated to and capable of importing every being of unfortunate circumstances who can successfully violate our laws and cross our borders?   
• How can we justify to ourselves the turning of  our backs on the countless thousands of children and families who already live here in sickness, poverty, drug addiction and hunger while we welcome, feed, clothe, shelter and provide for these new illegals? 
• If the cause is so noble, where are the voices of our religious institutions?  Will they take them in? 
• Will they be registered as Democrats and made eligible to vote regardless of their citizenship?  
• Are they simply pawns in a much bigger and sinister political game?  

No, it is not entirely their fault that they are here; after all, our Obama government did with great deliberation and planning create every incentive for them to leave their homelands and to head to our borders.  But I do not believe that we have any business or right whatsoever to take in the boundless seas of humanity until we can take care of our own.  

They need to be sent home, not back through the horrors of their journeys to get here but by bus or train or plane... Explain to them why it is they cannot stay, but that there is a way for them to get here legally.  Give them $100 or so in U.S. dollars and see to it that they are delivered back to their families in Central or South America. 

Maybe, just maybe, we might then turn our attention to our internal issues of poverty and homelessness.  Is that too much to ask?  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.