13-Year-Old Immigrant Risks Death To Reach U.S.: Scenes From Vanguard

One more thing, puertomeno, your argument does nothing to defend the poor governance in the countries in question for decades long after U.S. influence ended. You can't use the U.S. as the scapegoat for all that has gone on during the past 20-years. Latin Americans love to absolve themselves of their collective responsibility and always point towards others, especially Mexico. It's a cultural macho thing.

Well puertomeno, none of what you've said has any bearing on the fact that importing poverty and ignorance is imprudent, or the fact that Mexico is still responsible for their own people. You seem to suggest that we should punish ourselves by acquiescing to the will of illegal aliens by adopting them. Nothing that has gone on before would justify our abandonment of our right to sovereign borders or the right to protect our people from adding to their tax burden by adding to the roles of the dependent 47 percent.

I admire people who do what they have to in order to survive. My struggles are so cosmetic compared to that kid. Thanks for keeping things in perspective for me.

The governments of Mexico and others in Central America are entirely responsible for anything that happens to their citizens who attempt to cross into the US. The fact that the House has fallen to the Republicans ends the left's attempt to give amnesty to illegal aliens in order to increase their voting base, or to permit them to remain in the US. We are a welfare state and we can't afford to add to the 47 percent of all workers who don't pay federal income taxes, or add to the rolls of those receiving Earned Income Tax Credits. Lastly, no other nation on earth has as its goal to add poverty and ignorance to its population, which would be the effect of granting amnesty to illegal aliens. Accepting the failures of Latin America is contrary to our national goal of a literate society.

I'm shock!!!! I always knew that living in Central America is difficult and they had a lot of poverty, but I never thought it went to the extreme. Interesting story.