As a Border Patrol agent reads the birth certificate of Alejandro, 8, it seems that universally people of all nations would feel empathy for the child. But that isn’t exactly what’s happening, as more and more Americans are openly voicing disdain for even children who are sent across the US-Mexican border as refugees.
As he crossed the Rio Grande near McAllen recently, Alejandro finds himself among more than 52,000 other children traveling without parents who’ve have been caught crossing the border illegally since last October.
Rewind the clocks seventy-five years ago. The St. Louis, a German trans-Atlantic liner was carrying 938 Jewish refugees. The United States turned the boatload of refugees away from the United States and forced to return to Europe. At that time, U.S. law didn’t allow them sanctuary. This embarrassing stain on the U.S. human rights record is now being compared by some to the treatment of Mexican undocumented immigrants, particularly children.
Former Dallas Morning News reporter Christine Wicker poignantly writes the following observations: “The St. Louis is famous now as a failure of compassion that haunts American history. Today we are preparing to send 45,000 children back to Central American countries controlled by drug cartels that routinely torture, rape and kill children who refuse to work for them. So routinely are children menaced that their families sent them away, alone, across thousands of miles on just the slimmest of hopes that they might be safe. U.S. law doesn’t allow them sanctuary.”
“They walked through some of the most hostile, hot, barren, dangerous country in the world,” she continues. “They were sent by poor families so terrified for their safety that they paid many thousands of dollars and entrusted their children to criminals hoping they might arrive in America and be safe.”
“Our hearts are not touched by these children. We want the law enforced. This is our country. Ours. And we don’t have to share it. Not now. Not 75 years ago.
“Yes, these are children whom we’ll send back to be raped, maimed and killed. They aren’t our children. Our children are precious.”
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