Roger Simon's editorial is worth a separate thread.
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/the-big-...n-charade/
"If you sought to preserve the violent, reactionary and undemocratic regimes of countries like El Salvador and Honduras -- and, to a great extent, Mexico -- into perpetuity, how would you do it?
One way would be by providing a permanent U.S. safety valve for all their poor and downtrodden, the victims.
Just as with Europe and the Middle East, open borders can salve the soul and make us all feel good about ourselves, but they come with a price. And that price is not just for the richer host countries in supplying costly services. It is even greater for the countries of origin whose benighted citizens, the stay behinds, are left to suffer under governments that are incompetent, corrupt and often murderous.
Meanwhile, many of their good people (yes, along with some of the bad) are leaving or have left. It would have been those people, working together, that might have fixed their countries. No chance now....
And nothing is likely to change in any substantive way from current events, because serious discussion of the issue is non-existent. Propaganda rules. It is the political football of all time, brought out when politicians seek to score points or distract from other issues that might embarrass them.
That it has been miraculously discovered -- despite having been going on for decades -- that children are being temporarily incarcerated on the border is a perfect example of that. It's no accident this surfaced at the moment the FBI is under fire for the Clinton email investigation and the possibility the organization sought to sabotage the presidency of Donald Trump.
So "immigration" is once again the stalking horse for everything but itself. It is a dumb show with the poor of Central America used as pawns. People will throw up their hands in horror and some children will likely get to stay longer with their parents -- a good thing, obviously -- but the larger reality will not change one iota....
In the midst of all this, compromise will be abjured with both our political parties wedded to placating their bases....
So what's the solution? I wish I had one. I usually try to be optimistic. It's kind of how I see my job, pushing things forward. But in this case it's hard. I've been watching the charade of immigration being played for too long. With everything for propaganda and almost nothing for reality, I don't see the logjam being broken any time soon."
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