Should illegal immigrants ever be separated from their US citizen children?

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112. Actually there are two conjoined problems

First, our trade policies. Most blatantly is the fact that it's cheaper to buy American corn in Mexico, than it is to buy Mexican corn, because of US subsidies. We have, in effect, killed all local agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean; Jamaica used to have a thriving dairy industry... and then we literally destroyed it. Same with rice in Haiti; our subsidizations and trade "agreements" obliterated the main crops in these countries and replaced them with American=produced stuff.

We have, in effect, created millions of destitute homeless people outside our borders, and we have done so intentionally, to benefit our agricorps.

And then these people, with nowhere else to turn, come north to our borders, only to find that in order to get into the "land of the free," you have to have some wealth to spare. It all comes out to a total of $5,000 or so, just to get the basic paperwork filed; you can still be deported no problem if you make even a small misstep.

So how about that? We create widespread destitution, and then close our border to the destitute.

Don't give me this sob story bullshit about the people who filed all their papers legally. I mean hey, good for them, I'm happy they could and did do that, thumbs up. But for every one of them there are fifty more people who cannot do this. It's not that they will not - there's that right-wing mythmaking again - it's that they flat cannot accomplish it. A lack of funds, some criminal record, lack of "marketable skill," etc.