My family is in poverty. My son is 15 and is being forced into a gang. I have the opportunity to use all that I have to hire (with others) a bus to take my son to the US border where he might be accepted in or not. Desperation maybe, but not child abuse.
Then people from these countries need to know that kids in the USA are being forced into gangs too. Sadly, our country isn't immune from that.
Our system to take care of these children - within the system - isn't all that much better either. So, you have all these abandon kids that come here - into a system that can be just as corrupt as what they left at times. It maybe different in some aspects, but can be just as cruel.
We also need to think abut the 'accepted or not' part. What happens to them if they aren't?
Congress needs to think of a way to take on these cases starting from where these individuals are, and of course we have been saying that for 40+ years....so we all know how truly concerned they are and where that is on the priority list.
So they leave a country they feel don't care about them, into another fractured system that may feed them...but sadly not much more.
This whole thing is just heart breaking.
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