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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
Agreed, my opinion is we should be tackling it in the reverse order.
Work on other stuff and we may find we need far less wall than currently proposed.
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I listened to an interview with an immigrant who talked about the message they get in Honduras - bring your child and apply for asylum and you are much more likely to get in and stay while your asylum case is being decided, plus your kid gets a head start on life in a place where there is work. The smuggler charges a lower price for adults with a kid.
That's the message they get.
How much suffering could we stop by correcting the message they receive in their home country? Educate them before they leave of the dangers and the small likelihood that their lives will actually be better. If there really is an interest in alleviating the humanitarian crisis we would be putting resources into preventing them from embarking on a journey fraught with that we describe as "murders, rapes, and assualts", we would be working to stop them from embarking. It's cruel and ultimately a recipe for failure if all we do is put up a barrier and let them suffer the murders, rapes, assualts, and other depredations on the journey north and only then let them figure out that they had been lied to by the trafficers.