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Saw this today.
It's hard to watch.
I feel nothing but empathy for this poor kid.
She watched her brother get shot and was told she was about to become property..or die.
Cable News Finally Asks A Real Migrant Teenager About The Immigration Crisis | ThinkProgress
Maria, a 17-year-old, paid a coyote to bring her into the United States after her brother was killed by a gang and she was threatened with death if she did not join it. Fighting tears, she described to Díaz-Balart the process of crossing the border as “horrible” and explained that she decided to enter the country “just to save my own life so that I could live my dreams, so I could help my family.” Deportation “would be a tragedy, it would be a certain death for me,” she added. “Everything that’s happened to me in my life, I would just know that that would be the last day.” Watch it:
It's fucking incredible that people want to turn their backs on these kids.
Even moreso since it was this country that created the hellholes they live in.
Feel free to take her in.
While you're at it why don't you take in a bunch of starving kids from Africa.
I'd feel much better if my tax dollars were used to make the world a better place.
One where we don't have 700 bases in foreign countries. Where commerce as opposed to the military is key to our relations to other countries. Where other countries are free to set up their own governments without the interference of the US military or CIA.
That would be cool.