Thank you for this insight - altho' I am Canadian I am following the new 'reality show' that is your politics.
I keep holding onto the thought that 'it is darkest before dawn' and hope that dawn is coming soon. Your politics is just a sympton of things worldwide and the world needed this wake up call. We have our own election coming in October and I am so hoping that enough people will realize that the Conservative Party is not to be trusted anymore than the Republicans are there. The Liberals are far far from perfect and yet, imo, the better of the two and best of the three.
Back to your post - I am hoping that the results of the policies you have shown is that there will be less animal cruelty and more kindness to immigrants.
Emma JC
I sure do hope the dawn is coming soon - for people as well as animals.
I've been losing sleep over the immigrant thing. I do not, for one instant, believe that the democratic party cares at all about the well-being of the immigrants. If they cared, they would be finding ways to care for the immigrants before they reach the border. instead of just using them as pawns in election politics.
There are HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people who need to get to safety. There are over 11 million immigrants in this country right now. Those immigrants are running from violence and murder, gangs, poverty.....and those violent, murdering gang members ARE coming across with them. How can we openly take people in without finding out who they are? How can we give them a more peaceful and safe existence in this country, and still keep the citizens of this country safe, without proper vetting? Also - they need to be immunized and screened for tuberculosis, smallpox etc. When the Europeans came to this continent we wiped out almost all the people who were here before us, not only by conquering them with weapons but through smallpox and measles. We vaccinated our population until smallpox was eradicated from the united states and then stopped vaccinating people because it wasn't necessary anymore. We so nearly got rid of measles that now a huge portion of our population believes the risk of vaccinating against measles outweighs the benefits. We worked very, very hard to eliminate tuberculosis. Now most of our population is unvaccinated and TB is increasing. We all need to make some trips to old graveyards and look at home many early American children died young. I think it was something like half of all children died before reaching adulthood. Central and South America did not eradicate measles or TB - and they still have some smallpox.
I work at a hospital in an area where there are quite a lot of immigrants. We don't ask for any type of documentation - we just treat them (for free). IDK how many are undocumented but my guess is most of them are. They don't speak English and many of them clearly haven't been here long. We have most certainly treated South American gang members and have seen a lot of victims of violence. We live in a human trafficking hotspot. Sometimes Mexican or South American girls come in to the ER accompanied by white men who do appear to be pimps. We have a network of physicians who volunteer their time to provide them with free medical care. We have a crew of Spanish-speaking first responders who go to the homes of the people after they're seen in the ER, to make sure they get the follow-up care they need. We have interpreters working at the hospital 24/7.
We can't just let people continue to flood in - it has to be a controlled immigration. When our ancestors immigrated here, they were documented. Plus there was a plan in place for where they would go - the previous inhabitants had all been murdered and the land was empty, available for homesteading. The immigrants who didn't homestead were put to work building railroads. What system do we have in place to absorb our new immigrants? Why have we not come up with a plan? Because everybody's too busy using them as pawns to try to get themselves elected. If we truly cared about them we'd be finding a way to build new cities and find a humane way to absorb this increase in population. Put the immigrants to work building sewage and irrigation systems, hospitals....
The whole situation at the detention centers is very sad. We have a crisis at the border and the infrastructure isn't in place to handle it. The saddest part is - the immigrants are willing to endure it. That's how bad things were where they came from. It seems to me that if we had the right people in place we could find a way to at least allow the immigrants more space, safety and comfort while they waited South of the border. I'm sure the American people would be happy to donate food and clothing, labor to build latrines etc.
Nobody seems to want to solve the problem at all, they just want to flap their mouths.
