As for Immigration, Let's Get One Thing Clear - America Is Not a Humanitarian Nation!

Iraqi Orphans Should Be Given Priority

The parents, whose children now sit in make-shift centers on our southern border, have gotten America all wrong. They've entrusted their kids to us apparently believing in all the propaganda.  But it's amazing how simple life is when you sweep away the lies. It's true that many of us are warm hearted towards our fellow humans and would do what we could to alleviate suffering to the best of our abilities and up to a point.  But America is a superpower. It invades countries under false pretenses, creates chaos and in Iraq alone is responsible for more than 200,000 deaths of women and children, let alone the 2,000+ casualties of our own sons and daughters.  And that was for lies anyone with good sense knew at the time were lies.  After all, the country was in a state of bloodlust after 9/11 and both parties in Congress with the exception of former Congressman Dennis Kucinich and then Senator Barack Obama, were too fearful of the Israeli lobby to vote otherwise. [The euphemism for such cowardice under foreign influence is the newfangled term "neo-conservatism."].

I haven't a clue as to why anyone would get paid working in a State Department office with a sign on the door called "Human Rights."    I can think of several former White House officials who would be convicted of bonafided war crimes were it not for the fact that the U.S. is not a signatory to the World Court (no doubt for that reason). 

And this brings me to the distressing case of immigrant children lined up on the Mexican border.  As much of a hot button as the GOP and Dems try to make it, immigration is not a moral issue.  At any particular point in our history, we have the power to decide whether we need and wish to have more immigrants or we don't.  America's problem is that it lies to itself. The GOP says that it doesn't, while it does. The wealth of agro-business is built on cheap immigrant labor.  But then again, so for that matter are the careers of many Democratic professional women who as mothers hire cheap nannies and domestics to care for their children. But for Democrats just now to appeal to America's compassion strikes me as nonsensical.  

If we're all that emotionally worked up by the suffering of children, our first priority should be opening our borders to all the Iraqi and Afghani children both parties turned into orphans.  These other kids will just have to wait their turn.

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