House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Saturday urged her fellow lawmakers to treat the children detained along the southern border with respect during a trip to Texas to assess the influx of unaccompanied minors crossing the border there.
“This is a community with a border going through it. And this crisis — that some call a ‘crisis’ — we have to view as an opportunity,” Pelosi said at a press conference, according to Business Insider.
“What we just saw was so stunning. If you believe as we do that every child, that every person, has a spark of divinity in them and is therefore worthy of respect, what we saw in those rooms was [a] dazzling, sparkling array of God’s children, worthy of respect,” she continued. “We have to use the crisis — that some view as a crisis, and it does have crisis qualities — as an opportunity to show who we are as Americans, that we do respect people for their divinity and worth.”
Nancy is my House Representative and I have enormous respect and admiration for her. She remains optimistic that House Rs will understand the need to care for children in a desperate situation, but I’ve only ever seen House Rs express concerns for fetuses, not living breathing “God’s children” especially migrants whose lives are in peril if they were to stay in Central America.
If you go to the link to Business Insider don’t read the comments as I did out of curiosity. These are the knuckle draggers the House listens to.
Has Senor Cruz (R-TX) and his padre pappy been there yet to witness the “dazzling, sparkling array of God’s children worthy of respect” encamped along the Texas border?
Oh wait, they’re Cubanos, no los otros and hard-core protestant fundy Cristanos, no los otros “cristanos”!
Never mind.
The first thing we need to do is end the immigration double standard. Why should people crossing the southern U.S. border be treated any different than people immigrating from Europe, Asia, or the Middle East?
Furthermore, Pelosi’s comments don’t even make a modicum of sense. When she implores the public to give these children “respect,” is that simply code for “allow them to stay and pursue their dreams?”
This entire crisis is attributable more to President Obama than it is to Republicans.
Why?
Because when a president opts to only enforce some of our immigration laws while selectively NOT enforcing other laws that he doesn’t like, then cracks in the system begin to develop. And when cracks develop, certain people are going to fall into those cracks. In this case, it is illegal children.
I think most Americans agree that comprehensive immigration reform is desperately needed in this country, but until that happens, ALL the current laws must be enforced. With the administration opting to not deport illegal children (as should happen per the law), what we’re seeing are thousands of children, with no friends or family to turn to, literally get stuck. They have nowhere to go. They have nothing to do. They have no money. These are the unfortunate souls who are currently cooped up in holding pens in Arizona and Texas.
And this situation is President Obama’s fault. Selective enforcement will ALWAYS create unintended consequences and that is exactly what we are seeing right now.
Well, bless your heart! You are the perfect Republican, as shown by the fact that you care more about scoring cheap political points against Obama than you do about the fate of thousands of impoverished, scared children. Do you get like a special badge for that?
I’m not a Republican in any way, shape, or form. I’m one of those coveted “independent voters.” And, actually, considering that a vast majority of campaign money from both parties is spent in the handful of battleground states vying for the votes of people like me…yes, I sort of DO have a badge…a badge given to me by the Dems and the GOP.
Regardless, your deflection is a very typical response for a partisan. Believe me, if you go to Republican websites, they respond much the same whenever you try to call them out for anything.
Bottom line: this is particular issue is Obama’s mess and it’s his sole responsibility to clean it up.