tailgater wrote:Did you read the article you linked, or just look at the pictures?
Second paragraph:
"Since October, more than 52,000 children — most from Central America and many of them unaccompanied by adults — have been taken into custody. That's nearly double last year's total and 10 times the number from 2009."
When a problem escalates almost exponentially, it is important to remain (or become) proactive.
Sitting back and pointing fingers and asking for more money and threatening executive orders and accusing others of not doing enough while the head honcho himself has let this grow by a FACTOR OF 10 under his watch can not be considered the best approach.
Accept the children.
Shoot the parents.
That's why I said "it's been increasing over the years".
As in, this year is more than last year. That year was probably more than the year before it.
If we're looking at a 10x increase from 2009, and a doubling from 2013 to 2014, there's probably two more doublings between 2009-2013. Perhaps I wasn't clear, but I wasn't talking about increasing over large amounts of time. Just that it's more than just what everyone's talking about this year.
OK Tail. I'll ask you the same question which TCBY ignored. What would you like Obama to do which he has not already done?
I'm open to suggestions... honestly. I'd be open to shooting children at the border, or gas chambers or whatever. But no one's suggested that yet, and we'd have to get congress to pass a law. I mean, I guess Obama could vacation to texas or something and stand guard at the border himself. But other than that, he has to ask for money.