The BostonGlobe failed to recognize that this feeling of distress is what military families go through repeatedly. The military member must go when deployed or restationed. They have no choice, as they chose to serve their country due to their loyalty to the United States. As a consequence, the children and spouse are left behind, unless they are sent somewhere the family can accompany them, even though uprooted.
The BostonGlobe failed to mention that unlike military families, the illegal immigrant parents could avoid this trauma for their children by leaving the country voluntarily, signing up for re-entry if qualified, and suffer no separation from their families.
The BostonGlobe failed to mention that the children and families can be deported with them, unless the person if the crime is being here illegally. It is the parent's choice to abandon their children in the United States, just as it was their choice to bring or give birth to them here.
The BostonGlobe failed to acknowledge that the vast majority of immigrants who crossed the border illegally answer to the cartels, since they must identify themselves and their friends and families to the cartel and then pay the cartel to cross, whether or not they are escorted. These people can be forced to pay or commit crimes under threat of harm or death to their families in their countries or origin. Quite a number of illegals are enslaved or forced to work as indentured workers, or worse, as sex slaves... including children.
In my own daily activities, I inadvertently come across people who surreptitiously give me indications that they are indentured or enslaved in veiled clues as we talk. Sadly, in the past, I missed what would be obvious to anyone aware of the slavery issue (I wasn't at that time).
Where have I encountered those indentured or slaves? Gas stations with mini-marts, nail salons, and construction sites. Most gas station mini-mart workers speak a decent amount of English. Nail salon technicians either are not required to be licensed or the owners simply ignore the law. Many indentured/enslaved "illegal" men work for construction sites.
How are illegals identified?
1. If you notice that different workers at the same or similar place all give a similar story of their backgrounds or lives, that's a clue.
2. If the person doing doesn't seem to want to talk to you or can't speak English, that's a tiny indicator.
3. Or, when holidays come and you ask if they will be spending it with their families, they lament they won't, haven't for a while, and won't be able to see them for a long time.
4. If they glance around furitively as they speak to you, that's another indicator they may be indentured or outright enslaved.
5. If they are brought to a work site stuffed into the covered bed of a pickup or packed into the back of a truck with no or blacked-out windows, that's a clue.
6. For ICE, tips are usually given as to the location of a wanted criminal illegal immigrant. In the process of apprehension, other illegal immigrants are frequently encountered, detained, identified, and deported.
The BostonGlobe failed to mention the solution... stop illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is an expensive, dangerous, and arduous undertaking. If you love immigrants, encourage those here illegally to leave and come back legally, because laws will continue to be enforced for the protection and benefit of our country. Those who come illegally will be identified and deported immediately, without time to get their affairs in order.
Over decades, the most driven, hard working, good people have been siphoned off to the United States. Unfortunately with them come hardened criminals, cartel members and obligants, mentally ill, drug addicts, and physically disabled, whose goal is to take advantage of our system. Our president has offered to help some of those countries fight the issues that are making their most productive citizens flee. These immigrants who are determined to work and build a life need to work to make changes in their own countries.
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