Puttng A Face On It.

Ah, the wall - Trump has asked for 5 billion to build it, his blind followers I'm sure are supporting it. Good theory - keeping "them" out, but my question is, who are they? It's easy to lump a group together when they are not a part of your day, I've often said being a racist is easy unless the person you're being racist against is standing right in front of you - funny how things change once it goes from "they" to "you". I was listening to NPR and they were interviewing that woman with the two girls photographed running from tear gas, one by the hand and the other carried. Damn Illegal, right? Did you know what made her walk all those hundreds of miles to a country that does not want her? With such a slim chance of getting in? That she came with her 5 children, all this way - was it bad parenting? Wanting a free ride?

Where she's from is overrun with gangs and cartels, her daughter has gotten older and the gang members are starting to sexually harrass her - she cannot fight them. At best her daughter faces being forced to be one of thier girlfriends - at worst, gang rape for resisting. Ask yourself - wouldn't you run too and take your chances for the safety of your child? But then they interviewed someone else and I wish I could remember her name. But surprisingly she didn't think the caravan should be let into the country and I agree wholely, there is not another nation in the world that would allow that and we would be foolish to do so. The speaker went on to talk about a social project that was done in a city in Honduras where they took the model from a gang infested town here and used it there.

They opened a center for the kids to go, family therapy was free, they made it possilbe for people to testify safely against the gang members to the extreme of a witness being carried into the courtroom in closed box using a voice distorter for a sucessful conviction. In two years they decreased murder in this town by 63%, gang members were routinely being convicted - it worked. And maybe that's the answer - as far as cost wouldn't it be easier and more cost effective to help them fix their country so they can live there, rather then us have to support them? I loved this answer, it would not be easy but in the long run it would benefit our nation too, not to mention the best scenario financially. And before you say not my problem - did you know the flow of heroin has tripled and meth quadrupled in the past few years from south of the border? It is our problem.