Imagine children migrating without their parents to America, thousands of them crossing the border illegally, most coming from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, large numbers of them being under the age of 13.
Let's say 47,000 of them were apprehended in the last eight months. Can you imagine such a phenomenon, so many children migrating so far without parental supervision?
News stories are reporting it, so I imagine it is really happening, but I'm awed. One story says many of the children are driven from Central American by the violence and poverty in their countries. So many children are being caught that the apprehending authorities are having trouble taking care of them, and the Obama Administration is asking for $1.4 billion to care for them.
A humanitarian crisis at our southern border.
If we must use federal money, we must, for we clearly want to take care of them. Still, I do wish we were turning to private charity to house these children and, when there are family members they are hoping to join already in the U.S., to transport them to those families. I can imagine there might be a great outpouring of support for such charities, as people rally to save the children.
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