If you've children at your border needing help, help them. If there's 2,000, yes, you find places to house them and take care of them. If you've 10,000, yes, you can also take care of that high a number.
Biden's press secretary, Jen Psaki, speaks of how they all will not be allowed to stay permanently, but while they are being adjudicated, we should take care of them. I would agree that we should take care of them during the process, but I suggest not turning them back at all, if we can. If there exists no criminal attachments to their pasts (in the teenagers), let them in.
Now, what if they are coming as unaccompanied minors because coming unaccompanied makes us more inclined to accept them? By accepting them, aren't we encouraging them to be separated from their families? Then, search the family for someone who will be with them. Many are fleeing to such family members already here. Ensure that that reunion takes place. Others might be fleeing situations and their parents staying behind because the parents know they themselves cannot escape, but they want their children to have the freedoms they cannot enjoy. Go back and get the parents. Make a way for them, also. We believe in families and we believe in people fleeing oppression. Why would we not want them?
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