Those Who Face the Dangers of Immigration also Deserve Our Care

   With the bodies of 46 migrants who were brought in a tractor-trailor across the border into San Antonio, with 16 others being taken to hospitals, calls for more stringent efforts to stop migrants from coming to our country are being made. It simply isn't safe, they say.

   And, no, it isn't. But the better answer is not to deny them coming to America, but to help them. Many of them arrive and present themselves as refugees. That is legal. If you want to make it illegal, if you want the immigration courts to reject more of them, it will not stop them from coming. They seek an escape from the crime and conditions of the countries they come from. They will flee to the U.S. as long as their is a U.S.

   Efforts to help them arrive safely need to be made. There is no humanity in letting them die  -- no humanity. Whisk them here on trains. Do not feel it wrong to pay that bill. Consider all the money we spend to help hurricane victims. Those who face the dangers of coming to the U.S. also deserve our care.