Artifact Reflection 3

Hi, all.

Thank you for reading my slightly preachy artifacts even though you totally don't have to.  (Unless you're my new English teacher, in which case you absolutely have to because you assigned it.  This is your doing.)  My third artifact is another article (to be found here).

This is an article posted by USA Today about how deporting everybody won't stop people from coming over.  No matter how many children they catch mid-trip and send back to their country, it won't stop those children from trying again and again and again, because no matter how much money they have to pay cartels to help them across, it will never be worse than going back to their home in Central America, where they can't go to school for fear of being recruited by gangs and they can't eat dinner because there is never food on the table.  The last line of the article is a quote from a fourteen-year-old boy from Hoduras named Brian.  "'We've suffered a lot to try to make our lives better,' he says. 'If they knew what we've been through, they'd let us in.'"

I've never been particularly well-versed in political intricacies, even and especially those relating to border patrol, but I've always sort of viewed the deportation of illegal immigrants as treating the symptom.  Maybe this is because I live in Park City, Utah and have never experienced the full and direct flow of these immigrant children I keep hearing about, but I struggle to believe that deportation can fix all of our problems for us.  I figure, if you truly want to stop this unending flow of people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, maybe you should make some sort of plan to help Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.  I know that won't be easy - there is no magic button - but there are also many, many people who, given the means, would love to help.  I also know it'll take a while - most important things take a while - but in the end, it'll be well worth it.

At the very least, I think they should work to move all these kids out of California and Texas.  Just, you know, diffuse them into the midwest, where we can better handle them.

Maybe I'm just some stupid rich white girl, but...it makes sense to me.

-Allie H-S

P.S: I just realized, this is my fiftieth post!  Yaaaaaay milestone!  Woooooo!