Houston mom is furious: 'Why can't they go back?'

The Right Scoop
7/9/2014

Bernadette Lancelin is very upset that the unaccompanied minors flooding across the border aren’t being sent back home. Instead they are being put in detention centers around the country. Lancelin is out with the local news in Houston because a closed middle school that hasn’t been used in years is now on the list to become another detention center. And she, among others, is furious about it…

…”I’m sorry that their parents are in poor living conditions or surroundings or whatever’s going on out there. I don’t care.

I care about what’s going on right here in my own back yard, my neighborhood.

Am i the only one in this community that’s out here that watches the news this morning. Oh, my god! I feel alone right now this this, and I’m very saddened by it.”

The complete article, with video, is at The Right Scoop.

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…This is the time for the president to engage in something a little more strenuous than hashtag diplomacy and a round of golf. He needs to have some hard words for our neighbors to the south, demanding answers and repayment for the funds expended by the American government on their citizens’ behalf, because contrary to popular belief, American taxpayers do not have unlimited funds.

And if the governments of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and, yes, Mexico, are failing to the point that they cannot take care of their children to the point that they are causing a humanitarian crisis in neighboring countries, then perhaps they should be treated as the failed states they are. Let’s put their nations into a sort of international receivership, and figure out what their problems are (beyond widespread crime and corruption). Their governments have now made their failures our problems by sending their refugees illegal border crossers into our country; so perhaps instead of the UN wanting to poke their noses about here, the UN could go muck about down there and actually do some good instead of just trying to get free press…