<p>Zoo, thanks, it’s hard to read in a small phone.</p>
<p>It’s interesting about the unaccompanied undocumented minors who’ve been coming to the US lately. By and large, they’re not from Mexico, though Mexico is a poor country with a very large population that’s right next to the United States. They’re not from Costa Rica, Panama or Nicaragua, although all three of those countries are poor Central American countries right next to the countries where the minors are coming from. Rather, they’re coming from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The difference is that El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are, right now, run by drug gangs. </p>
<p>Those kids are not fleeing poverty-- they’re fleeing gang violence. Boys are pressed in to service as drug mules, and murdered if they refuse. Girls are kidnapped and raped.</p>
<p>And they’re not all coming to the US. They’re going to Panama and Costa Rica too, because Panama and Costa Rica have stable governments. </p>
<p>If drug lords told my 15-year-old son that he had to join them or be killed, I’d send him out of the country too.</p>
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<p>“Here’s a look at the U.N.'s latest tally of nations with the highest homicide rates:
Honduras: 90.4 (per 100,000)
Venezuela: 53.7
Belize: 44.7
El Salvador: 41.2
Guatemala: 39.9”
<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/world/un-world-murder-rates/”>U.N. report reveals world's highest murder rates; Honduras tops list - CNN;
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<p>If the “poor or middle class Americans” were admitted to Harvard, they’d have all of their need met as well. But please feel free to let your xenophobia shove logic aside. If you got in, you wouldn’t want to be punished for your parents’ mistakes, would you? It’s not like the kid was a part of the so-called conspiracy.</p>
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<p>By your logic, why should int’l students be punished with having to apply for a student visa? It’s not their fault that their parents made the mistake of not cutting the immigration line.</p>
<p>I hate all the politics involved with the immigration crisis right now. If I had it my way I’d say, we’d stop worrying about all the details and recognize them as equal human beings, in difficult situations making difficult choices that we probably wouldn’t make any different. You can say, “Well, I’d do it the legal way,” but would you really? Mmm…no. I just wish that people would stop making snide comments about people in difficult situations. In a hundred years our :great-grandchildren will be wondering why our generation hated immigrants. :(</p>
<p>Lots of xenophobes in this thread… everyone is a human being. Please take your hate somewhere else :)</p>
<p>@runner, no one here hates immigrants. Many of us here, myself included, have gone to significant effort to assist them. </p>
<p>What do u think wd happen if the US had completely open borders, and made EVERYONE eligible for public services? Who’s going to pay for this? You?</p>
<p>Every country has the right to protect its borders. That does not equal hating immigrants…at ALL. </p>
<p>If the kids are here illegally, THEY are breaking the law!</p>
<p>How can an illegal get state licensure and a job without ID? How can he go to school without a social security number and ID? </p>
<p>They are supposed to GO HOME! Not continue breaking the law!</p>
<p>@GMTplus7 No one said anything about completely opening borders; you brought it up yourself. Why are you viciously attacking people with different viewpoints? All I’m saying is that this kid should be given a chance and not condemned because he suddenly found out that he’s undocumented.</p>
<p>I wonder how you can go to med school, get licensed, and get a job as a doctor…if you do not even have ID???</p>
<p>We are not talking about one particular kid nor Harvard. We’re talking about general policy.</p>
<p>If he is illegal…how is he qualified? </p>
<p>And he DID choose to be illegal! </p>
<p>If he did not, he would turn himself in and get the heck out!</p>
<p>Would you want to give up everything you worked hard for? If you got into the school of your dreams, would you be “moral” enough to throw it all away and go back to nothing? Plenty of qualified people are denied opportunities simply because of who they are. They don’t even have to be illegal immigrants.</p>
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<p>Post #236 makes absolutely no sense. As far as I’m concerned Harvard is not the end all and be all. There are plenty of schools in USA that you will do well. It doesn’t have to be Harvard. I’m not envy this Harvard thing.
What the heck is moral come in here?
60% of Recent poll by investor daily doesn’t want Obama to act on immigration alone. This whole open border thing has made American people think twice about supporting immigration reform. It’s sort of abuse when you see hordes of people come across the border like this. </p>
<p>@DrGoogle I was replying specifically to @UnFathful:</p>
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<p>I also agree with you in that there shouldn’t be open borders. And no, I don’t think Harvard is the “end all and be all.”</p>