Are you at all selective about whom you invite into your home? Most of us are. We invite those we believe will be good company and will behave themselves.
The United States is our home. Should we not be selective in whom we invite to share it with us? I believe we should, and have every right to do so.
People urge asylum be given kids from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala because at home they are at risk from gangs. Is their risk any greater than that of children living in gang-ridden, violent Chicago or Baltimore or East L.A. or Oakland?
The probable answer is "not much." Places where large numbers of poor people live are normally dangerous, the risk comes from hoodlum neighbors.
The solution to the unlawful Central American migration is mass deportation. Congress needs to get busy facilitating this process.
