Why is it fair to allow illegal aliens to enter our country and stay without any sort of penalty?  Mainstream media and the left scream about a temporary separation of children from families as if this has never been done before yet it has been a practice for many years.  No one seemed to care under Obama or under Bush so why now is it a problem?

The Democrats are such incredible hypocrites using this plight to further their ultimate agenda which is to open our borders to any and all comers.  American citizens who are arrested and jailed are regularly separated from their children, frequently for years.  How about our military personnel who are separated from their children for months at a time?  And then, what about the American citizens who are killed by illegal aliens and thus are permanently separated from their families?

Whose responsibility is this?  What about the migrant parents who choose to allow their children to be separated so they can illegally enter our country?  Families who enter legally are NOT separated.  Yes, it is sad to hear the crying of children but why doesn’t the illegally-entering mother or father turn around and try to seek asylum legally?

It is unknown how many illegal aliens presently live in this country, but it has been estimated to be in the neighborhood of 12.5 million!  If we continue to allow them to enter through our porous southern border, this number will continue to rise.  The Federation for American Immigration Reform released a fascinating study in 2017, “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration”.  They concluded that it costs U.S. taxpayers over $115 Billion for the education, medical costs, justice enforcement, and welfare payments for illegal aliens and their children.  WOW!  This is AFTER taking into account any federal or state taxes paid by these individuals.  If that is true, that means the cost to us tax-paying Americans is more than $800 apiece.

President Trump recently suggested cutting foreign aid to Central American countries to perhaps incentivize them to keep their citizens so, just out of curiosity, I decided to see how much foreign aid we give to central American countries; the most recently published year is 2016 and totaled a mere $665 million and change—a drop in the bucket against the cost to keep these people (and I even included Belize and Panama who I do not believe are illegally sending people through our borders).

We need Congress to get together to build our wall.  This is NOT a political issue.  It is a practical one.  If the left-leaning liberals truly believe we should allow these people into our country, I do have a suggestion.  We can keep the families together.  You come forward and volunteer to sponsor and take in an illegal immigrant family into your home.  Then, you put up a bond to ensure their appearance when their court dates finally come up.  Maybe this would work.  Put up or shut up.