For the sake of argument, let's just say there is with crushing throngs of people amassing there.
Why is a wall an answer at all?
There needs to be more of a humanitarian effort, including more judges hearing cases, more social workers assessing families and more lawyers processing cases.
Why is a wall the only answer Trump seems to have?
Don't forget about job placement because most of these folks are looking for work. We know this is not an invading army. Even Pope Francis said so. Perhaps Speaker Pelosi can ask the Pope to make testimony to the court.
February 17, 2016
Pope Francis (click here) called forced migration “a human tragedy” during his Mass in Ciudad Juárez.
“We cannot deny the humanitarian crisis which in recent years has meant the migration of thousands of people, whether by train or highway or on foot, crossing hundreds of kilometers through mountains, deserts and inhospitable zones,” he said. “The human tragedy that is forced migration is a global phenomenon today.”
He described “a journey laden with grave injustices: the enslaved, the imprisoned and extorted,” adding, “So many of these brothers and sisters of ours are the consequence of a trade in human beings.”
He cited poverty, violence, drug trafficking and lawlessness as the root causes of migration to the United States from Central America and Mexico.
Here is more from his remarks:
“Being faced with so many legal vacuums, they get caught up in a web that ensnares and always destroys the poorest. Not only do they suffer poverty, but they must also endure these forms of violence. Injustice is radicalized in the young; they are ‘cannon fodder,’ persecuted and threatened when they try to flee the spiral of violence and the hell of drugs. Then there are the many women unjustly robbed of their lives.
No more death nor exploitation! There is still time to change. There is still a way out and a chance, time to implore the mercy of God.”
Francis saluted the migrant rights groups, priests and lay people “often risking their own lives” to help people on the trail....
