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Border Crisis: Is it About Jobs?

The news pages and blogosphere have been deluged metaphorically in recent weeks by an actual deluge of Central American children to the U.S. border. It’s a morass of issues and problems faced by these kids in their home countries, compounded by the fact that Congress has failed to enact any kind of immigration reform during the Obama presidency. So reports The Daily Beast.

The U.S. is a nation that was founded, defended, torn apart – and ultimately rocketed to 20th-century greatness – by a population of immigrants. In point of fact, President Obama’s Justice Department has deported more than one million illegal aliens. So is it about jobs? Securing our borders? Providing a safe harbor? Politics? All of the above? You decide.

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