What to do?

I picked up the following story from American Public Media's The Story




Nowadays, one of the most controversial issues of our times in this country where we live is illegal immigration. Maybe, perhaps listening to this story it might make us think and not be too quick to judge. There are many people that come into this country, yes, illegally but not out of their own choosing. There are many that come whilst still infants or young kids, surely they have no control of their destiny at that age. They grow up in this land they know so well and love so much unbeknownst to them this is not their land.

As an example, when one is adopted as a child and grows to love their adopted parents as his or her own, the reality of them not being the biological parents, does that take away the fact they have cared for and tended to the well being of the child. Suppose the child grows up and is told these people are not his real parents. Does he stop loving them, does he automatically lose value?
He can acknowledge his real parents but in his heart his adopted parents are irreplaceable and no one will ever take their place.

There are thousands of people if not millions that have grown up here and made their lives here. This country is all they know. Yet, the truth of the matter is that some people will argue they don't belong here. Why not?

This is a discussion that will go on for a long time and people will continue to be up-rooted from the place the know as home.

Now I understand that the law is the law. Fine.

I don't see kids being convicted and tried for crimes their parents committed long time ago. Is it shameful, perhaps. Truth is we are individuals and should be treated as such. I don't think many people would be in favor of doing just that if we were talking about another crime or topic... so why exactly is this different?

As I see it. More harm is being done in returning these people to a place they hardly know at all. It is inhumane and unethical, in my opinion.

The sad part about this is that many of these people being returned are kids that had dreams and aspirations like their American born counterparts. People with intelligence and a drive to succeed in education and in life. People whose only crime was being too small to have any say on their parents' decision to bring them here in the first place.