By Catherine Davis | 2.18.17
Commentator, Editor, L&SS
Although this family broke US law, I can't help but empathize with them; I mean, I feel for their plight! Most, like this family, are fleeing for their lives from places such as the Sudan, Syria, and other places, where terrorism is running rampant and innocent civilians have been killed either outright, or they were killed after they became caught in the middle of fights when terrorist bombed military personnel from the Syria, the US, or Russia! This family; however, says one of the men in this group as he responded to questioning from US border patrol, is Sudanese.
I feel so very sad thinking about the panic that each of them had to have felt as they ran as fast as they could from US officials who would have detained them in light of President Trump's latest Executive Order that bans entry of all immigrants from the Sudan. Even though this family has been in the US for two years, they feared that Trump would have them sent back to the Sudan - They must have heard about the uptick in (ICE) Immigration and Customs Enforcement -US- arrest across the nation! Where ICE is, no illegal immigrant is safe from deportation! Heck, they are even arresting immigrants with permission to be here - immigrants like the ones brought here as children, who are on a special program (DACA) Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals- President Obama formed) that allows them to stay temporarily.
Canada's mounted border police helped this family make it across the rest of the way into their country so that they could seek asylum. If they claimed asylum before making it into Canada, it would not have been granted to them. Now that they are there, they'll be taken to a refuge camp and given assistance with food and shelter and hopefully jobs as well.
I think it's unfair to put all immigrants into to one pot suggesting that they're all alike and are criminals for breaking the United States laws. Of course some of them are true criminals and commit heinous crimes such as rape and murder, but most of the are law abiding and deserve to be treated humanely (no one should deny this truth). In other wards, if they've lived in North America for decades, why can't we let them stay? We can send the ones crossing the border recently back to their countries of origin.
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