Illegal Youth

From the BBC:
"Obama: Migrant youths without claims will be sent home"

President Barack Obama has told Central American leaders that migrant children flooding into the US without legitimate legal claims will be sent home. The presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador met Mr Obama at the White House on Friday to discuss the crisis at the US southern border.

More than 50,000 children, many unaccompanied, have been detained at the border since October.

He praised his Central American counterparts for their ongoing efforts within their own nations to deter children from travelling illegally to the US, but said more work must be done to combat the "significant challenge" and alleviate the conditions that move parents to send them on the perilous trip. "We have to deter a continuing influx of children putting themselves at great risk," he said. But he said, "Children who do not have proper claims and families with children who do not have proper claims at some point will be subject to repatriation to their home countries." The migrants - mostly from Central America - have been driven north by a spike in gang violence in their home countries, by extreme poverty, and amid incorrect rumours children will be allowed to stay if they make it across the border. Also at issue is a 2008 US law that grants unaccompanied children from countries that do not border the US an automatic asylum hearing, thereby preventing their immediate removal from the country. Earlier this month, his administration requested $3.7bn (£2.2bn) in emergency funds for tighter border security, care for the children, detention and removal programmes, and immigration courts.  But Republican lawmakers said they would not give Mr Obama a "blank cheque" without changes to US immigration policy. Conservative politicians have blamed Mr Obama's immigration policy for the crisis, and some in the Congress have called for the repeal of the 2008 asylum law.

^ The 2008 law does need to be repealed and all the illegal children (and adults for that matter) need to be deported from the country. Ilegal means criminal and we can not allow criminals (whether they are trying to find work or are murders) to go unpunished. The reason so many illegals come to the US is because we don't have the right immigration laws, the tight border security or anything like that to deter them. If they are found they are given amnesty and allowed to stay. That is the wrong thing to do. I am all for more legal immigrants and tourists to come to the US, but we seem to only tighten our immigration rules for those from places that have high standards of living (ie Europe, Japan, Australia, etc) but do nothing about those from the poverty-stricken areas (Ie Mexico, Central and South America, etc.) We make stupid immigration policies for the US-Canadian border (like forcing the residents of a divided border town to call the border official every time they cross the street while we allow thousands of illegals to run wild on our border with Mexico. Ever since Canada imposed visa restrictions on Mexicans the number of illegal immigrants coming from the US-Canadian border has dropped while those on the US-Mexican border continue. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28490544