tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post1377255851660683068..comments2024-03-27T21:19:02.636-05:00Comments on The Nature of Things: A photo op is not what is needed Dorothy Bordershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12441731296027227394noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post-56755463010553778082014-07-10T08:22:51.574-05:002014-07-10T08:22:51.574-05:00There are actually people - religious groups and p...There are actually people - religious groups and political entities, some of them here in Texas - that are responding with compassion and trying to help. Unfortunately, as too often happens, their voices are drowned out by the haters, like the group of people in Murrieta, California who got together to scream and spit at the buses carrying children. You are absolutely right that it is a humanitarian crisis. It deserves a humane solution. Dorothy Bordershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12441731296027227394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post-21415862770741312652014-07-10T07:41:53.021-05:002014-07-10T07:41:53.021-05:00I thought this was interesting: http://fivethirtye...I thought this was interesting: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/immigration-is-changing-much-more-than-the-immigration-debate/<br /><br />The thing that irritates me more than any other is that if this was happening anywhere else in the world, it would be a 'refugee crisis', or a 'humanitarian crisis'. Here it's a 'tidal wave of illegal immigrants'. It's children! What kind of situation would you have to be in that would be bad enough to make you send your child away, alone, to a foreign country, where they didn't speak the language and hope that the people there would have enough compassion to treat them like more than prisoners. Americans seem to be lacking in the compassion department lately, despite all the posturing by religious groups and Congress.K Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16908140154868623922noreply@blogger.com