Citizen's Empire: Addressing Immigration influx along Sante Fe Borders.

Addressing Immigration influx along Sante Fe Borders

Congress should fund the request made by Barack Obama to help expedite the processing while improving the quality of detention facilities along the border. The children under care of the United States of America need to be provided the utmost care. Many of the problems circulate around the fact that it is often difficult to locate the parents of the children before their hearings creating a need for alternative options, particularly as it pertains to immigrants from central America where there are often significant delays to the return to their home countries that Mexican immigrants do not face.

With close to 100,000 young migrants flooding our border from Central American countries, it is time for the Commonwealth countries, America and India, threw the Episcopalian church, the global community threw the Catholic Church and the United States threw the State Department and Peace Corps to come together to allocate $750,000,000 in immediate, and 250,000,000 in annual budgets, to build 500 faith-based boarding schools in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to accommodate the children that have been sent to the United States that are currently under the care of Homeland Security, ICE and Border Patrol. There is a tremendous opportunity to reach across barriers of faith and state, to address the humanitarian situation in a way that complies with US law and avoids undercutting the prospects for these countries to improve standards of living and upsetting tensions in Texas where communities and school districts are reluctant to absorb the population. Schools built to house and educate 200 students each, can be built and maintained, with teachers provided by the peace corps, materials by the state department, in addition to funds raised by the Catholic and Episcopalian churches to augment personnel from their respective diocese to provide additional care.

The US can work with Mexico to improve the workings of Mexico's Southern Border and increase social marketing campaigns directed towards the vulnerable populations of central America to dissuade the dangerous decision to entrust their children's care to mirky promises of a life in America, with which their transit has been capitalized upon by drug cartels as a decoy for their drug smuggling operations. Improved investments in boarding schools in the their home countries, is a far better way to provide for their care and relieve some of the stresses of their parents, without separating them from their parents indefinitely, or overwhelmingly exhausted foster care services in the United States. Expansion in the peace corp can effectively provide teachers, while creating jobs for recent college graduates with particularly high unemployment rates, opening up career paths in teaching and with the State Department. These actions can serve to improve the United States public image in these regions while bolstering our positive impact, gradually pushing these regions beyond the old cold war paradigm of right wing military units vs. marxist leftists, to the moderate progressive answer of market-based democracies with common law norms. I'm calling on the State Department to contribute 250,000,000, the Episcopalian church, 250,000,000 and the Catholic Church 250,000,000 to give these children a future and their countries the promise of a well educated group of leaders to transform and modernize their countries economies and government.

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