Written by: A. Allan Schmid
Primary Source: The Troublesome Economist
For Shame America. More than 57,000 young migrants have been apprehended, coming without parents, mostly from Central America since October. At great expense, we have thousands of immigration control officers and elaborate fences. I try to imagine the desperation of parents to send their children north hoping to escape killing and rape by drug gangs. Do we need extensive interviews to determine if these children are eligible for entry? We are ruining our neighbors.
The whole thing is our fault. If we treated our addicts, the demand and profits of the drug trade would dry up.
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Alfred Allan Schmid, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Taught at MSU for 47 years in the Dept. of Agricultural, Food, Resource Economics. In addition to scholarly books, he more recently published a historical novel entitled "The Quest for Land and Fortune."

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