YEAH! HOW'S THAT FOR A BLOG TITLE TO START THINGS OFF. GUESS I'LL JUST HAVE TO EXPLAIN, IF I CAN.
A couple of years ago the news broke the story about a 10 year old gild in Albuquerque who was found murdered. While that is horrific enough, it turns out that she was murdered by her mother, a cousin and a boy friend of the mother or the cousin. I've never been too clear on that. She was apparently raped, tortured, given drugs or alcohol before hand. After she was murdered she was being dismembered when the police arrived. The news showed pictures of the girl and she was a pretty girl. She did not deserve what happened to her. Now, two years later, trials for those involved are looming. Or I should say were looming. A few weeks back her mother took a plea deal and got a very reduced sentence. She now claims that she was not even there when this happened. The boy friend has a trial date coming up. The cousin, a female, was to go on trial this week. Unexpectedly she took a plea deal yesterday claiming that the boy friend did and she will "cooperate" with law enforcement to testify against the friend when he goes to trial soon. For this deal she gets 50 years in prison with a chance to get out in 20 years with good behavior. She has a long prison record already and she has not been one to behave in prison, so we will see. Now they "law enforcement" are saying that there is no DNA linking the boy friend to the killing and the mother said she and her were not even there, but a 4th individual that so far has not been identified actually did the killing, so it seems that the boy friend will get off scot free. Mean while no one seems to know who this 4th individual is, although someone had to be there when this took place. You just have to wonder why no one is talking.
Along similar lines, kinda, two children have died along the southern border. One El Paso and One In New Mexico. By some strange twist of fate, the one that died in El Paso entered the United States in New Mexico, and the one that died in New Mexico entered the United States in Texas. Both children got/were sick and died within days of arriving here. Both were from Central America and had been brought a couple of thousand miles by a father, who then entered the United States illegally, in a remote area where there is no physical facilities to take care of them. While the news decries there deaths, and politicians have rushed to the border to see who they can blame and what needs done to "improve" the situation, they seem to forget that if the father hadn't drug these children across thousands of miles through who knows what kind of circumstances, then to enter the United States in remote areas illegally, much, if not all, of the blame needs to be put on the parent. If the dad's are seeking a better life here for their families, then come here and try to do that, but don't drag your children along with you on that kind of a journey.
Now that last bit is a good enough lead in for the last topic for this post. That is the DACA program. President Obama instituted this program this program when Congress failed to do their job. A job he was trying to get them to do and finally just did it with an executive order. This order was scheduled to end in 2018, but President Trump ended it a little sooner than planned and he too told Congress, "now do your job". They didn't and they haven't. They can and they should. At the time President Trump ended this program, he said if Congress would pass legislation to take care of those under DACA he would sign it. How that would play out now, I wouldn't venture to guess. I think that something should be done, but with one caveat. There needs to be a way to prove that a person filing for citizenship under this program needs to prove they were brought here as a child when they had no control over the actions of their parents. The problem is this; If a person were to enter the country illegally, in one of those remote areas already mentioned, and then applies for citizenship under DACA, there is no way to prove that haven't been here for 10 years or 10 minutes. One has to wonder if that is the reason some of these parents are bringing their children with them like the two who have passed away, and how may have entered and didn't get caught or sick.
AND THAT'S THE VIEW FROM THE DITCH BANK
