People who use children to gain something personal are detestable, deplorable and despicable. Think of the parent who uses a child in a divorce proceeding – shameful; now think of the parent who straps an explosive device onto their child in order to seek revenge based on idealism, that is beyond shameful, it is twisted and criminal. Then we have the politicians who use children for political gain. There is a special place in hell for those snake charmers.

The humanitarian crisis of illegal children pouring through our southern border by the thousands is a manufactured crisis. It was manufactured by the president’s pen when he signed an executive order to implement the “Dream Act”. The action was not approved by Congress and therefore, any attempt to rectify the problem should not be approved by Congress. In other words, NO MONEY FOR THIS PROBLEM. Political actions have a long history of placing an undue burden on the American taxpayer. Currently, the government is dispersing these children to cities all over the United States when they should be returning them to their country of origin. That is the only way to stop the influx. If you think I am heartless, I can assure that I am not; but my heart bleeds red, white and blue for the people of the United States. As a country, we are most generous and we have given the benefit of the doubt to this president for too long. He is using these children as pawns in a political game. His claims of “I found out about it on the news” and “unintended consequences” are more jabberwocky while he plays on the sympathy of an unsuspecting populace. Are we really supposed to believe that the most powerful man in the free world is that dumb? His two billion dollar request will turn into four billion then eight billion. If he wants money for this crisis, let him take it from the people who received bonuses for killing our veterans. Let him take it from the agencies who have had lavish conventions/parties at the taxpayers’ expense. Let him take it from the overpaid politicians who seem to think it is their job to find another way to get more of our hard earned cash. Let him take it from the programs  rife with fraud and abuse that he promised to fix when he was running for president in 2007. Or was that a campaign promise meant to attract conservative voters?

These children are faultless, they bear no blame in this situation. The guilty parties are the politicians who are using them; their depravity has no boundaries.

Sending these children home will not make them worse off than they were. It may even have improved some of their lives because of the medical attention they received. Allowing them to stay will not guarantee a better life, only a different one in a strange place. There are also older children migrating. Some are in their teens and on the brink of adulthood, perhaps not disclosing their real age in order to qualify for entry under the guidelines. These people have been schooled in what they should say in order to be accepted once they arrive. Who gave them the right words to use?

The Republican party needs to embrace the admonition “The party of no” and add to it so that it asserts “The party of no more lies” or “The party of no more funding”. Unfortunately, the Republican party has become “The party of no more guts”.