House Bill on Illegal Immigrant Children

Open email to TX Rep. Michael McCaul:

Dear Rep. McCaul,
I have received your latest newsletter and viewed your video clip on your interview with Fox News.
Congratulations! You are absolutely on target, with respect to illegal children immigrants at our southern border.
In a previous essay, I criticized you for a Marxist philosophy on four points in your previous newsletter. I will still hold to that opinion, until such time as you make corrections on those individual items. Meanwhile, your addressing the illegal children at our southern border as a new item, is completely on target.
The House bill to return illegal immigrant children to the custody of their parents is obviously the most humane approach. Parents can provide the love and affection needed for children, even if their opportunities for advancement and physical sustenance are somewhat diminished. It is up to the foreign parents to change the conditions within their countries to provide better lives for their children, rather then dump them off as burdens to US taxpayers.
The amount of money specified by the house for the operation of returning children to their homelands seems appropriate. Conversely, the much higher Senate amount is inconsistent with the requirements. It is apparently loaded with pork. Since the majority of the Senate is freespending Democrats, that is no surprise. We all strongly look forward to a hopeful change in the Senate composition in the forthcoming November election.
However, with conditions as they are and until a possible change occurs in November, your bill will go nowhere. Harry Reid will will have the Senate pigeonhole it. That will leave the situation unchanged, in which Pres. Obama will use executive action to continue to disperse illegal immigrant children around the country, without any advice to governors and local officials.
The only advantage I can see for your bill is that it calls attention to the general public on how the situation should be handled. To capitalize on that, the House needs to propagandize its position. You have started to do that with your interview with Fox news. Good job!