St. Maarten Private Eye

Children are not responsible for their status, and as I understand it, the UN has been pushing for preference to use 'undocumented' instead of 'illegal'. I absolutely agree the immigration system has to be fixed, but you and I and everyone else has been hearing they are doing this for year after year after year. By the way, I have not suggested another Grace Period.

While a child is in this country, illegally or legally, our govt has the responsibility to ensure their rights and protection. If they continue to be incompetent in their job in regards to immigration, then they should be the ones paying the consequences. To say that if we had compulsory education then illegals would flock here is a bit of a stretch I think, they already flock here without it. Are they now flocking to Curacao instead, or other islands that have CE?

Again, punishing children for the failures of their parents and governments is in my view immoral, call my opinion romantic if you like. The idea of a perfect World is romantic, and a pipe dream, it will never happen, but that should not keep us from trying to move in that direction.

As I have already said, our own schools are overcrowded, so building new classrooms and hiring more teachers would in the end benefit our children, particularly when the immigration system gets fixed. Meanwhile, those illegal children who are already here would be off our streets and given as normal a life as possible. It is not their fault, they should not be punished for adults failures.

But this is my opinion, as I say, I agree that Imm. needs to be fixed. I just disagree with punishing and neglecting those who are most vulnerable.

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