If it acts like a drug dealer, talks like a drug dealer and is on the corner selling drugs, it is an local, unlicensed pharmaceutical sales representative. This is the same logic Unpacking Ideas uses to identify “undocumented immigrants.” The author’s post further asserts that the “undocumented immigrant” lives a “total legal” life in the US.

First, get the nomenclature correct. The proper term is illegal alien because the person is in the US against our immigration laws and became a criminal with the first step across our US borders. To nip the name-calling in the bud, illegal is not a race.

What about the children? This is a common argument used to justify everything from no texting while driving to telling companies how to formulate their products. Children are the responsibility of their parents, not the government. Period.

Parents who break another country’s laws subject themselves and their children to the consequences of the illegal behavior. As a result, immigration enforcement does not split families, breaking the immigration laws does.

So, to answer the author’s question, “Who are these kids?” They are children of parents who ignore the precarious position they place themselves and their children in when they cross the borders illegally.