The Right-wing's newest hysteria: kids.
Dear god how can our nation survive the marauding hordes at the border? I mean, it's WORSE THAN EVER, right?
While the number of unaccompanied youth crossing the border has doubled to nearly 60,000 in the past year, the total number of undocumented immigrants has mostly declined. About 1 million people have been caught crossing the border nearly every year between 1983 until 2006, but that number has dropped to about 400,000 in 2013.
Huh. So it turns out that the number of undocumented immigrants crossing the border is down about 60 percent from the norm. And of those, a big chunk aren't even economic immigrants, but refugees from the drug wars of Central America?
Oh. Well then. Let's freak out anyway and put those refugee kids in kennels anyway, why don't we?