The Kids Story

 Out in California....the state Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) sent out a letter and basically asked folks who were on the foster parents listing....if they'd consider taking in 'unaccompanied Central American kids'.....who were recent 'cross-the-border-kids'.

The number asked here....one to twenty-six kids.

I sat and paused over the story.

Generally, people who were doing the foster parent thing....were fairly enthusiastic Christian-types, who felt they were doing a good deed and being compensated for their action.

The general problem here, if you sat and thought about it.....foster parents generally were doing something for a limited period of time.  In this case, it really does look like you'd be talking about three years minimum....and maybe on up to seven to ten years. In some of these cases....I've noticed the border patrol folks talking about kids being six and seven years old.   

A mess with no logical or sensible outcome?  That's the chief issue I'd see.  Maybe across the US.....you might find a couple of thousand 'couples who'd take a kid or two.  But if this got up into the 80,000 range (just for 2021) for unaccompanied kids? 

The only sensible 'fix' here is to round up the political figures of Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador, etc.....to write up a 'return-the-kids' script, and pay the countries $5k (for each kid) to take back 'their kids'.  Getting the Biden team to admit they screwed-up?  That probably has to happen as well.