Michael,

I regret the crimes committed against the Indians of the Americas, we studied it in our homeschooling through the end of the nineteenth century. I am the namesake of a Cynthia Ann Parker kidnapped by Indians in the nineteenth century. When she was finally rescued as an adult, she preferred living with the Indians. All I can say is that it was many years ago, centuries even, and there's nothing we can do to change it now. It's also true that most of the Indian tribes committed brutal acts against other Indians, slavery, torture, human sacrifice, conquest, war, rape, murder, on and on. We visited several Aztec sites in June, also Teotihuacán, where human sacrifice figured prominently. I'm reading a book about the Cahokia mounds near St. Louis now, and, again, terrible acts of violence, rape, murder, and so on, against other Indians. And then there are the Maya (I started to watch Apocalypto, but really just couldn't watch it) and the Inca, and related groups. Child sacrifice. That shocks me so much that I'll have to stop there. Still happening now in some places. You read Daniel's article.

At this time I think we have to say that our current societies are a fait accompli, and that those of us living in them have the rights of indigenous people, having been born and raised here, many of us with centuries of ancestors having done the same. But we must be careful to preserve what we have, the heritage of Christianity and the Enlightenment, which is really unique in all the history of the world, not at all automatic, not at all the natural trend of all people to develop. I admire generosity and kindness, but we have to be careful not to be so generous that we are swamped with poverty and violence which will take us down too. We could lose this heritage.

Hera,

The Salvadoran constitution says that any child born abroad to a Salvadoran citizen has Salvadoran citizenship. Paperwork is required to get acknowledgment of that. I translate a lot of Mexican birth certificates, and the first time was surprised at the line which said Child presented Alive __ Dead __? I wondered if they wanted the mother __ father __ both ___ other party __ to physically bring in the newborn, or his dead body if that were the case, and apparently it is. That's probably the case for many Latin American countries.

It looks as though there are 200,000 Salvadorans who will lose their temporary residence status under this new enforcement of an old law. Originally it was because of a severe earthquake in 2001, but the damage from that has largely been repaired. Honduras is expected to be next. The Mara Salvatrucha violence is not part of the reasoning for their temporary residence, and I don't think it would be a good thing to make coming from a country with endemic violence grounds for permanent residence here. I support refugee camps where needed, and giving advice where asked for as to how to improve unstable or dangerous conditions in any country, not that I think it would do much good.

In the article, Blanca says that she has three teen-aged sons, two typical and one disabled. She thinks that the autistic one would lose the speech and occupational therapy he receives at school which promises to make him independent as an adult. I don't think they are going to do that, as they rarely or never do any good at all. They have done nothing at all for my autistic daughter. I don't think the boy is going to be better off here than there.

I think Trump's policy is a valid one, but I don't care if a special exception is made in Blanca's case. If they let her stay on humanitarian grounds, that would be fine, but it's also important to consider how many such cases you can accept without severely damaging the safety and material well-being of our citizens. And the huge presence of MS-13 here now is a big problem which has resulted in the deaths of many Americans.

Sorry, I meant El Salvador, not Honduras.

And I don't think it's as simple as saying that humanity demands that the US (etc.) accept as permanent residents everyone who thinks they would benefit from it. As Daniel Greenfield pointed out in the article I linked, generosity in immigration policy often leads to extremely serious, negative consequences for the indigenous population, in his article the horrendous murder of many minor children and adolescents.

When justice comes for our children severely damaged by vaccines, in the first chapter of Handley's book he estimates that it will take (I've forgotten how many) trillions of taxpayer dollars. I have to admit that I have no conception of how much a trillion is, can hardly fathom a billion. Even if we bankrupt all the pharma companies to get a little more money to distribute, the taxpayer is still going to see his standard of living plunge as a result. But I am in favor of that, that's what happens when you insist on see no evil, hear no evil, for decades.

What I'm saying is that there are limits, and we are running up against them now. If you were to ask me if I would be willing for the sake of generosity to live on half of what we live on now, to share with the less privileged, the disabled, from every developing society in the world, but at the cost of great deprivation for ourselves, I would have to say no, I wouldn't. Most people wouldn't. And I also don't want to see our society become any more violent than it is now, and would really prefer to move in the opposite direction, toward more stability and less violence.

I think the traditional paradigm is changing. I'm waiting to see how the current paradigm change in eastern Europe, Austria, and Italy is going to work out, but I think it's going to become an avalanche.

Hi Cia, actually, not quite, He has the right to apply for it through his mother. Kind of like people can have the right to apply for social security. Doesn't mean they already have it, or are even certain to get it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ElSalvador/comments/3bq8bc/son_of_salvadoran_immigrant_eligible_for_dual/

This discussion talks about how the paperwork has to be in order for El Salvador citizenship, or the application is denied.

As it stands though, an American citizen is being effectively pushed out of his country and has to rely on hoping another country will grant him citizenship, if he uses services needed for his disability.
Green Card legal immigrants with American children cannot have their disabled children get benefits like medicaid etc if they are still part of their household..That means that a disabled American adult with a legal foreign parent is not entitled to receive what every other American can receive, without risking potentially having their parent forced to leave the country.

Cia, I am very sorry for all who have been killed by immigrant violence here, including the little girl, and also for the disabled American citizen, being forced to leave his country, and to go to a country where he may or may not even be able to become a citizen. America is sending an American boy to a country where he may never become a citizen. If El Salvador treats foreigners ( which is what he is) the same as America does, why would they provide him with any health care? He is not a citizen of theirs.

Maybe he can get citizenship through his mother, though if the paperwork is not in order, he may never get El Salvador citizenship. He is no less American than you , your daughter, or any other American, and should be no less entitled to benefits than anyone else,, regardless of the nationality of his mother. The choices right now seem to be abandoning him in the US, or taking him to a foreign country where his mother says their lives are at risk.
It almost seems like a way to force American disabled children to go to other countries, since any child with a green card parent, can have their parent forced out of the country if the American child gets any benefits.

This is the article I referred to. I think it's very important for everyone to be aware of and grieve for these children as well.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270496/illegal-aliens-fatally-separate-american-parents-daniel-greenfield

With the new rules under discussion, as it is being discussed right now, a legal green card holder, married to an American, with American children, can not allow their American children to get any benefits, such as medicaid D. If the American family member ( for example , an American disabled child, or American disabled adult) still lives with the family, they count as a member of the household, and the family has the choice between getting benefits the American is entitled to,or their completely legal, green card holding, family member potentially will be kicked out of the country,

Benedetta: The gangs, such as MS, which are so deadly in El Salvador, were born in Los Angeles. The great wave of deportations in the 80's sent them and their thuggery back to El Salvador. The wars we waged against the people of both El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 80's simply added to their suffering. Little Alfonso is a victim of Washington stupidity, incompetence, arrogance, and malfeasance.