Everything else has failed

The US has had absolutely no success in preventing illegal migrants from entering its southern borders, so now the draconian measure of separating children from their parents -- regardless of age -- has been adopted.  Maybe it will actually work?  Maybe people will stop trying it if they know they will lose their children. 

By charging all entrants as criminals, the law allows officials to take the children.  Actually, it requires the state to take them in criminal cases, so that's how they're doing it.  Here in Canada, we're doing the opposite.  We're encouraging illegal migrants to cross into Canada, effectively jumping the queue and making it longer for those following the rules and obeying the law.  Do you think we could get our educated, employable Scottish nephew into Canada a few years ago?  Not a chance.  Same for B's elderly mother.  She had to die alone in a nursing home in England while all we could do was wait for the call.  At least we have her ashes -- those we were allowed to import -- and she is with my parents and brother in Beechwood Cemetery, where B and I will eventually be planted. 

Thank you Justin Trudeau for being such an irresponsible dope.  Nigerians and Haitians are flying into the US -- designer luggage and all -- and simply strolling across unmanned border points right into waiting tents, free medical care and food.  The trick here is that the regulation that would force them to be turned away only applies at legal crossing points, not through fields and back lanes.   

It's outrageous and the government has no plan to do anything about it.  Duh!

Europe also has its own horrendous migrant problems.  Is the entire continent of Africa simply emptying out?  (See "Africa, a stupid continent" 17-11-2017.)  Seems like it, as hundreds of thousands of illegals flee name-any-country.  Frankly, I would not want to live anywhere in Africa, because every country is a warring, poverty-ridden dictatorship, but there has to be some way to stop this chaos.  There is, but it would not be pretty.

The G7 did nothing about any of this.  It cost $700 million and accomplished zip.  The incompetence and ineptitude of world leaders is breathtaking.