La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for July 23, 2014

This seems to be a rather harsh statement. Perhaps the people of Murrieta realize what all needs to happen to take care of these illegal Central American children. There’s food, shelter, clothing, medical and emotional care to begin with. All of this costs $$$ which I’ll bet the people of Murrieta just don’t have. Why should They take in children they have no way of supporting?!About these two guys reading the newspaper (who does That anyway these days!)…why don’t They jump up and volunteer to help both with time and money?! Where is the Mexican-American community in all of this? What about La Raza? I don’t see President Obama Doing anything about the children…and Why not?! I also wonder if the embassies of the Central-American countries from where these children came from are hiding their heads? All of this takes $$$, people. Just Where Is It Going To Come From?! All donations accepted…starting with these two guys sitting on the bench; and, of course, LA… ;)

Aaaand indie yet again fails to think. First point of fact: these kids aren’t coming from Nicaragua, which doesn’t have the gang problems that El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. And what do those three countries have in common? They sent a whole lot of refugees to the US because of US-sponsored terror regimes in each one. Absent decent social support in the US, many of the children of these refugees ended up forming gangs for self-protection, and these gangs eventually morphed into violent drug gangs. The US started deporting these gang members wholesale to their countries of origin, where, absent strong state institutions (no thanks to US intervention) they proliferated and became even more brutal. And so, directly because of a series of US actions, we now have this wave of refugee children, some of whom we’re literally storing in kennels while keeping them detained. I’d say that’s reason enough for it to be left to us, which it isn’t exclusively anyway. Neighboring Central American countries such as Costa Rica are also dealing with this same crisis of refugee children landing on their doorstep. As is Mexico, despite the violence there. Why don’t you ever actually try to learn anything before you start typing? Maybe you’ve never heard of this thing called Google? And what a morally bankrupt response “it’s not my responsibility” is, anyway. Once again I refer you to the MS St. Louis_. It’s even got a convenient entry in Wikipedia. Which you probably don’t know about, since anything smacking of research seems to be outside your brainspace..As you no doubt know, or at least has been told to you many times, Lalo is Mexican-_American, not Mexican. Let’s assume your own ancestry is Norwegian, or Irish, or Ethiopian, and you’re even proud of it. What the hell does what you say have to do with that country? Do you expect a fourth-generation Chinese American who writes and talks about their experiences as a Chinese American to be preoccupied with the policies of the People’s Republic of China? If you do, here’s your “I’m a racist” sign. In fact, take it already, because that’s what you’re doing with Alcaraz..But let’s take Mexico as a possible landing place for these kids. You don’t read much about the rampant, brutal gang violence happening there, do you? The kind of thing the kids from Central America are fleeing in the first place? And as you mention, many of these kids have relatives (aunts, uncles, etc.) in the US. Wouldn’t you rather send your kids to stay with relatives than to wander the streets alone somewhere as their final landing-spot? So yeah, they’re sending their kids where they think their kids will have support..As for parents who may have been forced to leave their children behind to actually get livable work elsewhere, you don’t get out much, do you? Parents all over the world (and yes, right here in the good ol’ US of A) do this all the time. Most often, one parent will stay behind with the children. Or if need be they leave them with other relatives. Next time an immigrant Pilipina nurse takes your blood pressure, ask her if she has kids back home. Good chance she does. Casting aspersions on migrating parents is the height of insensitivity and ignorance, which is no less than I’d expect from you..And do you have such a short attention span that you need a brand-new entertainment every time you turn around? This crisis remains in the news, particularly because right-wing politicians are keeping it in the news by calling out the National Guard and other over-the-top theatrics. And so it remains in La Cucaracha, because its creator happens to think it’s important. You think something else is important? Write something about it. Put it out there. Draw something about it. Make a movie. But I think we all know what you find important, and it keeps you coming back here, day after day, to do what might loosely be termed as some writing..As to your tired complaints about the strip itself, well, all I’ll say is you really seem to like your horse meat tender.

This link is particularly for ORMouse and anyone else who might like to learn some facts about the child refugee crisis: http://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5813406/explain-child-migrant-crisis-central-america-unaccompanied-children-immigrants-daca

Thankis agrestic for the link to vox.com and the articles that talk in depth about who are these kids, why are they coming, what happens to them, how many might be allowed to stay. I haven’t read all the short articals, but there is a graph that shows that most are being sent away.Don’t know if it tells what happens to the kids who are turned away. I know that a bunch of people come to this site in order to put down the artist, gripe about

Re: “hell holes”…what about the “hell holes” in our Own country?!

What about Who? I have a difficult time replying to posts that aren’t as clear as they could be…

If being a “KIA” (too lazy to spell it out, indie? Or incapable of it?) means actually doing a small amount of research of facts and not simply typing out the first thing my lizard-brain tells me to, then I’ll own it. It’s a whole lot better than your ignorant bomb-throwing in your never-ending futile quest to end a comic strip. I’m waiting for you to share with us a substantive thought that might prove something’s actually budded on top of that spinal cord of yours.