I saw a chicken house blown over by a tornado. I mean a big one. 50,000 chickens were released. Within two days they had cannibalized half of the population. I expect by the end of two weeks, there were just a few really fat chickens left, but they would have been tasty. 

Just realized the original author of the NYT piece released a follow up piece to explain some things better. It says again. The problem is the kids arrive alone, are put into foster care and no one comes forth to sponsor them. It is still Trump’s fault, if that makes you feel better, because the families are scared to…

Wait. Did you not read the New York Times article this is based on? Not the link that goes to another gawker article that doesn’t really explain the numbers.

This. Unless you live in a blue state, you would not understand feudalism is alive and well in the US.

Bill Clinton...That’s why...They tried to make a perjury case with him and basically he did it, but they still couldn’t make it stick. 

What do you want them to do? When ICE finds kids in the middle of the desert alone with no adults around, they should just leave them be? When no one volunteers to take foster them, they should just let them go? When all of the foster homes and shelters are full due to a 5x increase in unaccompanied children and not…

If you break the law do you expect your children to be taken from your custody and moved to a tent city with no way to contact you?

How about not politicizing something to the point everyone misses the point? Everyone is so busy blaming the other side, they don’t realize these kids need help and the people commenting here could help. They are put in tents because no one came forward to sponsor them and the foster/shelters are full (it does say in…

I know you will never see this, but David you really need to update this article. First, everyone in the comments just read the title and jumped to many conclusions. They are assuming that these are kids separated from their families by the government and the only thing that needs to happen is to reunite them. They…

I know. Maybe if we actually let people know there are thousands of kids at the border in need of foster care, more people will come forward. Otherwise these kids that arrive in the US without and adult will just end up wards of the state. 

A bunch of kids looking for foster care is not exactly a concentration camp. The government ran out of space because not as many people are coming forward to sponsor these unaccompanied kids. Anyone can sponsor them. YOU could sponsor some and keep them out of the tents.

Actually, even though the article fails to mention it, people can foster these children. The government does not want to put the kids in the tents, but there are not enough volunteers to take them in. The child separation policy was shot down as soon as it went to court. It only lasted two months. These are all kids…

Did you read the article? They are not moving them to tents because all of the foster care is full. They are moving older teenagers to make room in foster care for the younger children. There has been a drop in people coming forward to take these kids in and now the system is overwhelmed. 

No they were not separated from their family. That was shot down two months after it started. The article stated that the vast majority of these are unaccompanied minors. They come to the US with no adult.

I know. It is a sad day when we find kids crossing the border without an adult and have to put them in tents because not enough people volunteer to take them in.

Actually, he is getting advice from the Obama admin.

For what, not fostering unaccompanied minors in their own homes? Because I don’t see many people here volunteering to take some of the kids in to keep them out of the tents. The government is looking for people to take them in. If no one comes forward, they become wards of the state. The number of children in custody…

What I said is in line with the quote. There is not enough foster care/sponsors for kids that cross the border unaccompanied. These are not kids separated from their parents at the border. That was shot down soon after it started and those kids are already reunited. These are kids that come across the border without…

Did you read more than the headline? This is being run by the same person Obama hired to oversee the care of immigrants, but there is not enough foster care for the 5x increase in unaccompanied minors. They only took the older teenagers who were close to being matched with a sponsor to the tents to make room for…