Why aren't corporations contributing money to help immigrant minors?

August 2, 2014

Corporations have plenty of money for everything except the world's future?

Of course, if corporations do contribute money for the health and safety of runaways, those corporations must not use that situation as an opportunity to promote the conglomerate's agenda.

It seems to me that minors who end up around authorities should be considered accessible for improvement, and that this should be true no matter which authorities of which country are part of the situation.  Isn't the immigration crisis an opportunity for a lot of things?

--health screening

--dental screening, including getting dental records

--academic and other aptitude testing

--recruitment of future employees and/or building brand loyalty, for corporations that contribute funds or other resources

All information that is gathered about those minors while they are in the United States or in detention/help centers in their home countries can be transferred to their local health clinics and schools when they leave the centers.  If there are not local clinics and schools where they're from, shouldn't there be?

What are all of those minors doing while they're in the places where they're being kept now?  It never tends to be a good idea to let a bunch of kids sit around with nothing to do, especially those nearing puberty or who for whom puberty was a sign on the highway several miles ago.  There's no reason to have to send more minors back to where they're from than ran away in the first place.

If word got around that the detention/help centers are places where everyone has to wake up at 6:00 a.m., be in school at those centers for most of the day, do chores in the afternoon, then have an hour, at the most, of leisure time at night before having to be asleep early, that there's no television and almost no Internet, isn't there a chance that a lot of minors would decide not to take the trek?

The ones who did decide to emigrate, even knowing what they would have to do once they got to the centers, would probably be the nicer, smarter, more industrious type and not that difficult to help.


Copyright L. Kochman, August 2, 2014 @ 8:37 a.m.