[blueash]

Some posts here are filled with compassion others not so much. And of course factual errors. There were no quotas, none, zero zip for the wave of European immigrants in the late 1800's into the early 1920's. We did set quotas limiting Asian immigration beginning in 1875. The first limits on Europeans was enacted in 1921 as per Wikipedia

"In 1921, the Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924. The 1924 Act was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans, especially Jews, Italians, and Slavs, who had begun to enter the country in large numbers beginning in the 1890s. Most of the European refugees fleeing the Nazis and World War II were barred from coming to the United States"

So stop spouting lies to support your "send them back and make them wait just like my grandpappy had to" opinion. You are wrong, both factually and IMO morally. These are children escaping the worst social environments imaginable. If we have enough emergency money to send billions to the middle east we can certainly find the money and the compassion for a few tens of thousands of children.