Father Alvarado and little brother in El Salvador and death toll to go north . Alvarado : Scared children at school show immigration is a humanitarian crisis . He says : What forces are pushing people north ? President Barack Obama , who seems to have made it his mission to appease them in his first six years , would now do better to ignore them completely than to continue to step on the gas of his deportation apparatus . What hand does America play ? Barriers , soldiers not the answer , he says ; we must address underlying problems .
Father Alvarado and little brother in El Salvador and death toll to go north . Alvarado : Scared children at school show immigration is a humanitarian crisis . He says : What forces are pushing people north ? What hand does America play ? Barriers , soldiers not the answer , he says ; we must address underlying problems .