The government under President Donald Trump has begun to steer things into the right direction for the citizens of the United States of America. The President won a hard fought campaign that appealed to Americans concerns about the country and vowed to wholly represent the people of the United States as he directs those under his command.

Although the government leaves much to be desired in terms of carrying out the agenda of the President, things look like they are finally moving in the right direction. As of last night, an Obama-era State Department policy has been terminated that allowed unaccompanied minors from Central America to take refugee status in the United States.

The original policy was an unwritten law the Obama team managed to slip under the noses through the refugee loophole that has been affecting the entire world. They originally claimed that they wanted the children from dangerous Central American countries to be able to go straight to the United States rather than the dangerous road the journey requires to cross illegally. However, the program was filled with faults from the beginning as some of the qualifications made little to no sense.

Firstly, the children had to prove that they were being persecuted for something other than criminal or personal reasons. This can be extremely difficult as it is hard to explain how a socio-economic level in their nations has resulted in their very existence seems to be persecution from disease, starvation, corruption, or worse. Unfortunately, the refugee status laws do not excuse financially troubled people just because they are poor, it just simply would not be fair to everyone else.

Secondly, the program required that a parent of the child seeking refugee status had to prove they were a US resident, a task seemingly impossible for an endangered orphan or even a child with parents to obtain. This meant that a parent had to be able to prove they were living in the US and were US citizens, thus leading back to a strange loophole that makes the policy entirely defunct to begin with.

Refugee status is a hard thing to prove internationally but can be extremely beneficial if the program were to become manipulated. Being a refugee often means that one needs to require that their homeland is either gone, occupied, or seeking their death for political reasons.

These are not the easiest things to prove as many in the world are born in nations that do not recognize them and therefore lead to massive problems. This is the case of the Rohingya in Myanmar as they claim that the land they reside on is theirs and yet the government says otherwise.

It seems that many in the world are simply trying to exploit their status and the generosity of others when they claim to be refugees. There needs to be some sort of international precedent set that states explicitly what the status of refugee means and that being poor does not qualify for it.

There is no reason in the world why a nation should use a poor minority’s status to exploit other nations into either accepting them blindly or letting them become porous across borders simply because there are too many.

It is setting a dangerous precedent that allows nations to just invade one another so long as those at the front are just women and children.

It is a good thing Trump’s State Department worked to terminate this obsolete program as many who applied were not even qualified. The US tax payer had to pay to go through 13,000 applications to let just 1,500 in the country.

Although the whereabouts and current living conditions for the 1,500 is not wholly known, it seems like far too few a number as the program’s own rules limit so many.

Refugee programs around the globe should be monitored much more closely as these are areas where exploitation and corruption happen at the highest levels. Bribery and kickbacks lead to favors for those with access to the program and it could be a danger to national security if corrupted officials or the policies of Democrats allow dangerous people into the nation. This is not an attempt to keep people out but America has a standard that many before were able to overcome. It is just a matter of applying and working hard, not lying and cutting the line.