Put them on an old Navy boat and sail them down to guatemala area. Price = less 500k.

The children need to be with their Mothers and Fathers back home. This is insane to think of keeping them here.

NOtice how obama says he wants 4 billion, where do you think he will get that type of money? Yes, from the already poor people with less that are already here in the US. As well as all the other social nets that are here for the US citizens.

Send them as well as the 11+ billion that are already here illegally back. Nothing is wrong with our immigration system, only thing wrong is that the govt. does not enforce it.

We have had enough.

Until such time as we have fully taken care of citizens and legal residents, there is no reason to spend money or other resources on these people.

This is something for involvement by Catholic Church and governments in Mexico and the Central American countries where these kids come from. Church and their government officers should meet with the parents and families of these kids and take care of the kids, their families and prevent them from crossing over into USA. It's not right for kids from broken families arriving here and shouldn't be the responsibility for USA. They will dilute the USA population with undocumented non-citizens needing care.

Thanks Mountain View leaders for your compassion and vision. The next Steve Jobs is probably in that collection of children. Sage

Deport them. they came here ignoring our laws and as such we have no responsibility for them. If they managed to come here from thousands of miles away they are perfectly capable of making it back home. We cannot allow people disenchanted with their own country to come here and ignore our laws.
They can go home and fix their own country. Close the border, deport ALL illegals period.
All I can say is if these people want to Sponsor these illegal children make them completely responsible for them. If they miss a deportation hearing or the illegal comes up missing the Sponsor goes to jail.

These kids are a direct result of our insipid war on drugs. We refuse to take responsibility for our drug use so we force other countries to control the supply via death squads. That raises prices--and thus profits and violence to protect the supply lines.

This funds the cartels and fuels the violence used to build gangs much like franchises for a fast food chain, but with guns.

The solution--decriminalization of use, programs for abusers, and control/taxation of sale--is fought by alcohol producers and groups who feel use is morally wrong. However, they don't take the ramifications of prohibition into account.

Alcohol prohibition built up organized crime here, and drug prohibition is doing the same in the US and Latin and South America.

The solution is the same: decriminalize and deal with the health issues rationally. Not only is this the humane choice, but it solves many seemingly-unrelated problems to boot.

Sorry Daniel, but I call BS on this story.

You would have us believe that unaccompanied children traveled great distances from Central America through Mexico which ironically is openly hostile and violent towards illegal immigrants then over open desert into the US. Do you really believe that?

The more likely story is that parents paid smugglers to bring the children into the US knowing that unlike adults they would not be deported.

They need to be sent back. This county needs to take care of its own first. Those who are here legally here. Spending money on them is nonsense. That money can be used in so many ways including public schools.

To all you naive and mindless liberals that actually believe the United States should be the benevolent father to the needy of the world, well welcome to what is reality, not the fantasy that you have conjured up in your uneducated minds. First these minors are not just "children," they included individuals right up to the age of eighteen, and many of the teens are tattooed with gang symbols. And once put up in people's home just how much time would it take for them to be on their way contributing to crime, gangs, and burdening our system with disease and soaking our system with our free medical and other services. In your humanitarian idealism you will do nothing but seed the eventual destruction of the society and way of living you enjoy now. Remember it is only the people with a political agenda that keep calling these people "children." And to those that still believe that, will how about Nancy Polosi, Feinstein, and other millionaire government employees open their homes to these defenseless and needy "children."

Where is the outrage at the irresponsible parents who abandoned their kids to make a long perilous journey? Why don't those parents take care of their own kids instead of wasting Santa Clara county tax money?

With the comments from Dennis and something called "titlar," it's safe to say that this discussion thread has jumped the shark.

Which is sad, since there is room for an actual debate on this issue. Just not from types like that.

Mountain View city should not reward law breaker families with tax money of its citizens. These kids are the responsibility of their families and should be returned to where they lived.

David Harkness is the only one who has a handle on this.

The rest of you, form your opinions after you do the research as to what is happening here.

This is not parents abandoning their children. It is them saving their children from being murdered by the drug cartels which we created with our drug laws. The children are forced to serve as drug mules for these gangs and are then are murdered. If they refuse, they are murdered first thing. If their parents try to hide them or protect them in any way, they are murdered.

1. Help these kids while they are here for now.

2. Abolish our drug laws and replace them with those like Europe's where doctors' prescriptions allows purchase of pure, clean drugs, with no one killing or stealing because of drugs. A trillion dollar, forty year war on drugs has totally failed and created this mess. The USA needs to end this war immediately, and when these drug cartels have fallen apart, then:

3. Send these children back home to their loving parents and their homes in their country that they were forced to leave because of us.