Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars." If many children don't meet strict asylum criteria but face significant dangers if they return, the United States should consider allowing them to stay using humanitarian parole procedures we have employed in the past, for Cambodians and Haitians. It may be possible to transfer children and resettle them in other safe countries willing to share the burden. What is the author's purpose in this excerpt? to express an opinion about US asylum policies to prompt feelings of sympathy in the reader to suggest a suspenseful atmosphere about the asylum process to provide facts and details about Cambodian and Haitian children

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Ariel

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14 December, 21:26

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars." If many children don't meet strict asylum criteria but face significant dangers if they return, the United States should consider allowing them to stay using humanitarian parole procedures we have employed in the past, for Cambodians and Haitians. It may be possible to transfer children and resettle them in other safe countries willing to share the burden. What is the author's purpose in this excerpt? to express an opinion about US asylum policies to prompt feelings of sympathy in the reader to suggest a suspenseful atmosphere about the asylum process to provide facts and details about Cambodian and Haitian children

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Hayden Baxter · Answer 1

(A) to express an opinion about US asylum policies

Hannah Abbott · Answer 2

to express an opinion about US asylum policies

In the excerpt the author says, "If many children don't meet strict asylum criteria but face significant dangers if they return, the United States should consider allowing them to stay." The author wants the Cambodian and Haitian children to remain in safety even if they don't meet strict asylum criteria. The author doesn't necessarily want all of the children to stay in the United States, but he does want them to remain in a safe country. The author is not trying to get feelings of sympathy. This excerpt is also not suspenseful. There are no details and the Cambodian and Haitian children.