Treat unaccompanied minors as refugees eligible for asylum rather than undocumented immigrants

The unaccompanied minors at the border are children, fleeing violence and threat of trafficking or death in their home countries. As such these children should be treated as refugees and given opportunity for asylum here in the United States rather than deported as illegal or undocumented immigrants. This is not an immigration issue it is a humanitarian one. Follow the example of the worlds on the Statue of Liberty, the Lady in the Harbor signalling the willingness of the United States to take in those in need, and treat these children as Jewish refugees, Vietnamese refugees, and Bosnian refugees were previously treated as well as the way Cubans fleeing their country are treated today. Grant these children asylum in the United States for their own safety.