Thousands of frightened immigrant children are languishing in hot, overcrowded holding cells along the Southern border.

Meanwhile, members of the “do nothing” Congress embarked on a five-week vacation last Friday.

As the lawmakers flew off on junkets, made campaign plans and thought of new ways to tell their constituents how much they care, thousands of unaccompanied minors from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador continued to suffer.

We blame House Republicans for this fiasco.

The GOP-controlled House was presented a grand opportunity to help these immigrant children and hold up American values.

Instead, they left without working with the Senate to provide the desperately needed funding that President Obama sought to ensure these refugees are cared for and allowed to present their case for asylum.

Some Republicans made it clear that America has no place for those escaping unbelievably horrifying conditions.

The “final solution” for the GOP: Return the children to their homeland as quickly as possible without legal recourse and keep them under the thumb of drug gangs.

Many fled after being raped, forced to sell drugs or witnessing the murder of family members.

President Obama, meanwhile, championed allocating $3.7 billion for tighter border enforcement and humanitarian efforts for the children who have trekked their way to this country.

The Democrat-controlled Senate, knowing it faced a blockade from House Republicans, threw up its hands in disgust and left town.

It makes us wonder why these young people would ever want to risk their lives to make this country their home.