georgephillip
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Poor dodge. They still aren't fleeing to Cuba or Venezuela.Displaced = fled. They formed MS13. May they flay you alive one day.Carter. Typical Democrat warmonger.Salvadoran Civil War - Wikipedia
"On December 2, 1980, members of the Salvadoran National Guard were suspected to have raped and murdered four American, Catholic church women (three religious women, or nuns, and a laywoman).
"Maryknoll missionary sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline sister Dorothy Kazel, and laywoman Jean Donovan were on a Catholic relief mission providing food, shelter, transport, medical care, and burial to death squad victims.
"U.S. military aid was briefly cut off in response to the murders but would be renewed within six weeks.
"The outgoing Carter administration increased military aid to the Salvadoran armed forces to $10 million which included $5 million in rifles, ammunition, grenades and helicopters.[73]
"In justifying these arms shipments, the administration claimed that the regime had taken 'positive steps' to investigate the murder of four American nuns, but this was disputed by US Ambassador, Robert E. White, who said that he could find no evidence the junta was 'conducting a serious investigation.' [73]
"White was dismissed from the foreign service by the Reagan Administration after he had refused to participate in a coverup of the Salvadoran military's responsibility for the murders at the behest of Secretary of State Alexander Haig."
Asylum seekers fled US-supported death squad violence like this and the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero which occurred while he was delivering Mass.
When the migrants arrived in Los Angeles they were preyed upon by local gangs. MS-13 began as collective defense against US gangs. As usual the Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World blames its victims.
Good to see you support MS13, though. Maybe they'll skin you alive for your support.Maybe you live long enough to comprehend the difference between hired killers and their victims
Israel's shadowy role in Guatemala's dirty war
"Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced in the 1980s,” said Elizabeth Oglesby, an associate professor of Latin American studies at the University of Arizona.
"'People were fleeing violence and massacres and political persecution that the United States was either funding directly or at the very minimum, covering up and excusing.'
"Violence today in those countries, she said, is a directly legacy of US involvement."
The Violence Central American Migrants Are Fleeing Was Stoked by the USMay you sleep with the (red) octopus
"In the 1950s, Guatemala attempted to end exploitative labor practices and give land to Mayan Indians in the highlands.
"The move, according to now-unclassified CIA documents, threatened US interests like the United Fruit Company, which controlled a good portion of land in Guatemala.
"But instead of citing economic factors, many in the US cried 'communism,' saying the labor reforms were a threat to democracy.
"Wisconsin Senator Alexander Wiley, chair of the Foreign Relations Committee at the time, said he believed that a 'Communist octopus' had used its tentacles to control events in Guatemala.
"In 1954, the CIA helped organize a military coup to overthrow Guatemala’s democratically elected government, and continued to train the Guatemalan military well into the 70s."
Or Nicaragua, for that matter.
Obviously, asylum seekers wouldn't accomplish much if they left one country being destroyed by illegal US meddling for another, would they?
The Violence Central American Migrants Are Fleeing Was Stoked by the US
"'The war in Guatemala was really a genocide,' Oglesby said, adding that an estimated 200,000 were killed in the subsequent 36-year-long civil war, which stretched from 1960 to 1996. 'The history is important because it went so far beyond anti-communism—the purpose was to destroy people’s vision of the future. It had a terrible impact on the country, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced.'"
