georgephillip
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- Dec 27, 2009
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/opinion/children-on-the-run.html?_r=1
"Along the southern border, particularly in Texas, a rising influx of young unauthorized migrants crossing the border with their parents or, more alarmingly, alone has overwhelmed the Border Patrol and sent the federal government scurrying for a coordinated response..."
"The United Nations noted that the number of children traveling alone has doubled each year since 2011, and that 60,000 are expected to reach the United States this fiscal year. The problem, though, is not confined to this country; the report found that asylum requests by Hondurans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans seeking refuge in Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Belize has soared by 435 percent."
The violence levels in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala are not independent of US foreign policy in Central America.
In 2009 Obama looked the other way as a military coup in Honduras evicted an elected president from office and ushered in rising drug profits and the murder rates they don't exist without.
Death tolls from the 1980s in El Salvador due to US backed and trained government forces are usually placed around 70,000, and Guatemala's murder of 200,000 Mayans during the same time also depended heavily on Uncle Sam.
There is an obligation to treat these children and those who follow as refugees, but the expense for that should not be borne by all US taxpayers. Instead, those who profit the most from the sales of arms and the laundering of $600 billion a year in drug profits should be required to pay for the rehabilitation of their victims from across the borderline.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AC8XONKoGQ]Willy deVille - Across the borderline - YouTube[/ame]
"Along the southern border, particularly in Texas, a rising influx of young unauthorized migrants crossing the border with their parents or, more alarmingly, alone has overwhelmed the Border Patrol and sent the federal government scurrying for a coordinated response..."
"The United Nations noted that the number of children traveling alone has doubled each year since 2011, and that 60,000 are expected to reach the United States this fiscal year. The problem, though, is not confined to this country; the report found that asylum requests by Hondurans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans seeking refuge in Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Belize has soared by 435 percent."
The violence levels in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala are not independent of US foreign policy in Central America.
In 2009 Obama looked the other way as a military coup in Honduras evicted an elected president from office and ushered in rising drug profits and the murder rates they don't exist without.
Death tolls from the 1980s in El Salvador due to US backed and trained government forces are usually placed around 70,000, and Guatemala's murder of 200,000 Mayans during the same time also depended heavily on Uncle Sam.
There is an obligation to treat these children and those who follow as refugees, but the expense for that should not be borne by all US taxpayers. Instead, those who profit the most from the sales of arms and the laundering of $600 billion a year in drug profits should be required to pay for the rehabilitation of their victims from across the borderline.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AC8XONKoGQ]Willy deVille - Across the borderline - YouTube[/ame]
