I would agree with Vestralux that it is more of a refugee crisis. It appears one we helped to create. This situation needs the best minds working to come up with solutions and options. Wish we have them in office. We can e so much more...
So true. We break countries, create refugee crises, then refuse to take in the refugees. We don't own the world, and we need leaders who recognize that.
Here is a different immigration story.
Hassan al- Kontar, a Syrian man who spent nearly seven months living in a Malaysian airport has been removed and placed in police custody October 1st. Nobody has heard from him since. He had been regularly updating social media on his plight while at the airport. He's been in exile of Syria since 2011, because he refuses to join the Syrian military and could face potential arrest in Syria if returned.
I wonder where he is now and if he is safe?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45267414
In case people don't have time to read a whole book on the subject, Here's an article (How American Policy in Honduras Created the Refugee Crisis by Ed Brayton, June 2018. ) that lays out where the blame for the current refugee crisis squarely lies. I don't know the author, but I know that what he is saying is correct, that our country has prevented Honduras and other Central American countries from having healthy, economically strong economies and stable governments by destabilizing those countries' governments and propping up American-controlled leaders who favor American companies and oligarchs. (BTW,This is what Russia is trying to do to the U.S. right now. It's a trick we've been doing to other countries for 120 years.)
If everyone in the U.S. understood the truth of the Central American refugees, we would not only let them all in, but we'd pay them recompense to make up for what we did to them.
Trump pulled out of the International Coffee Agreement this summer. That will hurt the coffee growers by destabilizing prices. Not sure where he is going with that decision, but if people can no longer afford their coffee, it will get ugly. That might even turn Republicans against him.?
Just wanted to add to what others have said here that not only has direct American policy and covert action over the long-term harmed or directly toppled Central and South American governments, and either impinged their economic development or directly stunted it, but in the last several decades, the U.S. has directly supported the rise of cartel power through a clear and transactional relationship:
Annually, we buy multiple billions of dollars in their product and we sell them firearms and other munitions which the cartels use not just to protect their trade, but to dominate and terrorize their nations—including the infiltration and overthrow of police and local military forces.
This is all possible due to the virtual non-existence of American gun regulations (gun laws are stricter in Mexico than in the U.S.) and the vested power of the NRA within the GOP.
The "gun show loophole" and other tactics have made it feasible for Americans to remain within the law while shipping large quantities of weapons and ammunition over the border for profit. There's a great deal of expense and scrutiny paid to examining who and what is coming over the border into the U.S., but far less scrutiny is given to what is moving in the other direction.
Call me a cynic, but I image the upper echelon of the favored cartel of the year (led by a person who lives like a crown prince in any country) might be considered something of an unnamed investor interest for the NRA's stockholders.
Yes, gun makers are making serious coin south of the border. Another thing that blew my mind was on Real Time with Bill Maher a couple months ago. Adam Conover from the show Adam Ruins Everything was a guest. He said that avocados from Mexico are financing the cartels.
Well this is unbelievable.
Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins,took immigration enforcement into his own hands, lurking in the bushes along the US southern border to “foil” an attempt by migrants to enter the country.
“We laid in the bushes in wait and we busted one of those smuggling operations,” Jenkins said in the Tuesday segment.
“We’ve been hiding in the bushes waiting to witness one of these crossings. Let’s go – they’re coming right now,” he said. “You can see they’ve come in, they’ve got a family on a raft.”
Yes, he did.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/oct/24/fox-news-reporter-stops-migrant-family-cross-us-border
Well, this happened.
Griff Jenkins, a Fox News reporter, took immigration enforcement into his own hands, lurking in the bushes along the US southern border to “foil” an attempt by migrants to enter the country.
“We laid in the bushes in wait and we busted one of those smuggling operations,” Jenkins said in the Tuesday segment.
“We’ve been hiding in the bushes waiting to witness one of these crossings. Let’s go – they’re coming right now,” he said. “You can see they’ve come in, they’ve got a family on a raft.
Yes, he did.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/oct/24/fox-news-reporter-stops-migrant-family-cross-us-border
As thousands of migrants make their way north toward the United States, President Trump has threatened to end federal aid going to their home countries.
Together, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador received from the United States about $480 million in the last fiscal year for which complete data is available. The largest portion of that money (about 16 percent) went toward agricultural development.
But also high on the list was spending on more humanitarian-geared programs: Basic nutrition, civilian peace-building, security needs and legal development funds made up more than a quarter of the total aid.