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American Foreign Policy Created the crowds seeking asylum at our borders


Support for oligarchs, and the War on Drugs
have impoverished millions and destabilized Latin America.

Central American migrants arrive inside a truck to Agua Caliente, Honduras, on December 22, 2016. (Reuters / Jorge Cabrera)

https://www.thenation.com/article/how-us-foreign-policy-helped-create-the-immigration-crisis/

“For at least 150 years, the United States has intervened with arms, political pressure,
and foreign aid in order to protect the business and military elites of these countries
who have prospered by impoverishing their people.

But immigration from the region remained modest until the 1980s, when the US government and its  collaborators at the IMF and World Bank began imposing policies on the region that favored large multinational corporations, undercutting the small farms and businesses that had supported the working poor.

We have trapped Latin American migrants between a foreign policy that drives them from home and a domestic policy that drives them back. A humane deal concerning the fate of the Dreamers, although unlikely, would be welcome. But the fundamental conflicts that poison our politics over this issue will remain. If we are ever finally going to resolve how we deal with them here we need to change what we are doing to them there.”

Jeff Faux was founder and is now distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute.

Why are asylum seekers coming from Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras,
El-Salvador and Guatemala?  Perhaps the chickens are coming home to roost!

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“Since Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 declared the U.S.’s right to exercise an “international police power” in Latin America, the U.S. has cut deep wounds throughout the region, leaving scars that will last for generations to come.”

 

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“…Liberal rhetoric of inclusion and common humanity is insufficient: we must also acknowledge the role that a century of U.S.-backed military coups, corporate plundering, Political cartoon And After All, The Philippines are Only the Stepping-Stone to China.and neoliberal sapping of resources has played in the poverty, instability, and violence that now drives people from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras toward Mexico and the United States. For decades, U.S. policies of military intervention and economic aggression have undermined democracy and stability in the region, creating vacuums of power in which drug cartels and paramilitary alliances have risen. In the past fifteen years alone, CAFTA-DR — a free trade agreement between the U.S. and five Central American countries as well as the Dominican Republic — has restructured the region’s economy and guaranteed economic dependence on the United States through massive trade imbalances and the influx of American agricultural and industrial goods that weaken domestic industries. Yet there are few connections being drawn between the weakening of Central American rural agricultural economies at the hands of CAFTA and the rise in migration from the

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region in the years since. In general, the U.S. takes no responsibility for the conditions that drive Central American migrants to the border.”

“…It’s time to insist that accepting Central American refugees is not just a matter of morality or American benevolence. Indeed, it might be better described as a matter of reparations.”

https://revolutionresource.org/2018/06/11/no-to-neo-fascism-at-the-u-s-border/

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! ”


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