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A day before meeting with President Obama at the White House to discuss the border crisis, the presidents of Honduras and Guatemala blamed the wave of unaccompanied children inundating the U.S. on American foreign policy and on gridlock in Congress over immigration reform.Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said ambiguity in Washington’s immigration debate has helped human smugglers, called “coyotes,” convince Central Americans that they can stay in the U.S. if they make the long, illegal journey.
Read more: Presidents of Honduras, Guatemala blame U.S. for border children crisis - Washington Times
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What a couple of Idiots....How about they get control of their own countries, and realize that people are fleeing their socialist countries for freedom...We, can't help them...Send the kids back.
What a couple of Idiots....How about they get control of their own countries, and realize that people are fleeing their socialist countries for freedom...We, can't help them...Send the kids back.
Mr. Perez said U.S. efforts to combat drug gangs in Colombia and Mexico are pushing organized crime into Central America. “What has been good for Colombia and Mexico has been bad for us,” he said.
Mr. Hernandez said the drug trade — “the monster” — thrives off of Americans’ appetite for illegal drugs. “That monster has one foot in Central America and one foot in the U.S.,” he said.
The Obama administration also has blamed violence and drug gangs in Central America for forcing families and children to flee to the U.S.
In fairness, they said the US "SHARES" blame. They recognized that they need to do more with their limited abilities and pointed out that the US's successful campaigners in Columbia and Mexico have pushed gangs and drug lords into their countries.
Do you think we should increase aid to Central America? I'm torn because we already do give them alot and it's like we keep helping and helping all these countries and nothing really gets accomplished and our own country is failing in the meanwhile. We do share and we do help out yet when do they help us?
Well first, I was directing my comment to j, and I should have quoted him, sorry that it looks like I was responding to you. You make a valid point however. No I don't think we need to throw more money. However, the ME and Eastern Europe have admittedly had my attention lately, and I'm not sure of recent developments in Central America and whether we've been truly trying to help, for those people's benefit, or whether its been more US help that's aimed at advancing "US interests" as we've seen so often there for a century now.
I didn't think it was directed at me, just thought you made some good points and wanted to explore those a little more.
What a couple of Idiots....How about they get control of their own countries, and realize that people are fleeing their socialist countries for freedom...We, can't help them...Send the kids back.
I say it's Putin's fault.
One thing is also true that Mexican and Central Americans will always be correct about when they point it out. US demand for drugs promotes the lucrative business, just sayin.
No! It was Bush!
True.
However, it would seem to me, the reality is that the leaders of these countries want their people to leave. It solves some population problems related to infrastructure and support, places the entire burden of caring for the most needy of their populations on the backs of US Taxpayers, and the remittances extracted from the exploitation of the US is a major source of revenue.
And that's also true. But then this would be moot as soon as Americans kick their drug addiction!
You could be on to something there.
Unintended consequences: 2008 anti-trafficking law contributes to border crisis
2008 anti-trafficking law contributes to border crisis - CNN.com
No! It was Bush!
You could be on to something there.
Unintended consequences: 2008 anti-trafficking law contributes to border crisis
2008 anti-trafficking law contributes to border crisis - CNN.com
What a couple of Idiots....How about they get control of their own countries, and realize that people are fleeing their socialist countries for freedom...We, can't help them...Send the kids back.
I blame Nixon!
No! It was Bush!
I don't think it's the law itself, but the current application of the law that is a problem. All the people have to do is follow instructions and say the right words, and they can be handed keys to the kingdom. If a "child" is from Mexico, just tell the border patrol they are from one of the four countries covered in the law. If a Mother and child are at the border, separate and meet up later. The child is protected by this law, and the Mother can claim asylum and refugee status.
It's all part of the plan in this election year.
Well, they're half right. If not for the regime pushing amnesty, this might not be happening.
Not just this election year, the anchor (or jackpot) baby goes back to the 1965 immigration act. Decades upon decades of open borders have allowed how many illegal immigrants into America? 5, 10, 15, 20. We have a systemic problem and its mainly because big business isn't interested in secure borders, and with both parties pandering to big business, we'll see more of the same. The handwringing and finger pointing serves as a good distraction from that.
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