Reagan's administration quite literally dropped boxes of arms from planes, MREs and cash to guerilla fighters that were hiding in the jungles of Honduras during the 80s in an operation that was not authorized by Congress....those would be the Contras....
how do you the assylum rate was low? do you have sources
The asylum rates were issued by the government at the time, by the INS, (what ICE used to be called.), and published in newsletters. In fairness to the INS, however, their examiners had to deal with just about all immigration cases: visas, marriages, etc. They were required to submit asylum applications to the State Department's Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and the latter issued what I believe - if I remember correctly - were called "country letters," advising the INS as the the validity of the claim. The INS officials invariably followed the State Dept.'s extremely biased lead. Some of the letters were notoriously, albeit unintentionally, hilarious in how they described conditions in El Salvador and Guatemala. They often were identical, except for the name of the asylum seeker. I saved some of these and showed them to my Canadian counterpart who dealt with asylum claims, and he couldn't believe that a government agency could issue such opinions that flew in the face of overwhelming evidence of tens of thousand of government murders in the two countries. Lawyers who represented these nationalities of asylum seekers said that a few INS examiners told them that they only paid attention to the positive ones, so bad were the State opinions. But they were the main reason for the lousy asylum approval rate for those nationalities, and the higher approval rates for people from leftist countries.
Salvadoran and Nicaraguan...it was known as NACARA and occurred far too late for many
ok great but i take it that it was a war between left and right on a continental scale and reagen was part of it, he probsably didnt want suspected left wing terrorists entering the US
Reagan needed to stay out of it and there wasn't a danger of Sandinistas entering the US nor any terrorists...here is a reality check for you..
there was a clear danger as left wings groups were rising in the 70's and reagen got involved for his ideological goals
those people with guns killing civilians are right wingers....we needed to mind our own damned business. Your hero, right winger Juan Orlando Hernandez is a cartel king pin that traffics poison into the US....but continue your love fest with how great he is because he's a right winger.
nope,
Read the link. Horrible, brutal, but they didn’t seem to be targeting those in the Church.nope,
Bojayá massacre - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
200 people killed because of left wing hatred of catholics
why did the left wing kill 119 civilians?
They weren't aiming at civilians, as your article states. But the tragedy is cynically called "collateral damage" by people who fight wars. I still don't get your overall point.
they have great taste.It had to happen. Biden sent them the welcome sign and now we are bugged by illegal aliens.
I interviewed plenty of these folks. They do express fear of returning. There are no doubt many who came for economic reasons. It's our job, based on law and treaty obligations, to sort them out. Of course this factor is naturally unmentioned if your purpose is to trash Biden.
why be mad at raegen when there is a entire other side to the conflict
I don’t understand.
Leftist government human rights abuses certainly did, as people fled Cuba and Nicaragua post revolution. Most leftist guerrilla movements had an interest in keeping people on their side - that’s where the Contras screwed up by killing folks they could have been trying to win over, tho they had tougher job winning hearts and minds since Nicaragua was never as repressive as were some of its neighbors. But there were indeed targeted assassinations by leftist groups that surely could have prompted migration, especially by upper class folks, families of high ranking military.
Where did that organization get them? Is it a coincidence they have Biden's name on them?This Snopes article says who gave them the shirts.
Did People Wear 'Biden Please Let Us In' Shirts at US-Mexico Border?
Migrants reportedly gathered at the border hoping for more lenient immigration policies under the Biden administration.www.snopes.com
You think Mexico is in South America?
Interesting question. My impression is that some South Americans (Chile/Argentina/Uruguay) in some cases Colombians, feel closer to US culture than they might to Mexican, with its indigenous bias.
i completely disagree
Uruguay was called the Switzerland of South America, so European were its ways. Buenos Aires is compared to Paris. Even in language, many South Americans recoil at Mexico’s formality, i.e., it’s consistent use of “usted” (derivation of which comes from “vuestra merced,” - “your grace,” a throwback to the quasi feudal pre-revolutionary Mexico) as opposed to the more informal “tu.” Chileans I knew would tell me, who learned Spanish in Mexico, “will you stop calling me “usted!” Bolivia and Peru are somewhat different culturally than Argentina and Chile, the latter resembling Europe, the former deeply influenced by indigenous culture. Huge numbers of Italian and Spanish descendants live in Argentina, as opposed to other Latin American countries. Even in Central America, Costa Rica is significantly different culturally than its neighbors. I read that it was due in part to the Spanish wiping out more indigenous people there than they succeeded in doing in other parts of the region, creating a less varied, more homogenous culture in their murderous wake.