Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., says the “border is secure,” and he warns against demonizing the undocumented children arriving at the U.S. from Central America.
Source: www.cbsnews.com
Does anyone think that Central American has been manipulated in order to provide a new source of low cost labor to the U.S.?
How is it that Central American countries used to be livable but now are too dangerous to live in?
What international politics have cause this chaos?
“This humanitarian emergency requires, as a first urgent measure, these children be welcomed and protected,” Pope Francis said.
Source: thinkprogress.org
A secret UN report obtained by Vox reveals Border Patrol agents are failing to protect Mexican children.
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Mexican children are treated differently than Central American children at the border
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BY LAW, AGENTS SHOULD ASSUME CHILDREN ARE IN DANGER; IN PRACTICE, AGENTS ASSUME THEY’RE NOT
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It’s not that Central American kids need to be protected less; it’s that Mexican kids need to be protected more
Source: www.vox.com
Her name is Alysa Bobbitt. She was 5-years old and lived in Shady Cove, Oregon. On June 27, 2013, Alysa and her mom were visiting Karen Hancock in a Grants Pass apartment. In the apartment …
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Over the last year, an unprecedented number of unaccompanied immigrant children, mostly from Central America, have attempted to cross the border into the United States. Antonio Gonzalez, president of the William C. Velasquez Institute,explains the roots of the migration surge and the politics behind it.
Source: www.tavissmileyradio.com
An in depth explanation of the origins of the crisis that has lead children to flee to the U.S.
Eleven minutes of audio.
One point Gonzalez had wrong is that the crisis started back in 2009, years longer than the one year that he suggested.
Cell phone video shows the moment a mother was beaten by another woman while her toddler looked on.
Source: www.cnn.com
Well, not only men are violent.
And guess who didn’t show up for that job that she ‘almost lost.’
Did somebody call someone a terrorist? Who is the terrorist?
And not a soul stepped in to protect the toddler when threats where made to the toddler.
PS – Police brutality videos also show the ‘moral breakdown of our society’. Has U.S. society every been angelic?
Virtual cities of children are fleeing their homes. This is a lot bigger than U.S. border control, a United Nations protection officer explains.
Source: www.nationaljournal.com
“The room where they locked up Heather Luke’s 10-year-old son had cinder block walls, a dim light and a fan in the ceiling that rattled so insistently her son would beg them to silence it. A thick metal door with locks—which they threw, clank-clank-clank—separated the autistic boy from the rest of the decrepit building in Chesapeake, Virginia, just south of Norfolk. One day in March 2011, his mother said, Carson flew into a panic at the mere suggestion of being confined there after an outburst.Staff members held him down, then muscled him through the hallway and attempted to lock him in, yet again. But this time, the effort went awry. Staffers crushed Carson’s hand while trying to slam the door. A surgeon later needed to operate to close the bleeding half-moon a bolt had punched into his left palm. The wound was so deep it exposed bone.” Click through to read more. Source: illuminatebytanya.wordpress.com
Immigration officials were caught in an untenable position. And then they made it worse.
Unaccompanied minors from Central America, as well as mothers with young children, have been crossing the Rio Grande into south Texas in vast numbers this year. Increasing gang violence in their home countries incredibly makes the long trek across Mexico a safer alternative. Some seek to reunite with parents who already crossed the border. Human smugglers promise a land of milk and honey.
They’re not heading for California, Arizona or west Texas. Those sectors of the border have been fortified. Even desperation cannot push a child into a deadly desert. Instead, they’ve targeted the most lightly guarded section of the border, where a nearly dry river is easily crossed into south Texas.
Once over, they are quickly caught, apparently part of the plan.
The Border Patrol and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement are trapped. Then, because secrecy is engrained in the culture of their parent Department of Homeland Security, they do a poor job of getting out of the trap.
Immigration officials can’t send these children back across the border. They can’t fly them back to Central America once they make a credible claim of fear of violence. They don’t have adequate facilities in south Texas to process the children. They need help.
But instead of acknowledging their problem, instead of reaching out to state leaders in Arizona and California, they surprised them.
In Arizona, it started when families were dropped at bus stations, apparently after being processed at Arizona immigration facilities with greater capacity than those in Texas. Most, it turned out, were bound for other states.
But no one here knew this. A state that bore the brunt of the last surge in illegal immigration feared the worst. It was unconscionable that the Border Patrol and ICE said nothing.
Next came the children, bused into a warehouse of a building in Nogales. Again, the buses showed up out of nowhere, with no warning and no explanation. Hundreds of children were dumped into a building with insufficient beds and showers. If nothing else said crisis, that did.
But again, no explanation. Just that stony silence until reporters started pressing for answers. In the meantime, the vacuum of information invited politicians to puff up their outrage. SB 1070 was born in an atmosphere like this.
Silence and surprises do not serve ICE or the Border Patrol. They do not serve the people of the United States. And they do little for the children bewildered by all they are encountering.
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Source: www.azcentral.com
Caroline Starks was 2 years old. Her 5-year-old brother was playing nearby with his birthday present: a .22-caliber Crickett rifle. His mother stepped outside for a moment, certain the gun wasn’t loaded. She was wrong. Caroline was pronounced dead a few hours later at the Cumberland County Hospital in Kentucky….
Source: www.slate.com