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.
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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?
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“This humanitarian emergency requires, as a first urgent measure, these children be welcomed and protected,” Pope Francis said.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas was detained at a Texas airport, a spokesman says.
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An unaccompanied child migrant from Honduras speaks out about ‘freezing’ in a holding cell.
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A 17-year-old Honduran girl migrates to U.S. alone, facing threats from deadly gangs. CNN’s Alina Machado reports.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico…
The easiest way to have good records of who is entering and exiting the United States is to have easy ways of legal immigration. – Chris Wilson, Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center @Chris_E_Wilson
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President Barack Obama plans to take executive actions on immigration reform.
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Woot! That’s my president!
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.
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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.
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