Republicans always claim America is the best nation on Earth; to their chagrin, child refugees fleeing violence and poverty in Latin America are listening.
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(im)migration
57,000 Possible Cases of Asylum
Mr. Obama called the surge in children from Central America an “actual humanitarian crisis on the border,” and said it “only underscores the need to drop the politics and fix our immigration system once and for all.”
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The U.S. Roots of the Central American Immigrant Influx
Before dying of pneumonia at a Guatemala hospital in late May, the recently deported 21-year-old Gustavo Antonio Vásquez Chaj told his family that the U.S. Border Patrol had kept him, at some point, wet, stripped of a layer of clothing, and in a cold cell during several days in detention.
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The tragic journey of Vásquez Chaj and Tucux Chiché is one story among many of how harmful U.S. political and economic policies in Latin America violently intersect with a hardening and brutal system of U.S. immigration control. In their case, the young men’s voyage was first and foremost one of necessity rather than of choice. Vásquez Chaj and Tucux Chiché were economic migrants fleeing a country of wreck and ruin that decades of harmful U.S. foreign and economic policies have helped to bring about.
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It is indisputable that the United States shares significant responsibility for the genocide of tens of thousands of Guatemalans—mainly indigenous Mayans, including members of Gustavo and Maximiliano’s community, who comprised a majority of the (at least) 150,000 killed in the 1980s alone.
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VIDEO – Luis Gutierrez about children at the border
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?
Documented – The Movie
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Pope Francis: Migrant Children Must Be ‘Welcomed And Protected’
“This humanitarian emergency requires, as a first urgent measure, these children be welcomed and protected,” Pope Francis said.
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Jose Antonio Vargas, symbol of immigration debate, freed after detention
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas was detained at a Texas airport, a spokesman says.
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Inside the Immigration ‘Icebox’ – COLORLINES
An unaccompanied child migrant from Honduras speaks out about ‘freezing’ in a holding cell.
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Teen describes brutal journey into U.S. – CNN.com Video
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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UN Pushes For Fleeing Central Americans To Be Treated As Refugees | VIDEO
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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