People are coming here from Central America (primarily El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua) because conditions are dangerous and unstable and they fear for their lives. Trump’s decisions to cut back on aid to help stabilize those countries is what exacerbates the dangerous conditions of instability and pours gasoline on the flames of desperation that drive people to this country.
Many of those coming here are from indigenous communities (many don’t even speak Spanish; they speak Mayan dialects) who have been persecuted, like indigenous peoples in our country.
The UNITED STATES does not have a moral right to deny asylum to those trying to escape violence and social chaos that WE CAUSED.
It is absurd that the United States turns away those seeking asylum as refugees from Central America following the long history of ACTIONS BY THE UNITED STATES that DESTABILIZED the region and CAUSED THE TURMOIL that the refugees are now fleeing from.
Ronald Reagan was the leading cause of the turmoil now seen in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras.
Guatemala and El Salvador — the CIA has long history of destabilization especially during the Reagan Administration. Reagan supported the military government and right wing extremists in El Salvador against the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a coalition of five left wing organizations). In Guatemala, Reagan provided arms to right-wing strongman José Efraín Ríos Montt, despite CIA warnings of Montt’s record of genocidal massacres against indigenous Mayans (for which he was later convicted of genocide).
Nicaragua and Honduras — Reagan destabilized the elected Sandinistas in Nicaragua to support the right wing Contras (including selling arms to Ayatollah Khomeini to finance the illegal acts for which many (including Oliver North) were convicted (but later pardoned by Bush Sr).
WE BROKE IT. We have no moral right to deny asylum to those fleeing that violence that WE CAUSED.
People are coming here from Central America (primarily El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua) because conditions are dangerous and unstable and they fear for their lives. Trump’s decisions to cut back on aid to help stabilize those countries is what exacerbates the dangerous conditions of instability and pours gasoline on the flames of desperation that drive people to this country.
Many of those coming here are from indigenous communities (many don’t even speak Spanish; they speak Mayan dialects) who have been persecuted, like indigenous peoples in our country.
The UNITED STATES does not have a moral right to deny asylum to those trying to escape violence and social chaos that WE CAUSED.
It is absurd that the United States turns away those seeking asylum as refugees from Central America following the long history of ACTIONS BY THE UNITED STATES that DESTABILIZED the region and CAUSED THE TURMOIL that the refugees are now fleeing from.
Ronald Reagan was the leading cause of the turmoil now seen in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras.
Guatemala and El Salvador — the CIA has long history of destabilization especially during the Reagan Administration. Reagan supported the military government and right wing extremists in El Salvador against the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a coalition of five left wing organizations). In Guatemala, Reagan provided arms to right-wing strongman José Efraín Ríos Montt, despite CIA warnings of Montt’s record of genocidal massacres against indigenous Mayans (for which he was later convicted of genocide).
Nicaragua and Honduras — Reagan destabilized the elected Sandinistas in Nicaragua to support the right wing Contras (including selling arms to Ayatollah Khomeini to finance the illegal acts for which many (including Oliver North) were convicted (but later pardoned by Bush Sr).
WE BROKE IT. We have no moral right to deny asylum to those fleeing that violence that WE CAUSED.