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Child Refugee Border Crisis Outrage Misdirected. It’s US Foreign Policy-Driven
The United States border crisis is directly related to two U.S. policies related to its terror training of Central American leaders at the School of the Americas and NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), that worsened poverty in Mexico, where children are fleeing.
No matter which set of facts one studies, United States policies are fueling its immigration crisis.
Victim-Blaming: Ignoring US Policy Root Causes, Rights Of The Child
US deportations are fueling Central American gang warfare that in turn are causing children to flee their homelands, according to former Sen. Alfredo Gutierrez in an interview last week.
This week, MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow spoke with Gutierrez about the surge of undocumented migrant children, and the link between U.S. laws and Central America’s violent gang culture. He said the US immigration policy is fueling gang violence. Media, especially conservative media, is quick to blame President Barack Obama for the immigration crisis.
A Honduras teacher told Fox News this week that she’s witnessed the fear of violence. When Kelley Blakslee accepted a position as a teacher at an international school in San Pedro, Honduras she didn’t know she was moving to “murder capitol of the world.” This violence began long before the Obama regime.
Daily, Blakslee sees effects of the surge of drug and gang violence in Honduras, according to FOX News: ”Violence that some claim is to blame for the recent wave of children traveling to the United States alone. Her students are from wealthier family and fear kidnappings; they arrive to school every day with armed guards. Her school is also protected by guards as well.”
“There are places that you don’t want to go, and there are places that are fine, and it’s like here in the states, I wouldn’t go by myself, you have to be more cautious and aware of your surroundings,” said Blasklee.
She said Honduras is surrounded by poverty. That, however, is where FOX News left the story – failing to report why Honduras and other countries south of the border, namely Mexico, are suffering in poverty even more than before the United States pushed NAFTA.
Historically, most unaccompanied children caught crossing the border were Mexicans. Those apprehended crossing into the US can be immediately “returned” to Mexico, regardless of their age. This year, a projected 17,350 or so unaccompanied Mexican children will be apprehended by Border Patrol agents. Very few of those will be housed in the US.
More attention is given to the child refugee crisis today because Central American children have joined the struggle, almost doubling the size of the problem – and conservatives want to place all the blame on Obama. Too few are discussing the Rights of the Child.
NAFTA Violent Hoax
“I experience it every day, leaving the school grounds, there are kids all over in the streets,” she said. ”You’ll see kids asleep on the streets, actually more kids than adults which is heartbreaking. That’s how large it is, there’s the upper crust and then there’s a really large gap in the middle.”
But isn’t that the injustice NAFTA was supposed to alleviate? A look at more documented facts reveals it to have been a dangerous hoax played on both Americans and their neighbors south of the border.
When NAFTA was passed, many people feared the worst. The results have indeed been disastrous:
- The trade deficit with Mexico exploded
- Mexican wages remain nearly as low as before NAFTA and still a small fraction of our average wages
- Wealth and power has not filtered to the people. Most of Mexico is still controlled by fewer than 100 corporations there.
- Many American trading partners relocated facilities to Mexico to circumvent other trade agreements with the U.S.
- American manufacturing lost millions of jobs in the past 19 years as U.S. companies have also moved to Mexico for lower wages and lax regulations, thus the maquilador violent crisis.
“Imagine if Congress decided a single state, such as California or Michigan, was in desperate need of jobs and investment and made dramatic changes to boost that state’s economy,” urges Thomas Heffner for The Economy In Crisis.
He urges Americans to imagine that Congress did the following for only one state in the United States:
- Dropped minimum wage to $3 per hour
- Exempted it from child labor laws
- Expanded the work week
- Reduced health and work place safety laws
- Banned unions
- Reduced protection for the environment
Heffner says in his analogy, “On top of this, the companies residing in this state would still have duty-free access to all the others states. In other words, companies in this state could produce at a fraction of the cost of other states, yet would be able to sell directly to all other 49 states and compete at no additional cost.” (Emphasis added)
“What would you think of that?” he asks. ”You and the other 49 states might agree that this was absolutely ridiculous! But this is exactly what is happening right now with NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).
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Child refugees being abused: lined like sardines under aluminum blankets on hard floors… – a Rights of the Child Violation.
Before It’s News Commenter’s Humanitarian Solution
“On the basis of the one-sided disastrous results over the past 15 years, whoever advocated NAFTA seems to be either grossly negligent in their duty of representing their constituents or is deliberately working against the best interest of this country,” Heffner writes.
Blaming the victim, however, has become a favorite American pastime, as much so as using what comedian John Oliver this week called “undocumented opinions” in the child refugee border crisis debate, two easy ways for racists to ignore facts and support their personal human rights abuse ideology.
Instead, one Before It’s News reader, Tina912, has a different idea, one that reflects the true American spirit, one based on human rights, including the rights of the child.
“What are they doing with these children?” Tina asks. “Is there some kind of program setup to fast track people to be allowed to take these children into their homes as a new type of foster parents? That way they would not overload the foster parents they already have in place. These children have special needs, green card issues, our customs. etc…
“I know if I’m thinking this and would love the info to act upon, many others out there must be thinking the same thing. This is what makes America the great country she is, even is she is a little tarnished right now! Some of us will get together and help when help is needed, while others will take care of the details to fix the issue. We all pitch in to do what we are best at, together we become one, united!”
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