MIGRANT CARAVANS: POVERTY, MURDER, & BEATINGS IN THE REAR VIEW AS THEY JUMP THE COYOTE

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A caravan of an estimated 7,000 migrants, including many families and women with children, originated in Central America and is making its way through Mexico towards the United States. Today, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he will start cutting, or substantially reducing, aid to Central America. According to research and advocacy group the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), this would be acounterproductive reaction that would undermine efforts to address the root causes of migration, namely, violence, corruption, poverty, and lack of economic opportunity.  

1. Why are people leaving? And why are they leaving now?

Severe insecurity: Honduras and El Salvador are among the deadliest places in the world that aren’t war zones—Small Arms Survey ranked the two countries in the top 5 most violent in the world, alongside Venezuela, Syria, and Afghanistan. Guatemala was 17th, ahead of Colombia and Mexico. Repressive policing and in some cases outright abuse by government security forces has done little to turn the tide. 

Droughts, floods, and other [climate change] phenomena

Lack of economic opportunity [for men leads to...] 

Intolerable situations of domestic violence [for women]

2. Can Trump cut aid to Central America?

    
     Deb Lynn Translation 

- Not without congress 

-And only if he wants to drive even more people out of Honduras and El Salvador, who will trek to the United States in even larger numbers.

 3. Why are people traveling as a caravan?

    Deb Lynn Translation 

Coyotes are expensive criminals and travel with them leads to as many beatings, murders, and rapes as the criminals back home they're running from. The Caravan provides safety in numbers. 

 4. What happened to the migrant caravan that attracted so much vitriol from President Trump earlier this year?

Hundreds were allowed to petition for asylum. 

What happened to those that weren't is unknown. 

What we probably do know is that all the publicity caused by Pontificating Pumpkinhead Pretend Prez probably led to this new one being so large.  I have to wonder how many smaller caravans came to U.S. --without any publicity at all-- over years and decades before Trump's big mouth made knowledge of their existence widely known. 

 And now he wants to cut aid to countries, making them even less attractive to stay in.  

What a dumb ass.

We absolutely cannot have open borders. We absolutely cannot have somebody this dumb in charge while we're figuring out what to do. But here we are anyway.

For answers to more questions and temporary solutions to what we have before us right now, read more at Washington Office on Latin America, WOLA.ORG 

https://www.wola.org/analysis/9-questions-answers-central-american-migrant-caravan/

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