They are pursuing counterproductive and immoral policies against all available evidence.
Central Americans continue to make the perilous trek through Mexico in hopes of finding security and opportunity in the United States. On Friday, Mexican authorities rescued 136 migrants, from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, inside a truck where the outside temperature exceeded 100 degrees. Authorities heard the cries of those inside after the trailer had been abandoned by the side of the road.
At the same time, hundreds of Central Americans are marching through Mexico on their way to the United States. Organized by Pueblos Sin Fronteras, the caravan seeks to "help migrants safely reach the United States, bypassing not only authorities who would seek to deport them, but gangs and cartels who are known to assault vulnerable migrants." Some plan to seek asylum at the border, while others say that the will look to cross illegally.
No matter the migrant horror stories in Mexico or the United States, conditions in Central America's Northern Triangle continue to push citizens from their home countries. About 80 percent of those traveling with the caravan have left Honduras, where they say that political violence in the wake of Juan Orlando Hernandez's controversial elections have made life even more difficult. According to one Honduran woman traveling north, “After the president [was sworn in] it got worse. There were deaths, mobs, robbed homes, adults and kids were beaten up.”
It is criminal that the administration's default is that these people coming to the US are rapists and bad hombres; that they are looking to game the asylum system; and they that are responsible for much of what ails our society. They are pursuing counterproductive and immoral policies against all available evidence.
At the same time, hundreds of Central Americans are marching through Mexico on their way to the United States. Organized by Pueblos Sin Fronteras, the caravan seeks to "help migrants safely reach the United States, bypassing not only authorities who would seek to deport them, but gangs and cartels who are known to assault vulnerable migrants." Some plan to seek asylum at the border, while others say that the will look to cross illegally.
No matter the migrant horror stories in Mexico or the United States, conditions in Central America's Northern Triangle continue to push citizens from their home countries. About 80 percent of those traveling with the caravan have left Honduras, where they say that political violence in the wake of Juan Orlando Hernandez's controversial elections have made life even more difficult. According to one Honduran woman traveling north, “After the president [was sworn in] it got worse. There were deaths, mobs, robbed homes, adults and kids were beaten up.”
It is criminal that the administration's default is that these people coming to the US are rapists and bad hombres; that they are looking to game the asylum system; and they that are responsible for much of what ails our society. They are pursuing counterproductive and immoral policies against all available evidence.
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