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Good gracious. This news will met with glee by the far-right – just more evidence President Obama either is not doing his job, does not care … or is secretly helping them to cross and VOTE.
Virtually every Central American (and South American, for that matter) country’s democratically elected governments were overthrown by the U.S. at one time or another. (Please reply to list the exceptions.)
This is yet another crises the U.S. has, if not instigated, exacerbated and amplified through its corporatist policies.
I used to wonder “What the hell is wrong with us?” Now one need only read the news one day a week and the answer is clear.
Oy vey ou C’est la vie?
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It’s interesting that there are no child migrants from Nicaragua amongst this surge since we have long history of supporting either a corrupt right wing dictator, Somoza or the 1980’s era Contras who were trying to remove the democratically elected leftist Sandinistas. The Sandinistas have been back in power for the past number of years yet there is little migration. It is one of the poorest countries in Central America so there must be some migrating within the region.
…and thousands more Cuban refugees expected.
Any comment from the Cubiclewannabes?