Yes, the issue is immigration, not taking children from certain families. It's a great example of how philosophically void our culture is.
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Yes, the issue is immigration, not taking children from certain families. It's a great example of how philosophically void our culture is.
This is nothing but pure bigotry.
And yet nobody addresses the real problem ... the cause of refugees in their homelands. What can we do there, so people don't feel the need to run?
Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador mostly. Why not go help those governments get a handle on stuff there so we don't have such desperation. Surely a little would go a long way. A family has to be incredibly desperate to run. The middle east? Well that's a whole new problem, and at a scale 100 times worse than this.
Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador mostly. Why not go help those governments get a handle on stuff there so we don't have such desperation. Surely a little would go a long way. A family has to be incredibly desperate to run. The middle east? Well that's a whole new problem, and at a scale 100 times worse than this.
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metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
And yet Trump just stated that these Central American countries should probably be punished.
tytlyf
Not Religious
I'm pretty sure the situation in a lot of those countries is in part due to American intervention. We helped destabilize those countries years ago.
CIA activities in Guatemala - Wikipedia
Yes I know. But the finger has to point somewhere.
tytlyf
Not Religious
So you're pointing the finger at the governments of those countries and blaming them for making people flee violence and poor living conditions? Even though the current state of those governments is in part due to US intervention?
How US policy in Honduras set the stage for today's mass migration
Thief
Rogue Theologian
I kinda thought it was the poverty turning to crime and drugs for relief
They should, they're terrible to their people which is why they're fleeing here.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
But that likely would only make things worse. These are very poor countries with few resources, and what resources they do have tend to be controlled by the wealthy that export most of their produce, for example, while so many other suffer because there's little opportunity for employment and pay for the campesinos is typically very substandard.
BTW, "America" magazine (Jesuit) had an issue almost entirely devoted to this last spring, so maybe you can google and see if you can get it on-line. I can but that's because I have a subscription to it.
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You misunderstood. I was implying that the States points it's finger there, not taking any responsibilty for the mess it created. Not everyone, of course.