Before forming an opinion, let's gather the FACTS!

This is a MUST READ about the fruits of failed US Foreign Policy that has caused disaster for other nations:

Here's How The U.S. Sparked A Refugee Crisis On The Border, In 8 Simple Steps

Posted: 07/18/2014

The 57,000 children from Central America who have streamed across the U.S.-Mexico border this year were driven in large part by the United States itself. While Democrats and Republicans have been pointing fingers at each other, in reality the current wave of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras has its roots in six decades of U.S. policies carried out by members of both parties.

Since the 1950s, the U.S. has sown violence and instability in Central America. Decades of Cold War gamesmanship, together with the relentless global war on drugs, have left a legacy of chaos and brutality in these countries. In many parts of the region, civil society has given way to lawlessness. It's these conditions the children are escaping.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/refugee-crisis-border_n_5596125.html

NPR: Who are the refugee kids at the border? (audio, video)

by Comic Saenz on July 30, 2014 in Audio, El Now, Video

Researcher Elizabeth Kennedy interviewed a 12-year-old boy who returned to El Salvador barefoot; he had been robbed of everything he owned.

 

"I asked him if he was going to try again," says Kennedy, "and he just burst into tears and said, 'What would you do if you were me? I haven't seen my mom or my dad in 10 years ... and no one here loves me.'"

 

 

 

NPR/Parallels writes:

Since October, a staggering 57,000 unaccompanied migrant children have been apprehended at the southwestern U.S. border. Sometimes, they’ve been welcomed into the country by activists; other times they’ve been turned away by protesters.

President Obama has called the flood of migrant children seeking refuge from violence and poverty in Central America a “humanitarian crisis at the border.” Earlier this month, he requested $3.7 billion from Congress to respond to the crisis and urged Central American leaders to discourage more children from attempting the dangerous journey through Mexico, where they are targets for local criminal gangs and drug cartels.

The number of migrant children hailing from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala has more than doubled since last year. But who are these young people, and why are they coming in such large numbers?

Continued at NPR.org…