The Great Central American Exodus – Why Do People Leave Their Homelands Enmasse?
25 August 2018 (Wall Street International)* – Why do people leave their homelands enmasse? Why does a steady stream of immigrants continue to attempt to cross the southern border of the United States illegally or to seek asylum in the United States? Are they simply criminals seeking to bring their “poisons” to the U.S.? Freeloaders hoping to take advantage of the welfare system in the U.S? Might there be reasons that most of the American public is unaware of?
- The Great Exodus | Photo from Wall Street International.
Eighty-five to ninety percent of those seeking refuge in the United States give gang violence or domestic abuse as reasons for fleeing their homeland.
However, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered immigration judges to stop granting asylum to persons, mostly women, who are fleeing gang and domestic violence.
Asylum seekers report death threats from local gangs, the murders of family members, retaliatory rape, and political persecution.
These asylum seekers come from Central America’s “Northern Triangle,” which includes El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. What do these three countries have in common?
Martha R. Bireda‘s article was published in Wall Street International. Go to Original.
More articles by Martha R. Bireda published in Human Wrongs Watch:
History Redux – The Separation of Children and Families
I Want My Country Back — A Return to American Apartheid?
Black Boys — Robbed of Childhood Innocence
Good People – Race Consciousness Evolution
The Brute – The Mythical Black Male
The Great Fear — The Myth of Whiteness
Why Not Mexican Immigrants? A History of Discrimination and Exclusion
