Honduras immigrants

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Assign responsibility of one immigrant to a person who signed a petition to abolish I.C.E.
 

Apparently people are listening to me. We’re finally involving the UN
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Where is the Catholic outrage over recent American immigration policies? Social Justice
The initial treatment is deportation to a Safe Zone in Mexico under UN Protection.
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I prefer people taking concrete action. Especially when the situation isn’t hopeless. Politicians must be held accountable and punished!
 
Considering whomever reports on this can’t decide if it’s 2 , 3 or 4 k. …
But pray, imagine the desperation to walk all that way
 
If POTUS can have a summit with N. Korea over nuclear weapons, why can’t he have a summit with the Presidents of Honduras and Mexico to try to find a solution to their problem. We keep sending money to these countries, but I don’t see that it’s helping them. They need help. Honduras is the most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere. We need to fix the issues so their people are not so desperate to escape the dangerous environment.
 
I thought we were told for years when we got into the Middle East and considered action in Crimea that we are not the world’s police, and need to stay out.

I agree Honduras needs help, but people can’t have it both ways. Unless they want to give us a large stake in their country, it isn’t our country to fix.

I think meeting with their leaders and seeing what can be done is a good idea, but I hesitate because I tire of people telling the US to mind their own business. You can’t have it both ways, and simply call on us or send us your citizens when your country goes down the toilet.
 
But we can argue that it does involve us since they are coming here for asylum.
 
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Given that that quote was from Cain, i assume you believe we should have an obligation too look out and care for others. I agree with the sentiment. Where folks differ is the practical application of said sentiment. When is it appropriate to take action to bring about good when it doesn’t involve your own country’s citizens whom you are constitutionally already chartered to care for? I have seen that argument used for getting involved in wars, immigration issues, and child custody cases.
 
Dr_Meinheimer said:
it isn’t our country to fix.
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Right. It is only our country to exploit. Let them fix it after the Americans exploit Central America for themselves and wreck the country, overthrowing democratically elected officials who do not bow to the American interests.
<<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… The CIA engineered the overthrow of a democratically elected government and created instability in the region by supporting the United Fruit Company. The U.S. funded counterinsurgency efforts in Honduras, which became a staging ground for the Contras. Death squads flourished, more than 75,000 people died and civil society collapsed. >>
Please read further:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/refugee-crisis-border_n_5596125.html
 
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Dr_Meinheimer said:
it isn’t our country to fix.
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" Since elections widely denounced as fraudulent this November, the social movements of Honduras have taken to the streets, confronting violent repression by a Honduran state armed with millions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers."


<<On June 28, [2009] a US-trained army with close links to the US Southern Command removed President Manuel Zelaya from office, kidnapped him and expelled him from Honduras. Given the close relationship between the Honduran army and the Pentagon, it is not credible that the coup took place without Washington’s knowledge and tacit approval. ">>


First, the US backed a coup that deposed the elected president. Now, it’s backing the return of death-squad government

 
Thank you AINg for that background. Do you think President Trump has a clue about this context?
 
Shakuhachi said:
Thank you AINg for that background. Do you think President Trump has a clue about this context?
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I have no doubt that there are people in his administration who know all about the mess created by US interventions in Central America.
 
I’m concerned about any wrongs we have done around the world, perhaps more so in our own Western hemisphere… but there are always two sides to the story. What happened in Honduras? I certainly do not know.
The President of Honduras serves a 4-year term and is constitutionally prohibited from re-election. When Zelaya reached the last year of his term, he decided to tinker with the Honduran Constitution. There was reason to believe he intended to remain in office indefinitely.

The US Government Accountability Office compiled a timeline of events that led to the coup:
  • In October2008, Zelaya proposed postponing the presidential primary elections scheduled for November 16, 2008. (The general election was scheduled to be held a year later in November 2009.)
  • In January 2009, Zelaya tried to change the composition of the Honduran Supreme Court. Both proposals were strongly opposed by the Honduran National Congress.
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I see on CNN that they are now gassing people and this includes children three and four years old at the border to prevent them from entering. First the US wrecks their country and now that these children want only a better life, they are being gassed. This is only 4000 people, but Europe let in millions from the Middle East. People being gassed are mostly Catholics.
 
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