With thousands of migrants from Central America currently stranded just south of the US border in Mexico, it’s time to ignore the political rhetoric coming from Washington for a few minutes and focus on the reasons so many choose to leave country, culture and family behind and walk 2,500 miles (4,000 kms) to an unknown […]
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This Christmas, I find no reason for celebration. My thoughts are with the desperate mothers and fathers from Guatemala and other Central American countries who seek only a secure life for their children. If we, the world’s largest economy, cannot provide them with refuge, who will?
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may god bless all those people and guide them
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It’s about time that the bigger nations started involving themselves in solving the troubles of nations such as Guatemala and El Salvador. Stop all the rubbish about communists and people who oppose American interests and actually do something. Europe need to do the same about countries such as Ghana, Gabon and other West African sources of migration. If people are happy in their own country, they don’t need to walk 2,700 miles to somewhere better.
PS: Where are the famed United Nations in all this? What have they done to help these desperate people?
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PS: the United Nations are made up of Disunited and inimical Nations, the biggest of which only use that platform to push their own private interests and agendas. It was always thus. They certainly did not end the war in VietNam nor Apartheid and remain utterly impotent re: the Middle East madness and Afghanistan. The org. has become a complete sham and if it wasn’t growing corruption by aiding and abetting and functioning strictly to maintain bureaucratic jobs, it would get no funding and would simply collapse, just as the League of Nations did and it isn’t far behind in suffering a similar fate in my opinion. I wonder who will “buy them” if they lose their invitation by Congress to remain in New York? I suppose they bring in too many famous visitors’ dollars to be asked to leave? It’s all about the money in any case. Maybe they should be privatized and the name changed to better reflect their use: United Global Corporations?
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Another point to jfwknifton, if the bigger nations stayed the hell out of those troubled nations, their troubles would decrease exponentially. The chaos is deliberately caused to make it easier for corporations to move in and exploit at will without the bother of local laws and human rights issues. Honduras at the moment being the worst example of such destruction of local autonomy of government and economy.
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John, I’m so glad that your raised the question about the United Nations. I know of the tremendous work The UN Refugee Angency (UNHCR) is doing across the world. What I’ve just learned is that the UN has a special agency, The United Nations Migration Agency (IOM), for handling the movement of migrants worldwide. Here’s the link to their article, “Migrants from the Caravans Receive IOM Support to Return to their Countries,” posted on the official website on November 30, 2018.
You can also get an update on the migrant situation in Europe in the African countries you mention from the IOM World Migration Report 2018.
We in the USA have been so caught up in what our president has called an “invasion” that we have failed to see the bigger picture.
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Thanks for sharing this important post Rosaliene. My heart grieves at the increasing selfishness and national interests of so many politicians these days
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My heart grieves, also, Denzil. As citizens, we have to continue to hold our politicians to higher moral standards.
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I second that Denzil.
Its downright sad.
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For me the key Brexit issue was the number of refugees dying in the sea as they aimed for Europe. The problem was left to those countries least able to cope with it. This has been mentioned by neither side in the debate
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So true, Derrick. And nobody asks why are these people fleeing from their homelands? I think that the refugee crisis will prove to be the undoing of the European Union.
See the link to The United Nations Migration Agency (IOM) shared on my response to jfwknifton’s comment.
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You are quite right in my view
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Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
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Thanks for sharing, Cyril. Have a great week 🙂
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Thanks for the reblog, GuyFrog 🙂
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You are absolutely right. Why can’t we all be kind and caring, why USA is so cruel to the world.<3
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Sadly, Laleh, cruelty has plagued empires throughout the ages 😦 It’s the dark nature of domination of a few over humanity.
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Yes, very sad.😘❤️
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The abject cruelty of the Trump administration towards these migrants is a clear violation of both U.S. asylum laws and international human rights law. In other words, it’s not just despicably immoral it is also illegal. They must be held accountable.
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Robert, it’s my hope that the new Democratic-led House will address this issue–among the many on their list–when they take office in January 2019.
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I’m praying for all those families and nations. I may not know much about politics and international relations, but I have read a little on the impact of refugees, asylum seekers, Dreamers, and undocumented immigrants in our country. What is really sad is when families are not only separated during migration (due to the choices the migrating parents make for their children, and probably for good reason), but the secondary separation that occurs when undocumented families in the U.S. are found out by authorities and immediately detained in jails, holding cells of some sort (in some cases, shelters), and/or child welfare shelters (for immigrant youth who have been separated from their immigrant adult family members and fictive kin). They are treated in our country like criminals, but they are not “criminals” in the sense that they are doing what they feel is best for their family’s well-being and safety. When immigrant youth are placed into the child welfare system or juvenile detention centers, they, too, are treated either as criminals or as “maltreated children,” when they are not necessarily maltreated in such cases. Maltreatment is either against the law or unlawful (the former is a crime, the latter requires wraparound services and/or family interventions and/or long-term permanency planning). Because certain forms of immigration are considered unlawful and/or criminal (I’m not sure yet which), these families and the youth of such families pay the price. I’ve heard arguments go back and forth regarding the policies on what to do with such persons, but where’s the love and empathy for such people? Where’s the humanity in rejecting them? The problem will not go away. I feel for the adults and the families, but I really have a heart for the kids who deserve a better chance at development without being traumatized by filial separation, the iatrogenic effects of foster care/child welfare detention, the abuses that may go on in adult and child detention centers (which have also been researched and published), and the natural traumatic experiences from their country and their migration experiences. Social stigma, national rejection, deportation, and other after-effects of rather mean politics only add to their pain. I just hope and pray they can find love and support among one another, that is, if they haven’t been totally separated and secluded from their families and fictive kin, and that they can have a happy holiday and new year. I just hope and pray that politicians grow empathy within their hardened and/or stoic hearts.
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Yes we are a great nation and the best economy in the world. We are the most generous people on earth and we are a country of laws we don’t have an obligation to let anyone in. Merry Christmas
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Cyril, thanks for dropping by and sharing your thoughts on this issue.
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Rosaliene, thank you so much for sharing such crucial information about the desperate economic and political contexts created in large past by U.S meddling that have led to mass migrations. It’s deeply troubling that so few people are aware of this history.
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Carol, I’ve observed that Americas pay little attention to our government’s foreign policies unless it affects their lives in some way.
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That’s so true, Rosaliene. I think that has a lot to do with what is NOT taught in our public schools. We’re forced to memorize nationalistic fiction in history that keep us ignorant about the rest of the world and nationalistic empire-building global interventions that continue to destroy other nations, cultures, and environments.
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Same here, we have breached our humanitarian obligations for thirty years now – shameful.
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Paul, I think that there’s need for us, as members of the global community of nations, to re-visit our obligations under the UN Charter.
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Fully agree Rosaliene, long overdue on every front now, and becoming unworkable, so deeply destructive as there is no buy-in anymore.
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There was a time when the United States was not cruel, when we welcomed those who for valid reasons felt they had to leave their native lands for the safety of their families. It is my hope and prayer that my country will come back to being the compassionate nation it once was and discard the policies that seemingly take us backwards into bleak hatred of anyone who differs from the white Anglo-Saxon vision currently held as “American.” These beliefs these policies are not American. They do not represent the values of the average American. They have to be overturned. This current government has to be overturned. My hope is in our next election. Other than that, many Americans will be leaving the country of their birth.
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Barbara, thanks for dropping by and sharing your thoughts.
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USA are receiving more than 1 million immigrants yearly, legal immigrants I mean. I think it is a lot. Some comments are untrue. As much as I have compassion for the people who want to improve their quality of life ( and it is a normal desire for any human), I cannot agree with these comments. Having been a migrant myself, many years ago, I chose a legal way. My situation was quite tragic, but I survived. I learned the language ( my third), and never belittled any country on social media. It is just low.
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Thanks for sharing your experience as a legal immigrant, Inese. My sons and I are also legal immigrants here in the USA.
I agree that “it is just low” to belittle other countries.
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Your post is a
heartfelt awakening for humanity.
a humanitarian humiliation
seen by the rest of the world.
may we keep our heads up
above the shame, the pain
& the blame, moving
towards the light, Rosaliene 🙂
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Thanks for adding your thoughts, David. Much light is needed at this time.
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very true
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Thanks for dropping by 🙂
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