The Caravan - Turning what should be the best of America into a spectacle of hate.
This is about the principles of our country. It is about who we are. The "caravan's" should be viewed as a point of pride and willingness to do right by those in need in the eyes of Americans. The President and his deplorables are taking the best of our foundation and uprooting it toward a path of immoral, unethical, and unbridled hatred. It is destroying the fabric of our society as once these thoughts set in it also turns countryman against countryman. Ideologically and by way of skin color. Citizenship matters little at that point.
Many of the people who come to this county, or try to, are asylum seekers. These "caravan's" are loaded with asylum seekers. People making the trip for very good reason. It should be a point of pride for us that the good old US of A is their final destination. Where they want to bring themselves and their families.
The "caravan's" are not a problem. They are a sign of what is best about us(should be). They are a true testament of humans want and need to survive and to care for families. Donald Trump and his deplorables have done enormous harm to how the average American sees these people. With US rugged individualism winning the day the message of hate seems to have more of an impact across the board than a message of inclusion, compassion, and understanding. The message of hate seems easier to deliver to the masses. It is often a cornerstone of populist rhetoric.
These people deserve to be treated with dignity. Many of them should be let into our country. Without the hate this would actually be a very easy process. A lot of hard work but once structures are put in place, which many currently are, it would truly be pretty easy.
We deserve, at a minimum, to be protected by the Federal Government. I am not naive to the dangers we face and am not a proponent of open borders(I am not for the wall). This isn't a situation where we just turn a blind eye as they come right into the country. Just the opposite of a blind eye. We should embrace them, enhance their chance for achieving a better life in our country, and weed out the shitheads wanting to do us harm.
Honduran refugees await papers in Mexico as new caravan arrives
Tapachula, Mexico - Luis Jose Carbajal was 19 years old when he was shot. It was two months after the June 2009 coup d'etat in Honduras, and people all over the country were taking to the street to protest the removal and expatriation of elected President Manuel Zelaya by the military.
Carbajal was participating in a demonstration against the coup in northwestern Honduras, along a key highway between San Pedro Sula, the country's second largest city, and Puerto Cortes, its main port. Police and soldiers showed up and, before long, opened fire.
"I heard the gunshots and felt something searing," Carbajal told Al Jazeera.
Carbajal was shot in the thigh, but the bullet went straight through his leg and did not hit an artery. He does not have any documentation from the hospital, because he never went, fearing security forces would track him down there.
Aljazeera
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