Bernie Sanders Opposes New Round of Deportation Raids

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http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/05/13/bernie-sanders-opposes-new-round-deportation-raids/

“I recently met a young Salvadoran woman who came to the United States on her own at the age of 15 to flee gangs trying to recruit her. I’ve also spoken with many children who have told me with tears streaming down their faces that they live in daily fear that their parents will be taken away,” Sanders continued. “I urge President Obama to use his executive authority to protect families by extending Temporary Protective Status for those who fled from Central America.”

Due to U.S. involvement throughout Central and South America, many undocumented immigrants have fled from corrupt governments and violence influenced by U.S. foreign policy. In 1954, the CIA orchestrated the overthrow of democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz after he nationalized banana plantations purchased by United Fruit Company. Then-CIA Director Allen Dulles and his brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, both had financial ties to United Fruit when they convinced Eisenhower to approve the operation.

In 1984, the U.S. Army School of the Americas was expelled from Panama after training death squads to kidnap, torture, and murder hundreds of thousands of their own people. The school reopened later that year in Fort Benning, Georgia, and eventually changed its name to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC).