America's Response: Child Refugees Fleeing Bloodbaths Is Take Terrible Care of Them & Send Them Back

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/immigration/americas-response-child-refugees-fleeing-bloodbaths-take-terrible-care-them-and-send


American kid meets Mexican kid on the other side of the fence. USA Mexico Border, San Diego Tijuana.
Photo Credit: Ana Phelps


Those seething with so much rage and xenophobia that they’d hurl ugly epithets in the faces of children fleeing bloody violence in Central America bring shame to the whole nation. But the response of mainstream America hasn’t been much better.

The media’s characterization of what’s going on at our southern border as a “crisis,” politicians pointing fingers at one another and Washington’s refusal to provide the resources necessary to care for a small wave of refugees — not to mention the bipartisan push to send them back home — is just as shameful when one considers the context.In June, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that in 2013, the global population of refugees from war and persecution hit 51.2 million — exceeding 50 million for the first time since World War II.Half of them were children.The vast majority were “internally displaced persons,” homeless people within their home countries. Many live in fetid refugee camps run by underfunded NGOs, where they face continuing privation and abuse.

There are over ten million refugees in Africa, and five million in Asia. More than six million people have been displaced for years, and in some cases decades. The UN estimates that 6.3 million people have been displaced in Syria alone.

The US has had a hand in this global crisis. According to the UNHCR, Afghanistan accounts for the world’s largest population of refugees; in Iraq, many of the two million people who fled the country after the US-led invasion in 2003 are now returning, despite the fact that many of its 1.7 million internally displaced citizens remain homeless, and more than one million new refugees have fled ISIS, or The Islamic State. Iraq has also absorbed about one million refugees from Syria.

[malaise]

1. The US is also responsible for the mess in Central America

Every myth has been shattered - freedom and democracy my ass.

[xchrom]

2. +1

[KG]

3. much of what america supposedly stands for is a myth.

[malaise]

4. That's true for the vast majority of our planet

Most of the claims are lies and BS while they loot and plunder.

[newfie11]

5. So very very true!!!! Nt