...and It is a must-read for anyone trying to form an opinion about the migration problem.
It is right on.
Here is a sample:
As Central American children continue streaming into detention centers along the U.S. border, government officials in Washington are confronted with the consequences of their own decisions. By supporting corrupt governments and unsustainable economic models, the U.S. has helped create conditions so horrendous, the United Nations claimed most child migrants qualify for refugee status and should not be sent back home.--from the OP
This is the heart of the matter. Track U.S. military and U.S. Transglobal Corporate policies in the countries that the current group of child-migrants are coming from--Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador--and you find the reasons the societies in those countries have failed these children: U.S. destruction of democracy (coups against leftist democratic governments; support of fascists), U.S. militarization of the police (billions of our tax dollars), Big Ag destroying local farming, Big Retail destroying labor unions, and on and on. And then there's the corrupt, murderous, failed U.S. "war on drugs."
These societies have been destroyed. Their economies have been devastated. Their arable land has been usurped. Their public services have been privatized or eliminated. Their resources have been plundered. And their young people have no future. WE did this--or, rather, it was done in our name for the benefit of vile profiteers who
also exploit
us.