Replies to post #305821 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[nwsun]

Youre absolutely right, theres no moral equivalency and most people in both aisles know that, except the far leftist on this board.

I support Trump 100% in his cutting off of foreign aid to these countries that waste our aid. MAGA

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6867795/Donald-Trump-cuts-financial-assistance-Honduras-El-Salvador-Guatemala.html

[sortagreen]

"And I am sick and tired of your false accusations about this being a white or brown issue. If 2 Million Norwegians appeared on our border with limited work and language skills, needing medical care and housing, I would still be against the open borders. "

Bullshit.

Not just a c word, a lying c word.

When people are in fear for their children's lives there's a moral equivalence. It's not a numbers game as such.

Migrants from all three countries cite violence, forced gang recruitment, and extortion, as well as poverty and lack of opportunity, as their reasons for leaving. While Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama have reported a sharp increase in flows from the Northern Triangle since 2008, most migrants are passing through to settle in the United States.

These are failed states in crisis. And these are little people caught in the crossfire. Did you whine this much about your tax money going to destabilize the area?

He listen, I put up with your racist drivel. You're like having a pet troll. But I understand if you aren't enjoying this.

Feel free to use your ignore button though.

[fuagf]

conix, You should be castigating Trump for his bigoted and incendiary rhetoric against asylum seekers. Don't kid yourself
that his attitudes, policies and words have not contributed to the very recent rise of asylum seekers on your southern border.

See - U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Total Dips to Lowest Level in a Decade
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And

Tearex, Donald Trump’s Central America strategy is both cruel and incompetent

[...]

Donald Trump’s antagonism toward Latin America might be gratifying to the more racist and isolationist elements of his political base, but it isn’t serving his presidency well. His administration’s policy in the region is both uncharitable and poorly co-ordinated, particularly in Mexico and Central America – and the various crackdowns it’s instigating are already having unintended consequences.

The administration’s latest victims are beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) coverage. TPS grants legal permission to live and work in the US, and is awarded to eligible nationals from designated countries afflicted by natural disaster and conflict. The US government first selected Central American beneficiaries of this programme in 1999, just after Hurricane Mitch .. https://www.britannica.com/event/Hurricane-Mitch .. left nearly 20,000 Central Americans dead and more than 1.5m homeless.

The Trump administration’s attitude to Central America means that thousands of people are set to lose their TPS status. Most recently, the Department of Homeland Security decided to remove Hondurans from the TPS scheme .. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/honduras-temporary-protected-status.html , meaning 86,000 Honduran nationals currently living in the US will no longer be eligible to work there. El Salvador .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/intipuca-town-relies-remittances-braces-tps-180415081217131.html .. was also removed from the programme in February, meaning 200,000 Salvadorans are expected to leave the US by September 2019.

Honduras and El Salvador are among the most violent countries in the world, and their inadequate public infrastructures and faltering economies are ill-equipped to cope with hundreds of thousands of returnees. To make matters worse, 17-18% of each country’s GDP is made up of remittances .. http://www.pewhispanic.org/2017/12/07/rise-in-u-s-immigrants-from-el-salvador-guatemala-and-honduras-outpaces-growth-from-elsewhere/ .. from people working in the US. Rescinding those people’s TPS eligibility won’t help tackle the region’s instability and grinding poverty, and it certainly won’t deter Central Americans from attempting the journey north.
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And you are dead wrong - on form quite possibly duplicitous - in classing the majority of those asylum seekers as migrants.

"We are one country. Why doesn't Europe take some of these migrants?"