re: #309 Rightwingconspirator

I’m sorry if I seem to disagree, but isn’t violence a driver for families to flee where the cartels hold sway or battle to try to? Sure the RWNJ’s make too much of it for political reasons. But just on the face of it I can’t completely ignore those connections.

For the record I’m in strong favor of a path to citizenship. And driving the physical paths of illegal entry out into deadly desert and private border ranches has proven to be the completely wrong answer.

‘Cartel violence’ is too vague of a term to base immigration policy on. The immigrants prominent in the news right now are coming from Central America, not Mexico. Yes, the Mexican cartels reach into those countries, but the violence comes even more from their own army and police, which by the way we armed to fight the cartels. Poverty in the extreme is also a motivation.

No Childhood Here: Why Central American Children are Fleeing Their Homes

What’s the logic for requiring solutions to all the problems south of us before we reform our own problems?