Conditions in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala are all unique, but families are sending their children out of the country by and large to flee rampant violence, corruption, political instability and entrenched poverty. To stay in their home countries is to die. “It’s not an immigration issue,” says the Women’s Refugee Commission’s Brané. “It’s a refugee issue.” “For us to say that that they cannot stay, that we dont want them because there’s so many is absurd,” says Brané. “Protection standards arent about how many people qualify, theyre about whether people need protection or not.” What is this was your child, your grandchild? If your country was entrenched in violence and your child was going to be rape, tortured, and murdered...what would you do? And the U.S. corporate involvement and land ownership in these countries plays a HUGE role in the instability and devastating poverty plaguing these nations. We are PART of the problem. WWJD?
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 19:23:44 +0000
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