In 2009 the Obama administration, led by the full-throated imperialist war-monger, Hillary Clinton, facilitated a military coup against the
democratically elected, and wildly popular, Honduran president, Manuel Zalaya (see here, here, here and here).
Since then, Honduras has descended into a horrific maelstrom of drug-trafficking, gang warfare, murder, and economic collapse for the common people.
But little of this matters to the U.S. government because our hand-picked replacement for Zalaya, the current president Juan Orlando Hernandez, has implemented the malicious, neo-liberal economic practices well-suited to the expansion of American multi-national corporations.
Never mind that Hernandez and his family are all up to their eyeballs in the
drug trade. Together with his wife and brother, they have all been indicted by U.S. attorneys for drug trafficking (see here, here, here and here).
Under Hernandez’s watch, Honduran democracy has been crushed and the gates of hell-on-earth opened up. It is now one of the most violent nations in the western hemisphere with a sky-rocketing murder rate.
The greatest factor driving this scourge of nation-wide violence is the shocking growth of drug-cartel related gang violence. These brutal gangs literally run the country, at least for the average man and woman in the street.
So, the people literally flee for their lives, especially the lives of their children.
And they flee to the United States, NOT as “illegal immigrants” (whatever you think of that label) but as legal asylum seekers.
What does America do — after we have destroyed their homeland?
We refuse to give them the humanitarian assistance that they deserve.
In other words, first we burn their house down, and then we refuse to give them shelter.
Instead, we take away their children, put them in detention camps or foster homes and lose track of where we put them.
Please watch the video links below for more information about the current immigration debate that rarely if ever receives the attention it deserves from the media or our politicians. Have you ever heard an intelligent conversation or debate about our current immigration policies that included this issue of U.S. interference abroad?
I haven’t.
First, an interview with Pulitzer-Prize winning author/journalist, Sonia Nazario. She describes her recent investigative visits to Honduras, and what she witnessed there (about 18 min.).
She describes Honduras today as “a narco-state supported by the United States.”
Second, a two-part interview (part 1, part 2) with former president Zalaya where he discusses the U.S. backed coup that forced him to flee the country.
He aptly describes Hillary Clinton as a “mafia boss.”
Everyone seeking refuge in our country after escaping the violent landscape
left to them by U.S. interventionism, deserves asylum here.
Christians especially ought to be knowledgeable and filled with empathy over the plight of those refugees who suffer because of American meddling in their homelands.
Include these crucial facts in your next conversation with anyone ignorantly chanting, “Send them back.”
