President Trump and his base are in an uproar over the so-called caravan of Latin American refugees applying for asylum at our southern border, despite the fact that this is perfectly legal.
These poor people are asking to apply for legal asylum — something allowed by U.S. law. Yet, we see them gassed and shot at by U.S. border “security.”
Personally, I think that there needs to be a new question added to all asylum petitions: “Are you fleeing a country where the U.S. government has sponsored a coup, overthrown a leader, meddled in elections, trained death squads, supported a dictator, imposed economic sanctions or manipulated the economy?”
Anyone who can check that box — which is anyone and everyone fleeing any country south of the U.S./Mexico border — deserves automatic asylum in this country.
If you are curious as to how U.S. foreign policy helped to create the current migrant “crisis,” watch Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges interview Professor Dana Frank here. She details just some of the ways in which the 2009 overthrow of Honduras’ democratically elected
government, perpetrated by the Obama administration with Hillary Clinton as its premier cheerleader, led to the catastrophe that has now engulfed Honduras.
America owes not only asylum, but reparations and continuing support, to every man, woman and child now hoping to find a new life north of the border.
