Posted on 04/12/2017 10:49:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
As Guadalupe saw it, she had two choices: Flee her native El Salvador or stay and end up murdered by the same gangbangers who killed her husband.
The 26-year-old widow left her home country in November, paying a “coyote” to facilitate the dangerous, 23-day journey north so she could sneak into the United States with her two young children.
“I had no other choice, I felt I was risking my life and my children’s lives to continue staying there,” Guadalupe recently told The Post, too afraid to reveal her last name.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Well, it’s the fault of Spain and Pope Marx.....
America
https://youtu.be/Qy6wo2wpT2k
That initiative was mostly meant to help Mexico combat drug trafficking and related violence, but also included $65 million for Central America, as well as for Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Out of that was born the Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI), a separate strategy aimed specifically at boosting law enforcement and strengthening governments in the region.
Since 2008, Congress has appropriated more than $1 billion to Central America through that effort.
“CARSI was a security strategy, it wasn’t a development strategy — it didn’t address economic issues,” explained Eric Olson, deputy director of the Wilson Center’s Latin America Program.
By 2014, the State Department had already begun mulling the idea of rewriting CARSI to make its mission broader.
Then that summer, thousands of unaccompanied children from the Northern Triangle poured into Texas, setting off a border crisis that suddenly amplified the need for aid in the region.
The Obama administration took a multipronged approach to address the underlying issues plaguing the area — developing the “US Strategy for Engagement in Central America” and the Alliance for Prosperity Plan, which was meant to help the nations in the Northern Triangle come up with their own strategies to address migration issues, Olson said.
As a whole, the package targeted several problems the region faces — including extreme poverty and lack of economic opportunities, high homicide rates and corruption.
For fiscal year 2016, Congress granted $750 million in aid to the Northern Triangle — more than double the money allocated to the region in 2014. Much of it went toward development assistance, drug-related CARSI efforts, and supporting Northern Triangle economies.
So how much of this aid went to MS-13 and drug cartels?
Sad story, but she admits she SNEAKED INTO the United States.
What can you offer the USA other than a sad tale of woe?
Believe me, many an American has their very own hard luck story. We cannot take every unlucky person in the world.
Nor should we even pretend that this may be an appropriate goal.
If her safety and that of her children was the factor she claims, Mexico is a lot closer and easier to reach than the US. Of course, she may be stretching the truth to serve some journalist’s needs.
Let them fix their own countries, not infest and destroy ours. If these people need weapons to protect themselves, maybe we should arm them?
Mmmm...methinks the publications with a normally conservative bent are preparing us for some form of amnesty for the “children” of illegals.
Get out the handkerchief and violin.
Sorry NYP and RINOs, all out of sympathy - we’ve heard all the stories during the GWB years. Not going to happen under a Trump administration.
Unless, of course, someone sends pictures to Ivanka...
I know a guy and his wife from El Salvador here in Fairbanks, Ak. A church helped him get here, hiding out I guess until he can get his papers. He told me that in every community, there are gangs that run the show, kill whoever they want to. They target family members of local business owners. Several of his relatives have been murdered. He told me that they were going to kill his family too, so he picked up and got out. When you face you and your wife being killed; you leave he said. This guy was Christian, and quite high class. I guess you are sometimes forced to do the unthinkable inorder to survive. True story.
Question to anyone...
Why do these people pay smugglers to get them across the border?
Why not just get on a plane or a bus to San Diego, then overstay your visa?
The only thing I can figure is that the folks who need to be smuggled were previously expelled from the USA and can’t get a visa.
Their sob story is not our problem. Why not send them home and help them fix their problem instead of bringing it here?
Everyone’s a refugee...
She can’t even dream of immigrating to Mexico.
They have very stringent rules and laws.
You have to be self supporting to begin with. She would need a job offer and that would be restricted, as Mexico mandates Mexicans first and there really isn’t a way around that.
Blame it on the Spaniards and have them pay reparations for all the pain and anguish you are going through.
We have our own problems to deal with here having to pay for something that we had no hand in doing
Oh, and get the hell out of our Country you illegal dirt bag
You are complicit in them breaking our laws, aiding and abetting these illegal invaders.
You are part of the problem. Pick up your phone and do your duty as an American Citizen, report them and have them deported.
We understand that some countries are hell-holes. We understand that it must be horrible to live in those countries for many people. We cannot, however, take in every person who has been victimized by the warlords (or whatever) in their home countries. That kind of policy only leads us to become the same kind of country all of those “refugees” are escaping.
A much better solution is to address the crime and poverty in those countries, to foster a culture of respect and self-reliance, etc. That takes time and effort (commodities the left does not want to invest). However, in the end, the results are better for everyone.
The Central American Catholic establishment has been liberation theology since at least the 1950s. C.A. Catholic clergy have been strong backers of Castro, Che Guevara, Sandanistas, etc.
Catholic clergy were very much involved in pointing out anti-communist voices to the Sandanistas.
The result has been that many Central Americans have converted to Jehovah Witness, Mormon, or Evangelical. But even more have fallen away from any religion or any moral code.
In contrast the Mexican Catholic church has been at the other extreme, very anti-communist, very conservative on both theology and ritual. The result has been that relatively few Mexicans have left the church... until they come to the USA and discover that the American Catholic church is not at all like the Mexican Catholic church.
Mexicans in the USA are far more likely to leave the liberation theology American Catholic church for Evangelical churches than when they are in Mexico. Actually, they try to be in both at the same time. They attend the Evangelical church most of the time. But they still want to be baptized, married, and receive all the sacraments of the Catholic church.
FOR GREATER GLORY aka CRISTIADA, the 2013 movie now on DVD with Andy Garcia and Eva Longoria is a great and accurate description of why the Mexican Catholic is so different from other Catholics.
Nobodys country is going to get fixed if all the good people flee, and run.
Are there still American expats who extol the benefits of living in these cesspools?
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