Posted on 01/20/2018 3:00:33 PM PST by Ennis85
When Donald Trump said this month he would end temporary protected status for almost 200,000 Salvadorans, the number of immigrants standing to lose protections under this president approached the 1 million mark. This includes people, like those from El Salvador, that now stand to be deported to countries where their lives could be in danger. El Salvador has one of the world’s highest homicide rates—due in no small part to the policies of the country now trying to expel them.
Trump promised to end the protected status granted to Salvadorans in 2001 following a devastating earthquake. Then, a few days later, during a White House meeting on immigration policy, the president characterized places like El Salvador, along with Haiti, as “shithole” (or perhaps “shithouse”) countries. Unwilling to explicitly criticize the president for his intemperate remarks, Senator Marco Rubio expressed pity for the poor nation: “[T]he people of El Salvador and Haiti have suffered as the result of bad leaders, rampant crime and natural disasters.” Rubio omitted to note that one of the biggest disasters to befall El Salvador—one that created hundreds of thousands of refugees even before the post-earthquake wave—was man-made, with the United States, not nature, being a major force.
It was a civil war of the 1980s, one that pitted leftist revolutionaries against the alliance of countries, oligarchs, and generals that had ruled the country for decades—with U.S. support—keeping peasants illiterate and impoverished. It was a bloody, brutal, and dirty war. More than 75,000 Salvadorans were killed in the fighting, most of them victims of the military and its death squads. Peasants were shot en masse, often while trying to flee. Student and union leaders had their thumbs tied behind their backs before being shot in the head, their bodies left on roadsides as a warning to others.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
'"US-fueled"
This guy seems to have a selective memory when it comes to the Civil war in El Salvador. He lays the blame for what happened in that country solely on the US and not once is mentioned the role that both Cuba and Sandinista Nicaragua played in that country during the same time. Like the fact that they were the ones who instigated the civil war in the first place.
Going back to 1980, prior to that year the El Salvador had a reformist coup setting the path for democratic reform and anti-government guerrillas were nothing more than a bunch of ineffective groups that numbered in the hundreds and who often fought with each other. As well as that their activities were limited primarily to occasional assassinations, bombings and to get funds for themselves would engage in bank robberies and kidnappings. Then came the Sandinista victory in Nicaragua in 1979 and a year later (when the civil war started) they along with Cuba would unify the communist groups in El Salvador to form the FMLN, supplied them with modern arms(with the help of communist Vietnam), equipment and training as well as a base of operations in Nicaragua in order for them to overthrow the Government of El Salvador(this constitutes as an armed attack by another nation in international law). That was when the violence would spiral out of control, resulting in 1980 as its most violent year(there was no US military aid at this time) and not only that there was the FMLN's campaign of economic sabotage which by 1985 resulted in war damages of over one billion dollars.
This was the reason why the US supported El Salvador at that time.
Yes there were right wing death squads that did a lot of killing also, but the fact of the matter is the violence in that country would never have gotten as bad as it did without the involvement of Cuba and Nicaragua.
As for claims the US backed death squads and a right wing death squad government in that country, Not only did Reagan do no such thing but he supported its transition to democracy. Such as professionalising their armed forces(which included improving human rights practices) so that they could effectively combat the FMLN and bring the civilian populace to their side and protect polling booths which came under attack by the communist guerrillas who weren't exactly keen on the democratic process, threatening aid suspensions to halt right wing death squads attacks, as well as backing the Christian Democrats against the far right ARENA party. Even going as far as covertly sending $1,000,000 to Jose Duarte's presidential campaign.'
Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets like the Atlantic. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
Wow, El Salvador sounds like quite a shithole.
Why can’t H->!, Pelosi and Schmuckie and the UN fix El Salvador?
“...More than 75,000 Salvadorans were killed in the fighting, most of them victims of the military and its death squads...”
Wrong! Most were killed by the FMLN and its bloodthirsty Communists.
What sort of people did the FMLN kill? People like Francisco Peccorini who was 72 years old and working to expose Leftist lies at the National University. People like the young poet and Engineer Gabriel Payes. People like the elderly father of Colonel Escuniga who grew up so poor he never had shoes before young adulthood. The list is endless.
What sort of people were killed by the much maligned Policia de Hacienda? Communists who attacked.
I was there.
But just think.
If we hadn’t fought the Communists in El Salvador, it would be a workers paradise today.
Like. Venezuela.
Send all these aliens (apparently somehow still suffering from trembles of 17 years ago) back to their crappy country. Supposedly, they are making the USA better somehow. If that is true, they must hate their home country. Send them back to make that sh**-hole better. Get OUT!
Which of course is the reason they are flooding our country {SAR}
The way Liberals carry on, you would think “Mexico, ElSalvador, etc” was Spanish for “Auschwitz”
Hat tip to a Freeper. I remember the line, not who wrote it.
Contra-fiction...
What they really mean is “Its wrong to send these hardened criminals back to El Salvador.”
Can we do an article on The Atlantic’s Role in Journalism’s Deterioration?
Another lying, blame-everything-on-the-United-States, leftist trying to rewrite history and make excuses for the horrible government of a sh!thole country.
What you wrote and what the article wrote are 2 completely different opinions on the exact same topic.
It just goes to show how slanted the media truly truly is.
I hope everybody reads the article and then your response.
Good job.
I guess it’s only fair that we give them our country.........../s
My favorite paragraph in their article was
The U.S.-fueled war drove tens of thousands of Salvadorans to flee the violence for safety in the United States. In the mid-90s, Clinton allowed their “temporary protected status” to expire. This decision contributed to the gang violence that marks El Salvador today—not long ago, when a day passed without a murder, it was banner news. Thousands of the refugees sent back were young men, who had either deserted from the army or the guerrillas during the war. And when they got back to El Salvador, with little beyond their fighting skills, they formed the nucleus of the gangs.
I guess we Americans were supposed to keep these deserters and guerrillas with their fughting skills here on our streets.
I want no DACA, let it expire and start deporting.
Democratic Reform = Communist Takeover.
References For Further Study:
Sandinistas, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Barack Obama
“Democratic Reform = Communist Takeover.”
So why did the Cubans, Sandinistas & FMLN try to sabotage that then?
thank you for the perspective,Monterrosa-24
The Leftists defend these places, and then they insult them to the max.
I don’t think they have a clue what is really going on.
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