Posted on 09/03/2019 9:17:38 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Guatemalan Mayas do not migrate to the U.S. without knowing the deadly risks. A quarter century ago a common refrain was, ‘Migrants expect to find U.S. streets paved with gold.’ Studies revealed then that the poorest of the poor did not migrate because they did not have the resources to invest in it. Today, the poorest of the poor, knowing the infamous risks of ruthless gangs, unscrupulous narcotraffickers, insatiable swindlers, and predatory police, army officials, immigration officials, and train guards, pick up their entire families and start walking, riding trains, trucks, and boats, to seek refuge in a foreign, hostile land. Why? Survival and hope.
The recent Guatemalan national election, with only 42 percent of the electorate bothering to vote for two candidates previously involved in questionable dealings, confirms the lack of hope in the political process.
Why are Mayas without hope? Let me count the ways by examining the population with whom I have worked since 1990, the Ch’orti’ Maya, two of whom died on the border in the past year. First, they lack land for subsistence. Guatemala, a country in which much of the indigenous population partially subsists off the land, has long had extremely unequal land tenure. Meanwhile, the population attempting to live off their small slice of the pie has multiplied arithmetically over the past century and a half, with the overall national population climbing from 1.2 million in 1880 to an estimated 17 million today. Many such farmers have migrated either to clear forests in northern Guatemala and Honduras or to cities for work, but for the past few decades there are no forests left to colonize and employment is scarce.
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Get ready for the Guatemalan Mayas.
I had a Guatemalan Maya the other day and it was OK but I’ll take a Gyro over it any time.
The white sauce isn’t as good on a Maya.
(That last comment could be considered loaded. No pun intended)
Boiling that all down to the Readers Digest version:
Agrarian economy in a small country with a limited amount of land for farming. Growing population. Not everyone can grab a slice of land for subsistence farming so they’re forced to go wandering for a way to sustain themselves.
The answer is improved education and industrialization.
LOL
A with a reverse in theocratic dogma and an update in modern technique and antibiotics training they could turn out to be the world’s greatest cardiac surgeons.
If there was an adult height requirement of 5 feet, we could keep most of them out.
Guatemala is so “failed” it seems to be right up there with Somalia
Guatemalan state is notorious for being controlled by an anti-indigenous, sexist oligarchy, whose example infects the nation. Gender and sexual discrimination, particularly against homosexuals, is rampant,
You mean they’re proposing “land reform” (i.e. grabbing the land away from them that’s gots and giving to them that ain’t, Robert Mugabe-style).
Yeah, that never works.
The same Spanish-colonial inspired culture that took hold in Guatemala has prevailed in Mexico as well. The political class of Mexico knows that and they have no sympathy for the economically displaced in Guatemala, much less their own in places like Chiapas. So Mexico tries to pass the problem on to the U.S. so the landless in Guatemala and the landless in Mexico do not join forces and displace the political elites in both countries.
"Drowning in poverty" = "Sinko de Maya".
Poverty has always been a driving force for migration. But I wonder how much of the current whopping increase in migration is due to more poverty, vs how much is due to Soros-backed US leftist $$ buying local ads pushing migration as the answer to their problems, promising unlimited US taxpayer-supported womb-tomb care, providing bus transportation to the US border, running training sessions on how to lie your way in under the asylum rules, and so on.
And where is the money going to come from for that? The wealthy and powerful there have no incentive to change things.
99% of all immigration is for our freebies.
At which point they'll just move to Miami or the Caymans with their millions.
We are helping with industrialization, we import many things from Guatemala especially textiles and clothing that employs many Guatemalan citizens. I think their worst problem is corrupt government but most countries including ours are dealing with the same. We need to fix our own issues.
The thing is if we really try to help them, then we are horrible imperialists who interfere in their business and everything that is wrong or ever will be is our fault. I really think we need to mind our own business. The only thing we could do to really help is to throw out their government and install a replacement that suits us. That is very drastic and I don’t support doing that at all, though I have heard socialists say that is what we should do..yes antiwar socialists. That has not worked well for us in the past to get involved that way in other countries- horrible idea.
We need to stay out of it, and anyone living there that wants to move here needs to do it completely above board and legally immigrate. No one has the right to come here illegally for any reason. We have no obligation to citizens of other countries.
This is part of why we need a wall, we cannot and should not take on citizens from other countries just because they would rather be here for whatever reason.
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/guatemala
They need to stay where they are and learn to code.
Ha. Long time ago I went to Guatemala. I got paranoid because everyone was staring at me. I thought it was because I am an Orthodox Jew.
No, it was because I was 6’6” with a beard. They thought I was some mythical monster.
Yes I firmly believe people are being recruited from many countries and their travel is highly organized and paid for by Soros and others like him. I think it suits the political agenda of the socialists.
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