Look to U.S. decades-long policies driving Central American Migration

Conditions causing Impoverishment, Pain, Debt, Displacement

U.S. Atrocities, Fallout, Responsibility

Despite cries and lies of a Central American “invasion”— this is not an invasion from Central America but arguably an migration because of U.S. invasion of Central of American countries.

There are ALWAYS preexisting conditions, prior happenings, driving forces, underlying causes inherent in current events. But U.S. mass media and mendacious government officials would rather deny and dissemble than own up to and take responsibility for the wrongs of this America, the United States of America.There seems an absence of courage and humility necessary to amend the ways and character of U.S. policy and to right the wrongs of the past and present.

Some Causes Underlying Migration

Cole Kazdin reporting

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t is impossible to view domestic immigration and immigration policy “without examining the U.S. foreign policy roots of the current crisis.”

“Why don’t Central Americans just stay in their own countries?”

Because, for decades, the United States of America (its leadership) has “put itself on the wrong side of” Central Americans’ “struggles.” The U.S. has stymied the progress of Central Americans through a variety of tactics of interference including invasion, corruption, regime change, displacement, offensive occupation—all the while blaming and demeaning Central Americans for failing to make unhampered progress; for not staying in their countries and bettering their lives.

Some of the U.S. policy causes

U.S. CIA 1954: “helped organize a military coup to overthrow Guatemala’s democratically elected government, and continued to train the Guatemalan military well into the 1970s.” Some “200,000” Guatemalans died, hundreds of thousands were displaced” in a “36-year-long civil war (1960-1996),” a reign of terror was intent on “destroying people’s vision of the future.”

Richard Nixon-era (1971 - ): a drug war that “pushed cartels from Colombia into an increasingly unstable and impoverished Central America.” “Government-linked organized crime networks” rose “out of the counterinsurgency experience of the 1980s.” Hundreds of thousands fled “violence, massacres and political persecution that the United States was funding directly or, at the very minimum, covering up and excusing” (Professor Elizabeth Oglesby)

Cold War Reagan era: “Under the umbrella of the Cold War,” the United States “amplified its presence in (Central America)…, especially El Salvador.…” Ever since the Cold War, the United States has been “complicit in creating rampant and bloody gang violence, dire poverty, displacement and migration from El Salvador.”

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he United States has been “complicit in the creation of the conditions of forced migration” and given these historical acts and conditions, Xochitl Sanchez told Kazdin, the United States of America “has a moral and social responsibility to this (Central American) population of immigrants.”

IMF, World Bank, Debt, Fallout, Responsibility

Author of Optimizing America, Jarl Jensen writes:

“The United States’ habit of interfering in the affairs of other countries remains a known fact around the world. The rich history of the U.S. military and economic intervention in Central America weakened the region, causing them to become dependent on the United States.”

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he constant interference of the United States combined with the formation of the Bretton Woods Agreement, the IMF, the World Bank and CAFTA-DR negatively influenced the economy of Central America. Worsening the region’s economic condition was the ongoing interference from their neighbor and the formation of the 2004 Dominican Republic — Central America FTA (CAFTA-DR). All of this gave rise to drug cartels, violence, corruption, and a failing economy.

The Bretton Woods Agreement is the system for monetary and exchange rate management established on July 1, 1944, at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The agreement pegged currencies to the price of gold and perceived the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency connected to the price of gold.

From the agreement, emerged the IMF and the World Bank — two global institutions — thus fulfilling the aim of the meeting to ensure a foreign exchange system, promote economic development, and prevent competitive devaluations.

…When a country’s currency fell, other countries agreed to purchase their money in foreign markets at fixed exchange rates between the US dollar and their currency, thus preventing inflation and economic instability.

Third-world countries were unaware that “this agreement paved the way for the United States to assume dominance over other nations, who were asking for loans from the IMF and funds from the World Bank to rebuild their country.”

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hese conditions “led to an increase in illegal immigrants from Central America flooding the United States.” Now there are consequences all round but the United States is responsible for illegal immigrants from Central America crossing the border.

“And instead of instating the ‘Zero-tolerance Policy’ on unauthorized entry into the United States and detaining and separating parents and children from each other,” the United States “needs to reflect on its history, the root cause of refugee migration from Central America.…

Rewind the clock to see how (the United States of America) can make these wrongs right.” Then “take steps to resolve the issue of illegal immigrants from Central America coming to the United States to start their new life.

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he world would be better, safer and more humane if globalization meant that all economies thrived and (were) not subjugated by debt.”

Sources

VICE “The Violence Central American Migrants Are Fleeing Was Stoked by the US:

We’re still dealing with the aftermath of atrocities committed by US allies in Central America during the Cold War.” Cole Kazdin June 28, 2018 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvnyzq/central-america-atrocities-caused-immigration-crisis

Cole Kazdin is a Los Angeles based writer.

Xochitl Sanchez is part of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)

Dr. Elizabeth Oglesby is Associate Professor Latin American Studies faculty (University of Arizona)  with an interdisciplinary background in Latin American Studies, Geography, and Sociology and previous experience working for non-governmental organizations in Central America. Her research interests include globalization and labor issues, human rights, and Central America, especially Guatemala https://las.arizona.edu/user/elizabeth-oglesby

Medium “The Real Cause of Illegal Immigrants from Central America” Jarl Jensen August 6, 2018 https://medium.com/@jarljensensocial_76795/the-real-cause-of-illegal-immigrants-from-central-america-779954115311

Jarl Jensen is author of Optimizing America.

Wikipedia

The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) was first founded in Washington DC (1981) as a community-based organization seeking “to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community” in the Washington metropolitan region; two years later it was established in Los Angeles, California. “CARECEN provides direct services in immigration, housing and citizenship while also promoting empowerment, civil rights advocacy and civic training for Latinos.”  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America_Resource_Center

Jarl Jensen August 6, 2018 https://medium.com/@jarljensensocial_76795/the-real-cause-of-illegal-immigrants-from-central-america-779954115311

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