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With all the trouble at the border, I have to wonder why we are demonizing those risking their lives crossing the desert after a month of dangerous travel from as far as Nicaragua and elsewhere. They are leaving a country dominated by a violent drug trade that threatens their very lives, and we never discuss the United States foreign policy that created the mess in the first place. This policy that overthrew countless democratic governments, threw people off their land and gave that land to American Fruit company and other American interests. Our foreign policy created a banana republic dominated by poverty, dictatorship, and corruption. Children are recruited into drug cartels and if they refuse their families are threatened or they are killed or both. Who wouldn't head for the US border under such conditions? Why is this never mentioned when we talk about immigration? Is it because the people who own all media don't want that subject discussed? If our schools were allowed to teach our actual history with all its warts, I know for a fact we wouldn't be demonizing those looking for a better life. We would be more understanding. And perhaps a little ashamed of our past. There's a lot to be ashamed of. But it's way more shameful to pretend it didn't happen, wrap ourselves in the flag, and pretend we are better than everyone else. Especially if they are dark colored.
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