Social Why does the US have a responsibility to take care of poor Central Americans?

[Here's the thing]

If the US has a goal of taking care of those suffering in other parts of the world, why don't we focus on those who are suffering the most? There are many African countries where people are far worse off than those in central America. There are also many more people living in abject poverty in Asia and India. Why don't we prioritize them over Central Americans?

Sure, the US would have to pay for their flights to the US, but that would be a very small amount relative to the amount of help we'd be giving those who really need it. Do people and families in Central America get preference solely because they are closer to the US, and we don't have to pay for their travel expenses to get here?

 

[SaiWa]

This is how a right wing lunatic thinks...

LOL.

 

[Badger67]

Im not sure you get it.

 

[Here's the thing]

This is how a right wing lunatic thinks...

LOL.

So you're too fucking stupid to answer the question?

Leftist Pussy Tactics 101: Avoid the question, attack the person asking it.

 

[Le Mercenaire]

America have a lot of money and these poor people want free education, health care and food. It’s natural someone has to pay that bill. Liberals in America spoke during the last election and that’s what they want. Sharing their tax dollars.

 

[Voodoo_Child906]

Are you old enough to remember the Reagan Doctrine and what we did to them??

 

[I am your real dad]

Liberals don't care about helping people in America.
Especially if their white and work. "Just give us your tax money you worked for you privileged bigots and get back in that coal mine!"

 

[Trotsky]

So you're too fucking stupid to answer the question?

Leftist Pussy Tactics 101: Avoid the question, attack the person asking it.

We largely pushed their countries into ruin by overthrowing their governments and funding civil wars.

Also, our country has an ongoing role in being the primary funding for the drug trade that passes through their borders to get to us.

Also, there are international laws for refuge and asylum.

America have a lot of money and these poor people want free education, health care and food. It’s natural someone has to pay that bill. Liberals in America spoke during the last election and that’s what they want. Sharing their tax dollars.

No idea why they would come here for free healthcare and free education. Not only do immigrants not get that here: citizens don't either.

 

[Here's the thing]

We largely pushed their countries into ruin by overthrowing their governments and funding civil wars.

Also, our country has an ongoing role in being the primary funding for the drug trade that passes through their borders to get to us.

Also, there are international laws for refuge and asylum.



No idea why they would come here for free healthcare and free education. Not only do immigrants not get that here: citizens don't either.

Yes. There absolutely are international laws for refugees and asylum seekers, but they obviously don't apply to Central Americans only.

And if it is true that America is responsible for the suffering of Central American people, why does the left never make that argument? You'd think they'd constantly be reminding Americans that we owe these other countries something, that we don't owe countries in, say, Africa, or Asia.

 

[Le Mercenaire]

We largely pushed their countries into ruin by overthrowing their governments and funding civil wars.

Also, our country has an ongoing role in being the primary funding for the drug trade that passes through their borders to get to us.

Also, there are international laws for refuge and asylum.



No idea why they would come here for free healthcare and free education. Not only do immigrants not get that here: citizens don't either.

Illegals don’t pay hospital bills and have all kinds of social nets and scholarships funds. I know a bunch of Haitians who got superior education for free via government handouts.

 

[Here's the thing]

Are you old enough to remember the Reagan Doctrine and what we did to them??

Never heard shit about it tbh. It's an interesting take though. I mean, the idea that Central Americans would have wonderful (or at least decent) countries with security and economic opportunity abounding, had American not fucked them over.

 

[bobgeese]

This is how a right wing lunatic thinks...

LOL.

^^^ This is how a welfare queen thinks.

 

[JonnyTsunami91]

There's a responsibility to turn Texas blue for the globalists. How any adult can accept the lib hypocrisy is beyond me.

 

[SaiWa]

^^^ This is how a welfare queen thinks.

says the Trump cheering racist supporter...

 

[Voodoo_Child906]

Never heard shit about it tbh. It's an interesting take though. I mean, the idea that Central Americans would have wonderful (or at least decent) countries with security and economic opportunity abounding, had American not fucked them over.

Who knows really but If you take a look at Costa Rica, a country we barely touched; they are stable and don't have a refuge crisis. Under Reagan and his war against communism we:

- Supported the legendary brutality of the Contras in Nicaragua
- Provided vital support to one of the bloodiest mass murderers in the hemisphere Roberto D'Aubuisson of El Salvador
- Supported Efrain Rios Montt of Guatemala who was later charged with Crimes Against Humanity

Along with his war on the Soviet sphere of influence he also began the War on Drugs and attacked the supply side (Latin America) and placed the responsibility for domestic drug use on the countries supplying the drugs.

Our past governments are at least partly responsible of the immigration crisis from Central America, I guess it's true that you reap what you sow.

 

[Confucamus]

I'd say yes to helping anybody in need because that is one of the more positive parts of human nature. Seeing a country with a population that has no access to running water or proper medical care in the modern era is a sad thing. I think America has a reasonable responsibility to help out other countries that are underdeveloped.

 

[ithinktheymad]

United Fruit Co.

 

[jx820]

Because of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act. Those are the most important laws relating to our obligations and how they must be administered.

The cliffs are: If someone shows up on your soil and requests refugee status, you have to at least hear them out. There is due process that must be followed.

So Central Americans are over represented in our assylum process because they can walk here set foot on our soil and request assylum. African refugees are typically not as capable of walking here. Technically we are probably breaking the law by trying to limit those applications.

 

[Beechwood]

The last few days I've watched a few shows on countries that are overly crowded and have lots of problems due to that.

It did have me wondering why are we allowing so many people into America. The liberal elites are often preaching to us about the need for a green environment, clean America. Yet having millions of more people into the country brings more environmental issues with it. It's one of those contradictions that makes little sense.

 

[Seano]

This is how a right wing lunatic thinks...

LOL.

What is? You seem to be responding to something no one said.