One of the things that struck me in the article I mentioned below was the mention of Nicaraguans fleeing the more than 300 murders in the country since April. If that’s the case there are certain sections of the United States I would suggest they avoid. Chicago, with a third the population of Nicaragua, has had that many homicides over the same period.
Maybe Chicago needs a caravan.
I’ve also thought that Central Americans may have a skewed picture of life in the U.S. It varies a lot region by region, but if they get their perspective from broadcast TV or movies, they may be seeing through rose colored glasses. Earlier immigrants came looking for streets paved with gold and found instead low paying sustenance labor.
Yes.
At least parts of it are shitholes, and as I have noted previously, they need suitcases and U-Hauls.
I hear Marin county is a lovely place to live. I am sure that the residents would welcome migrants from Chicago or Honduras. At least if they are willing to work off-the-books and less than the minimum wage.
And what is it that make some people flee evil, and others stand and fight? Part of the answer has to be having somewhere to flee to.
The other part that comes to mind is that strong, brave men are not common, but they are visible, and the war on drugs has most of them in Central America, and in the ghetto, dead or in prison.
Studies of elephants have shown that adolescent males without elder males in the population kill and rampage randomly, but stop that behavior when adult males are re-introduced.
The war on drugs escalates violence because it removes the very men that are able to control it, and leaves wave after wave of teenage wannabes shooting it up to reach the vacant top position. And when they do, they become visible to law enforcement, and are targeted and removed. So the war IN drugs never ends.
Education, prevention, treatment, social stigmas. Basically, treat the drug problem the way we treat the alcohol problem.
For the sake of our southern neighbors.
Here’s an idea Dave:
https://babylonbee.com/news/caravan-of-liberal-americans-makes-way-toward-socialist-paradise-of-venezuela
Funny for what it is. Helps to remember though the no one on the left wants pure socialism and no one on the right wants pure capitalism.
Steve