US Drug Policy and the Border Child Immigration Crisis

“The majority of the child immigrants are coming from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Those Northern Triangle countries suffered not only devastating civil wars in the 1980s, with the US supporting conservative, often dictatorial governments (or, in the case of Honduras, serving as a platform against the government in Nicaragua), but also chronic poverty and income inequality.  They are also the countries feeling the brunt of the expansion of powerful Mexican drug trafficking organizations who, in response to increased pressure from the Mexican government (assisted by US aid under the Merida agreement) began pushing south into the region around 2008.”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2014/jul/19/us_drug_policy_and_border_immigration

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