{"id":35615,"date":"2018-06-29T06:24:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35615"},"modified":"2018-06-29T06:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:24:36","slug":"failed-economic-policies-have-contributed-to-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35615","title":{"rendered":"Failed Economic Policies Have Contributed to Asylum Seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Failed Economic Policies Have Contributed to Asylum Seekers<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Many of the families detained at the U.S.-Mexico border have lost their livelihoods as the result of reforms that benefit elites in the United States and Latin American countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As a Mexican American and a father of two young children I am horrified to see the cruelty being inflicted on thousands of families that haven\u2019t been as lucky as mine and have been separated at the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n

Feeling the heat from all sides, the president has reversed his separation policy and signed an executive order to keep families together.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t be fooled. The administration\u2019s immigration policy remains just as hateful \u2014 and hate-filled.<\/p>\n

Families seeking asylum will still be detained and we still need to see how long it will take for families to reunite. But we also need to stop the creation of policies that steals people\u2019s livelihoods \u2014 whether in Michigan or Michoacan, Mexico or Moraz\u00e1n in El Salvador.<\/p>\n

These families are less lucky than mine, because I chose<\/em> to migrate to the United States. Most of these families trying to cross by land do so because they have no choice<\/em>. They have been forced<\/em> to migrate from Mexico or Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador or other countries.<\/p>\n

These families have not chosen to come here because they like the USA lifestyle better than their own. These are families whose livelihoods have been destroyed by decades of failed economic policies led by the United States and the local elites of those countries, making their home countries dangerous and unlivable.<\/p>\n

It is very unfortunate that rarely 2 & 2 are put together in the debates about migration. First, the U.S. government created the conditions that lead to displacement and then it punishes those same families that have been displaced. Unfettered free trade agreements, along with privatization of public services, are at the center of the issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Failed Economic Policies Have Contributed to Asylum Seekers Many of the families detained at the U.S.-Mexico border have lost their livelihoods as the result of reforms that benefit elites in the United States and Latin American countries. As a Mexican American and a father of two young children I am horrified to see the cruelty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[20731,20730,20732,20729,1538],"class_list":["post-35615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-economic-policies","tag-inequality-org","tag-manuel-perez-rocha","tag-migrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35617,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615\/revisions\/35617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}