Friday, August 29, 2014

AoW #2: The Origins of the Border Crisis

Most migrants were from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but recently people have been crossing the Mexican Border illegally into the United States because Mexicans was looking for work. Mexico’s had the worst problem in the world for crime, drugs, and gangs until the government cracked down and eased the violence, I think it was a great improvement for the government and turned Mexico into a better country and less people started coming into America. The Mexico’s government crackdown has shifted the people back to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Gangs now have taken control of towns, murder and rape is happening, and they force families and businesses to pay protection money. I think Mexico needs to get a better upper hand on their people and this situation. Why doesn't Mexico put these people that are committing these crimes in jail? In the late 1990s, the United States passed a law to force immigrants/non-citizens to get green cards, but if the committed any crimes they had to be deported. I do not understand why these people would want to hurt or kill one another or better yet destroy their own country. Many of them come to the United States as small children, and were made to go back to their own countries and ended up banded together in criminal gangs. If they grew up in the United States to have a better life, why make these people leave if they weren't causing problems here? Some just clearly want a better life. Gangs are going up to store owners and demanding payments from them and stealing anything they want while raping, murdering, or killing them. How could these people be so cruel? That’s not the worst part about all this, El Salvador children as young as 7 years old are forced as lookouts or couriers for gangs, and if refused they would kill them. No kid that young should have to go through this. People have come to believe it was safer to risk an illegal journey over hundreds of miles than to stay, I agree with these people because they are just looking out for their safety and trying to find a better life. I mean could you blame them? What has happened to the society in this world?

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