Execution by a lack of compassion

I read that a 7 year old child died Wednesday while in custody of Border Patrol.....a 7 year old. The girl and her father had apparently been detained by Border Patrol 8 hours prior for "illegally" crossing the border. She and a group of 163 refugees from Guatemala had arrived at the border Dec. 6. They approached agents and simply turned themselves in, there was no violence, they didn't angrily demand entry, they just turned themselves in with the hopes that they would be given the opportunity to become citizens here. These people flee the desperate conditions they live in in their home countries, countries that ironically enough had events transpire in them that was spurred by our country, and several decades later the result has been economic and social conditions so horrid that millions every year flee their countries to escape the suffering.

This poor child died from a combination of shock and dehydration, and had been in custody for at least 6 hours prior to her death. It was learned the she had not eaten or had water to drink for several days, which begs the question were these people even offered anything? Are they simply being rounded up like cattle and locked away? How desperate are these people that they willingly travel thousands of miles, at times without food or water for potentially days? They're willing to sacrifice their lives for a better life for themselves and their children here. Just as any one of us who is a parent desires better than what we had for our children, they desire the exact same. The striking difference is that they've become so desperate from suffering in their home countries that they're willing to risk everything they love and hold dear.

A child...just a year younger than my older daughter, a year older than my younger. I can't imagine the pain felt by her father let alone imagine his pain if that's his only child. The main reason he risked everything is now gone, it's heartbreaking to me, and I don't know of any person who has the slightest inkling of compassion that wouldn't feel the same. Has the light that was a beacon of hope for the tired, poor, and huddled masses faded?

Richard Trotsky

Caravan Concerns

Trump made it an issue and so the media covers it: the caravan of immigrants heading for the US southern border.
He's stoking up all the fear he can and the media is not telling us the full story of why these people are fleeing their countries.

To understand why they are fleeing,  we must look at US policy towards these countries.

We must look at how the US intervenes in their internal politics and over throws democratically elected governments and puts in puppets that do what the US & and its corporate masters want them to do.

We have to look at the US trained, armed, &  backed death squads that act with impunity throughout their countries. We need to look at the countless number of murderered innocent people that haunt the memories of their families. 

We need to look at the US firms that throw farmers off their lands. Where are these people to go and what are they to do?

They all try to come here because we bill ourselves as the land of opportunity. The land of the free and the  home of the brave. And you know all the propaganda.

The media fail us that they look at the caravan as a cause. Just like trump wants them to.

They need to see it as an effect of US foreign policy.
But that would be biting the hands of the corporations that buy advertising in their organizations.
You know the rule: Money talks. Too loudly.

Dig into Democracy Now, the Real News Network, and other indie news meida to find out the truth.
Read Open Veins of Lati  America and many  other books on the topic.
Learn about Operation Condor.

Educate yourself on the truth because the media won't.

And then you will see the caravan as what it really is: a group of victims of US foreign policy  demanding justice.