What is forcing thousands of migrants to flee their home countries? | Michael Deibert
The United States is more to blame for its immigration problem than it would like to take credit for
The mass of humanity living in a makeshift encampment at the US border with Mexico is driven by historical forces of which many Americans are only dimly aware.
Demonized by Donald Trump as an “invasion” of miscreants who should be housed in concentration camp-like tent cities, the migrants, many of whom are in fact planning on applying for asylum, persist under the weight of a US history in their home countries as heavy as any burden they carry with them.
Though several caravans have made the trek to the United States over the last year, the one that attracted Trump’s attention left
