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"Here's How The U.S. Sparked A Refugee Crisis On The Border, In 8 Simple Steps"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/refugee-crisis-border_n_5596125.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&ir=Politicssorry about the source, it was a link in my alt-weekly
The 57,000 children from Central America who have streamed across the U.S.-Mexico border this year were driven in large part by the United States itself. While Democrats and Republicans have been pointing fingers at each other, in reality the current wave of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras has its roots in six decades of U.S. policies carried out by members of both parties.
Since the 1950s, the U.S. has sown violence and instability in Central America. Decades of Cold War gamesmanship, together with the relentless global war on drugs, have left a legacy of chaos and brutality in these countries. In many parts of the region, civil society has given way to lawlessness. It's these conditions the children are escaping.
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7 The U.S. Escalates The Drug War
U.S. soldiers remain at Palmerola Air Base, near Comayagua, Honduras, on May 8, 2013.
The vast majority of cocaine consumed in the United States is produced in Colombia. In the 1990s, the U.S. and Colombian governments, operating together under a security pact called “Plan Colombia,” decimated Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels and broke up Caribbean transit routes. So power shifted to Mexican cartels. In 2006, with the backing of the U.S., Mexico launched an all-out war on its cartels. The war has left more than 70,000 dead and severely undermined the Mexican people's faith in their government.
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rest of article at link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/refugee-crisis-border_n_5596125.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&ir=Politics
Since the 1950s, the U.S. has sown violence and instability in Central America. Decades of Cold War gamesmanship, together with the relentless global war on drugs, have left a legacy of chaos and brutality in these countries. In many parts of the region, civil society has given way to lawlessness. It's these conditions the children are escaping.
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7 The U.S. Escalates The Drug War
U.S. soldiers remain at Palmerola Air Base, near Comayagua, Honduras, on May 8, 2013.
The vast majority of cocaine consumed in the United States is produced in Colombia. In the 1990s, the U.S. and Colombian governments, operating together under a security pact called “Plan Colombia,” decimated Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels and broke up Caribbean transit routes. So power shifted to Mexican cartels. In 2006, with the backing of the U.S., Mexico launched an all-out war on its cartels. The war has left more than 70,000 dead and severely undermined the Mexican people's faith in their government.
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rest of article at link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/refugee-crisis-border_n_5596125.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&ir=Politics
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Alex Jones thinks that these refugees are coming over the border because Obama is using them in an effort to create a private army to "take our guns away". Right. 
