Americans Needs to Face the Horror That Undocumented Children Have Experienced
Americans Needs to Face the Horror That Undocumented Children Have Experienced
Posted on Jul 18, 2014
By Sonali Kolhatkar
American flags and “Return to Sender” posters festooned the recent anti-immigrant demonstrations in the small Southern California town of Murrieta. The mostly white protesters practically frothed at the mouth at the idea of bus loads of brown children and women being processed at a facility in their midst.
The numbers of unaccompanied children coming to the U.S. primarily from Central American countries such as Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have increased significantly, with 50,000 having crossed into the States since October, some as young as 6 years old.
The fact that children are at the heart of this immigration crisis has not deterred activists like those in Murrieta whose nativist ideology seems to have inspired a similar action in Vassar, Mich., against the possibility of a local facility being used to house Central American children. In Vassar, some protesters even carried rifles and guns alongside their flags and their “Don’t Tread on Me” signs. Another small town named Oracle in Arizona also erupted in anti-immigrant hysteria over the prospect of migrant children being placed at a local school.
Most alarming is the armed white militia group called Operation Secure Our Border, whose leader has called on recruits to make their way to the southern border in preparation for a “military style operation.” As if that weren’t enough, the South Carolina chapter of the KKK is using bags of candy to lure recruits for its anti-immigrant program.
More:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/americans_needs_to_face_the_horror_that_undocumented_children_have_experien
