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Cruz blames Obama for influx of Central and South American Child Immigrants. (Original Post) DhhD Jun 2014 OP
Poor Ted, he can't afford a newspaper to learn what is happening in Central America. Thinkingabout Jun 2014 #1
So it's Obama's fault that Cruz got here? hobbit709 Jun 2014 #2
The War Against Guatemalan Women and Girls DhhD Jun 2014 #3
Abbott and Cruz grandstanding on the boarder blaming Obama instead of helping children fleeing for DhhD Jun 2014 #4

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. Poor Ted, he can't afford a newspaper to learn what is happening in Central America.
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 06:29 PM
Jun 2014

I was talking to a RWer and she was complaining about the immigration problems, she has a maid from El Salvador and her son has a nanny from Honduras, I told her I thought about these parents sending their children to the US is what Moses' mother did, hid Moses in the bushes and he was founded nd and raised by Egyptians but his mother was his nanny. The mothers in Central America are trying to keep their kids alive. She had not thought of it.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
3. The War Against Guatemalan Women and Girls
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 11:11 AM
Jun 2014
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/06/20/3450611/guatemalan-girls/

Jorge Velásquez refuses to allow his daughter’s death to become “another murder statistic.”

Claudina Isabel Velásquez was raped, shot in the head, and dumped in an alley in Guatemala City in 2005, one of 665 women killed in Guatemala that year. Her case, like nearly all of the others, was never solved. But almost a decade after her death, Jorge’s constant fight to keep Claudina’s case open has made her a symbol for increasing violence against Guatemalan women and girls. It’s the same violence that’s spurring more and more unaccompanied young girls to leave Guatemala and attempt to cross the U.S. border.

Last year, 759 women were murdered in Guatemala, a 7 percent increase from the year before. A terrible new report divides the deaths into causes: 522 deaths from firearms, 70 from stabbings, 156 from asphyxiation, 11 from decapitation or dismemberment.
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