U.S. Military: More Counter-Narcotics Funding Will Help Stem Exodus of Children from Central America

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. Military: More Counter-Narcotics Funding Will Help Stem Exodus of Children from Central America

Posted by Bill Conroy - July 29, 2014 at 12:06 pm

Critics Argue Drug-War Money is Part of the Problem, Not the Solution

Some 58,000 migrant children, mostly Central Americans, have made the treacherous journey to the U.S. southern border alone over the past 10 months, but actions being considered by U.S. officials to combat the problem with more military and drug-war aid to their countries, critics warn, may worsen the violence that provokes this unprecedented exodus.

The number of unaccompanied children that have arrived at the U.S. border so far this fiscal year is up 106 percent from the same period a year earlier — with the total expected to reach 90,000 before Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year.

To put that latter number in perspective, it is nearly five times larger than the number of Border Patrol agents now stationed along the entire southern border.

The Obama administration paints the crisis as a humanitarian issue sparked by poverty, violence and the tug of family bonds. Congressional Republicans point the finger at the Obama administration’s lax enforcement of immigration laws.

More:
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2014/07/us-military-more-counter-narcotics-funding-will-help-stem-exodus-childr

[newfie11]

1. Fox guarding the hen house comes to mind

Just what South America needs.
More US so called help! We created this mess and I highly doubt we will fix it with the corruption we have going on.

[Alittleliberal]

2. Americans fund both sides of the drug war.

It can't be won.

[bemildred]

3. What a deeply stupid remark.

The drug war is the problem, it is not the solution to anything.

[Peace Patriot]

4. "...may worsen the violence"? "...MAY worsen the violence"??!!

There has never been a single situation anywhere, here or elsewhere, when the corrupt, murderous, failed U.S. "war on drugs" has NOT "worsened the violence"!

Some 58,000 migrant children, mostly Central Americans, have made the treacherous journey to the U.S. southern border alone over the past 10 months, but actions being considered by U.S. officials to combat the problem with more military and drug-war aid to their countries, critics warn, may worsen the violence that provokes this unprecedented exodus. --from the OP

I would have put this much more strongly. The U.S. "war on drugs" IS INTENDED TO worsen the violence, in order to further subjugate these countries and their people to U.S. military and corporate profiteering. That is the REAL purpose of the U.S. "war on drugs."

[Judi Lynn]

5. Before the people they didn't want were designated "drug traffickers" in these countries,

their parents, grandparents, etc. were designated "communists" or "leftists" or "supporters" or "subversives."

If drugs ever become legal, they may go right back to "leftists" again.

Any excuse to label people designated for state sanctioned murder will do.

[Bacchus4.0]

6. Violence in Colombia is at its lowest level in over 10 years but that is more due

to the internal policies and leadership in Colombia rather than the US drug war. Other than that notable exception, you are probably correct about the drug war contributing to increased violence. And the violence in Colombia was horrible in the 80s and 90s more akin to Venezuela and Honduras levels today.