A caravan with 3,000 people desperate for work and had no other choice sought entrance into Mexico. Left on the bridge dividing the borders of Guatemala and Mexico but was stopped by Mexican federal police and fences. October 19, 2018, men, women and children stuck waiting on the bridge with no resources, food or water pushed and climbed the barrier- tearing it down. Fifty people managed to get through but were faced with pepper spray. Immigration agents slowly began letting small groups of people who are interested in applying for refugee status. Others got tired of waiting and jumped off the bridge into Suchiate River while others paid a wooden raft to take them back home. That same day, a Mexican marine official announced that there will be trucks coming to take the migrants into a humanitarian attention center in Tapachula, a border city but he didn’t announce when it will come.
On Thursday during Trump’s Arizona rally he responded by threatening to close the southern U.S border with Mexico and cutting off aid to Central America if the government of Mexico failed to deal with the situation.
Should the United States be watching from a distance or should they jump in and help? How could the U.S help this situation? Do you think Donald Trump response was appropriate?
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I think that a different issue than immigration can be taken from this event. Since there are so many immigrants wanting to go to the US, it can be reasonably assumed that they are unhappy with their current country's economy, government or society. With that being said, many of those immigrants would most likely in favor of changing their home countries to be more like the US. History repeats itself because this would look a lot like colonialization and unwanted intervention in other governments, but could this actually be justified now because many people want to immigrate to the US and want to live in that kind of society?
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