The U.S. Media And Political Class Are Underestimating The Massive Migration Crisis That Is Growing In Latin America

Robert Muggah, Maiara Folly and Adriana Abdenur, Americas Quarterly: The Stunning Scale of Latin America's Migration Crisis

The immigration emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border is just the tip of the iceberg.

The images of children being forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border are shocking by any standard. At least 2,300 children have been separated from their parents over the past two months alone, many of them fleeing unspeakable violence in Mexico and Central America. Their parents have been marched to detention centers where they languish for weeks. Stories are emerging of breastfeeding babies, toddlers, adolescents and teenagers penned up in cages. There are another 10,700 unaccompanied minors also languishing in U.S. custody.

As grim as the domestic situation is, it is just the tip of the international iceberg.

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WNU Editor: As I had mentioned in the previous post, instead of fixing their own country many of these migrants have made the decision to come to the U.S. and Canada with the expectation that they and their families will be taken care of. I can understand the U.S. and Canada taking care of some of these migrants .... but when you look at the sheer magnitude of people who want to come .... literally tens of millions in Latin America alone .... there is no way that the U.S. and Canadian social net can take care of that many people without seriously cutting back the services that it offers to its own citizens. For the moment many on the left, the media, and the Democrat Party support the policy of open borders and the decriminalization of migrants trying to enter the U.S.. But there is going to be a breaking point where many Americans are going to rebel from this policy (even more than what it is today). I give it two more years.

Update: Victor Davis Hanson has sized up what is happening in Mexico, and how it will impact the U.S. .... Mexico — What Went Wrong? (Victor Davis Hanson, NRO).