How Hillary, Obama and Congressional Republicans Worked Together to Create the Flood of Refugee Chil

[unhappycamper]

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How Hillary, Obama and Congressional Republicans Worked Together to Create the Flood of Refugee Children Into the U.S.
Foreign Policy
by Eric Zuesse | July 12, 2014 - 12:02pm

Frances Robles of The New York Times headlined on July 9th, "Fleeing Gangs, Children Head to U.S. Border" and reported:

More than half of the top 50 Central American cities from which children are leaving for the United States are in Honduras. Virtually none of the children have come from Nicaragua, a bordering country that has staggering poverty, but not a pervasive gang culture or a record-breaking murder rate. “Everyone has left,” Alan Castellanos, 27, the uncle of Anthony and Kenneth, said in an interview in late May. “How is it that an entire country is being brought to its knees?”

The answer to that question is remarkably clear, and it started actually in 2009.

In that year, a military coup, which was initiated by fewer than a dozen aristocratic or "oligarchic" families of Honduras, overthrew that country's popular and democratically elected progressive President Manuel Zelaya. As the present reporter has previously documented in detail, the then-Secretary-of-State Hillary Clinton immediately after the coup blocked the efforts of virtually all other nations' heads-of-state, they being opposed to the coup; and she also prevailed upon the then-dithering U.S. President Barack Obama to agree to provide crucially needed ongoing U.S. military and financial assistance to the coup-imposed government, for a long-enough period of time so that that government could finally become accepted internationally as the "legitimate government" of Honduras. This legitimation was done by means of the usual rigged "elections," in which the post-coup "interim government" was replaced by a head-of-state whom the voters selected from a pre-screened field of candidates whose every member was approved by the controlling council of oligarchs -- those very same ruling families who had overthrown Zelaya. The names of those families are included in my previous news-report, along with the details of how Clinton, Obama, and all congressional Republicans (then under the guidance of the head of the Heritage Foundation, the former U.S. Senator, Jim DeMint), propped up and sustained Honduras's dictators in power.

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So: if President Obama now, with this historical background, treats those desperate children as if they were merely economic migrants, not also refugees, then he will be culminating what he has already done to them, not moving to reverse it, but instead to seal their dooms. That’s a policy-choice he now has to make; and he will, yet again, be making it in conjunction with congressional Republicans, because congressional Democrats have pretty much been kept out of the picture on this matter (as, indeed, on many others). Straight along, the opposition to the Clinton-Obama-Republican policy on this has come only from Democrats.

[ColesCountyDem]

1. Not merely one-sided, but revisionist history, as well.

Zelaya was attempting to re-write the Honduran Constitution, so that he could succeed himself, something the Constitution forbid. His own party, the Honduran Supreme Court and a majority of his own government opposed him.

Further, the Obama administration acted in concert and in complete accord with the O.A.S., rather than acting unilaterally.

I wonder if the author was even able to keep a straight face, when writing that garbage?