RE: Global Peace Index
August 19, 2019 at 5:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2019 at 6:02 pm by ReptilianPeon.)
Let's look at some factors that would compel people to travel hundreds or even thousands of KM from their homes to the USA, carrying little to nothing. I don't believe anybody would uproot themselves to make such a journey unless they were truly desperate. Some factors that I can see:
1. The failed war on drugs and gang violence the failed war on drugs creates.
2. Donald Trump cutting off aid to Central America (not suggesting you like the man)
3. Honduras (a country you left out in your original post) being a more violent place than even Iraq some years.
Honduras is still a very violent place, thanks to the failed war on drugs. I could go on. I see foreign aid as a way to provide opportunities for the less fortunate as it can help to build prosperity and means they are less inclined to leave.
1. The failed war on drugs and gang violence the failed war on drugs creates.
2. Donald Trump cutting off aid to Central America (not suggesting you like the man)
3. Honduras (a country you left out in your original post) being a more violent place than even Iraq some years.
I quote the article from the Spectator Wrote:And that ‘in 2012 and 2013, more people were murdered in Honduras than in Iraq, even though the population in Honduras is three times smaller’. Also that in 2012, there were 7,100 murders. That’s 598 per month, or ‘20 daily homicides,’ in a country with a population of 7,000,000. London, with a slightly higher population, has around one murder per day. Almost all murders in London lead to a trial. In Honduras 91 per cent don’t.
Honduras is still a very violent place, thanks to the failed war on drugs. I could go on. I see foreign aid as a way to provide opportunities for the less fortunate as it can help to build prosperity and means they are less inclined to leave.
