they are fleeing a place where the government, military, and police are packed to the brim with drug traffickers.
but like ok so what so is america
yeah but the place they're fleeing has no functional court system currently. anybody can kill anybody at this point and nobody will hold them accountable. "shooting a couple" would do next to nothing to deter them as the majority have likely already seen some of their friends and family murdered.
gangs(probably police & military as well) run around taking money from families and small business' or they kill them if they don't oblige. they rape the daughter. they force the son to join them. etc. the whole place is in ruins.
and you're like oh word but thats their country they should figure that out, not our problem
true except the CIA helped overthrow their democratically elected leader a decade ago to install basically a dictator drug trafficker and that is the actual reason everything is like this now so.
not only is it partly our fault the place these people were born into or have been living in their whole lives is now completely wrecked and became some of the most dangerous places in the world, they're coming to us desperate as fuck for help and we're unnecessarily dehumanizing them to make money off of their peril.
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