Editing and commentary by Carolyn Bennett
U.S. officials execute and provoke war and conflict, destroy
lives and place, displace millions and insult them with lectures, condescension and handouts. And if immigrants land on U.S. soil, they are met with xenophobia and more violence.
U.S. in Middle East
The death toll in Syria continues to rise. During Ramadan
this year, the numbers exceeded 4,400.
Syrians’ needs are so great, the Obama government’s Assistant Secretary
for Population, Refugees and Migration, Kelly Clements, admits, “…We cannot
keep up” with the need for “humanitarian”
assistance.
Of course, most same people know that arming groups to overthrow a nation’s government
or to depose a head of state or sending drones onto a country is not “humanitarian”
and is not helping the people of Syria or anywhere else.
Deep and lasting injury: U.S. foreign relations model in violence
throughout Middle East
3.5 million people are estimated to become Syrian refugees by
year’s end and will be in neighboring countries of Jordan (now hosting 454,000 registered
Syrian refugees), Lebanon (now hosting 564,000 registered Syrian refugees),
Turkey, Iraq and Egypt
…1.9 million are projected to be in
desperate need of assistance by year’s end
…6.8 million Syrians are currently
in need of humanitarian assistance
U.S. insult tops injury
In the face of another enormous tragedy the United States
helped create in and around Syria, the Obama government is reportedly promising
to make refugees jump through hoops well into next year and to consider and
maybe accept “2,000” out of millions of them.
“Responding to the rapidly deteriorating conditions,” RT is
reporting, the Obama government has agreed “to take in 2,000 Syrian war victims
who will be given permanent residence status ─ “a fraction of a percent of
Syrian refugees in need of assistance.”
U.S. State Department representative Kelly Clements is
reported saying, “Referrals will come within the next four months (and) we will
need to interview people and perform security and medical checks.” The U.S.
application process involves “extensive background screenings” and takes months
to complete.
U.S. in the Americas
Immigrants greeted with U.S. hostility
Virulent anti-immigrant acts not seen in nearly 100 years
The U.S.-based Southern Poverty Law Center reports U.S. “anti-immigrant
hate groups have proliferated since the late 1990s ─ when anti-immigration
xenophobia (irrational fear and hatred of
strangers or foreigners or of anything different or that is perceived ‘strange’
or ‘foreign’, when strange and foreign and different are themselves deemed bad or
deviant) began to rise to levels not seen in the United States since the
1920s.”
The “anti-immigrant” haters, SPLC says, “are the most
extreme of the hundreds of nativist
and vigilante groups.…
Although many groups criticize high
levels of immigration and some (categorized by the Southern Poverty Law Center
as ‘nativist extremist’ groups) typically confront or harass individual
immigrants and their supporters, anti-immigrant hate groups generally go
further by pushing racist propaganda.
Ignorance powers fear, bigotry, hatred
Neighbors, fellow human beings become and create enemies
In the case of “Americans,’” one salient article reads, “the distinction between Latin America and
Anglo-America is a convention based
on predominant languages in the Americas by which Romance-language and
English-speaking cultures are distinguished.
“Neither area is
culturally or linguistically homogeneous. …
Though the SPLC’s frame of U.S. anti’s has mainly focused on anti-Latin Americans, the United
States has a hostile, xenophobic attitude toward the world’s peoples. 
And considering the United States’ depressed educational and
health systems, its corrupt government and inept governing, its neglect of the public
good as it drains the country’s energy and wealth in one after foreign war and manufactured
crisis ─ the rational course of action would be to recall the current governors and to throw
out the entrenched U.S. foreign relations model. Take care of home and stop engaging in and provoking
violence around the world.
Sources and notes
“U.S. ready to accept thousands of Syrian refugees,” August
9, 2013,
http://rt.com/usa/usa-syria-refugees-thousands-309/
“U.S. to let in 2,000 Syrian refugees ─ The United States
has for the first time decided to let nearly 2,000 Syrian refugees for
permanent resettlement in America, a report says,” August 10, 2013 http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/10/318081/us-to-let-it-2000-syrian-refugees/
“Anti-Immigrant,” http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/anti-immigrant
“Essay: The Anti-Immigrant Movement” by Heidi Beirich, http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/anti-immigrant/the-anti-immigrant-movement
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit civil rights
organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for
the most vulnerable members of society.
Founded by civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph Levin
Jr. in 1971, the SPLC is internationally known for tracking and exposing the
activities of hate groups.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is based in Montgomery, Alabama,
the birthplace of the modern civil rights movement, and has offices in Atlanta,
New Orleans, Miami, Florida and Jackson, Mississippi. http://www.splcenter.org/who-we-are
LATIN AMERICA
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Argentina
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Bolivia
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Brazil
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Chile
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Colombia
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Costa
Rica
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Cuba
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Dominican
Republic
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Ecuador
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El
Salvador
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Guatemala
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Haiti
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Honduras
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Mexico
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Nicaragua
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Panama
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Paraguay
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Peru
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Uruguay
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Venezuela
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“The distinction between Latin America and Anglo-America is
a convention based on the predominant languages in the Americas by which
Romance-language and English-speaking cultures are distinguished. Neither area
is culturally or linguistically homogeneous. …
In contemporary usage, “Latin America refers to territories
in America where the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail: Mexico, most of
Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, Cuba, the Dominican Republic,
and Puerto Rico – in summary, Hispanic America and Brazil.…
“In a more literal definition, which remains faithful to the
original usage, Latin America designates all of those countries and territories
in the Americas where a Romance language (i.e., languages derived from Latin,
and hence the name of the region) is spoken:
Spanish, Portuguese, and French,
and the creole languages based upon these. Considering this definition, Quebec,
in Canada, is technically part of Latin America as well. But this region is
rarely considered so, since its history, distinctive culture, economy,
geographical location and British-inspired political institutions are generally
deemed too closely intertwined with the rest of Canada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America
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