{"id":17899,"date":"2018-11-26T13:12:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17899"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:28:36","slug":"central-american-nations-abandon-all-logic-in-latest-legal-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/11\/26\/central-american-nations-abandon-all-logic-in-latest-legal-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Central American Nations Abandon All Logic in Latest Legal Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras recently filed a protest\u00a0<\/a>against the United States with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights<\/a> (IACHR). The protest petition alleges the Trump administration\u2019s prohibition on illegal aliens applying for asylum violates the human rights of the petitioning states\u2019 citizens. (Mexico has also joined in the protest but for reasons specific to its own political situation, which will not be addressed here.) Sadly, this is only the latest in a series\u00a0<\/a>of absurd legal actions\u00a0<\/a>connected with the migrant caravan.<\/p>\n

Yes, you read that correctly. El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras \u2013 the NorthernTriangle countries \u2013 are complaining because the U.S. won\u2019t allow people to lodge fraudulent allegations of political persecution against them. It\u2019s roughly akin to a criminal defendant kvetching because the judge dismissed all charges and set him free.<\/p>\n

So, what\u2019s really going on here?<\/h2>\n

To begin with the nations of the\u00a0Northern Triangle all have failing economies. All three countries could benefit from a further infusion of stable currency. And the best source for hard cash is remittance payments made by Northern Triangle citizens living abroad. \u00a0Money sent home by migrants makes up 19.5% of Honduras\u2019 GDP, 18.3% of El Salvador\u2019s and 11.5% of Guatemala\u2019s, according to Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean 2017<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

A study by the Pew Research Center<\/a>\u00a0indicates that that 80% of Salvadoran, Guatemalan and Honduran expatriates live in the United States. The inescapable conclusion: most of the money flowing into the Northern Triangle consists of American dollars earned from jobs in the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n

In addition, all three countries are on the brink of political collapse. If you\u2019re a sketchy leader trying to keep power in a failing state, the easiest way to avoid political change is to get rid of those willing to criticize the government. And encouraging immigration is a quick, bloodless way to export political troublemakers. That\u2019s why most members of the migrant caravans\u00a0<\/a>are young men<\/a>\u00a0(the demographic that typically spearheads violent revolution) \u2013 despite the mainstream media\u2019s insistence that there is a predominance of women and children.<\/p>\n

The Role of the IACHR<\/h2>\n

The evidence that El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras care more about shedding surplus population<\/a>\u00a0than protecting the human rights of their citizens is unmistakable. Countries who care about their people engage in direct diplomacy when confronted with a legitimate crisis. They ask friends and neighbors for assistance, rather than filing pointless protests in kangaroo courts like the IACHR.<\/p>\n

The IACHR is a component of the Organization of American States<\/a>\u00a0(a type of \u201cmini-UN\u201d for the Americas). Both entities are \u201cconsultative organizations\u201d with no real power, relics of failed globalist experiments by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And the very notion that Latin American states with questionable civil rights records can call the U.S. \u2013 with the freest and fairest justice system in the world \u2013 to account for human rights abuses is absolutely ridiculous.<\/p>\n

An Exercise in Political Theater<\/h2>\n

But, while the protest by the\u00a0Northern Triangle countries is clearly an exercise in political theater<\/a>, it demonstrates that parties both inside and outside the United States are intent on defeating the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement agenda<\/a>\u2013 for their own reasons. Those reasons don\u2019t necessarily coincide with the best interests of the caravan members. Even more troubling, they run directly contrary to the best interests of the American people.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why U.S. voters should be pushing Congress to support measures that put Americans first \u2013 like a border wall, the mandatory use of E-Verify and ending abuses of our overly generous asylum system.