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The Violence Driving Migration Isn’t Just Gangs

Although the world may be safer today, complicit states contribute to violence throughout the world.

published by
Wall Street Journal
 on November 9, 2018

Source: Wall Street Journal

Why are thousands of Central Americans marching toward our southern border, despite the presidential tweets and now U.S. troops arrayed against them? Like previous generations of migrants, some are seeking economic opportunity. But many are trying to cross because they are fleeing violence so severe that they feel they have no choice. Their very public group effort is an attempt to evade the rape, kidnapping and extortion by smugglers that commonly beset undocumented migrants who cross Mexico on solitary journeys.

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