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{"id":3197,"date":"2018-06-26T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthrohealth.net\/blog\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2018-06-26T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:48:36","slug":"central-american-refugee-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthrohealth.net\/blog\/central-american-refugee-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Central American Refugee Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current US administration is deliberately conflating Central American refugees fleeing terror with economic immigrants.\u00a0 AG Sessions has even decided that gang violence and domestic abuse do not equate to terror in order to justify sending refugees back to the countries from which they&#8217;ve fled.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cfrd8-files.cfr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large_xl\/public\/image\/2018\/01\/CentralAmerica2014_v1_2018update.jpg?resize=474%2C286&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"474\" height=\"286\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terror in Central America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The actions of the administration finally hit the consciousness of Americans and the World when we became aware of the policy to take children from their parents, sending them hundreds of miles away, making contact difficult, if not impossible.\u00a0 The backlash forced a backtrack on that policy, but it now appears that the children are being used as bargaining chips and hostages.\u00a0 If the parents want to be re-united with their children, they must give up their legitimate claims to asylum and be sent back to the terror from which they fled.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the conditions in Central America that are creating refugees and the stories of several refugees, check out this website on the <a href=\"https:\/\/refugeecrises.blogspot.com\/p\/central-america.html\">Central American Refugee Crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/anthrohealth.net\/blog\/central-american-refugee-crisis\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current US administration is deliberately conflating Central American refugees fleeing terror with economic immigrants.\u00a0 AG Sessions has even decided that gang violence and domestic abuse do not equate to terror in order to justify sending refugees back to the countries from which they&#8217;ve fled. The actions of the administration finally hit the consciousness of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anthrohealth.net\/blog\/central-american-refugee-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Central American Refugee Crisis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16,293],"tags":[296,297,278,295,277,294],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YcBF-Pz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2384,"url":"https:\/\/anthrohealth.net\/blog\/refugee-crises\/","url_meta":{"origin":3197,"position":0},"title":"Refugee Crises","author":"Kathleen Fuller","date":"January 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"As an Anthropologist, I try to create activities and projects for students in my college classes that encourage them to learn more about themselves and others.\u00a0 Last semester, I decided to take that a step further by having the students do a Capstone Project that would also serve the community.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adaptation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adaptation","link":"https:\/\/anthrohealth.net\/blog\/category\/adaptation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/ZXVoYE9JCllFAiTPY7n_qvQkbjg=\/950x534\/filters:quality(90)\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F499927%2F2c00dfa3-4d10-47f9-b939-94e2bef1bc38.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/ZXVoYE9JCllFAiTPY7n_qvQkbjg=\/950x534\/filters:quality(90)\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F499927%2F2c00dfa3-4d10-47f9-b939-94e2bef1bc38.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/ZXVoYE9JCllFAiTPY7n_qvQkbjg=\/950x534\/filters:quality(90)\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F499927%2F2c00dfa3-4d10-47f9-b939-94e2bef1bc38.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/ZXVoYE9JCllFAiTPY7n_qvQkbjg=\/950x534\/filters:quality(90)\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F499927%2F2c00dfa3-4d10-47f9-b939-94e2bef1bc38.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":687,"url":"https:\/\/anthrohealth.net\/blog\/inequality-faultlines\/","url_meta":{"origin":3197,"position":1},"title":"Inequality Faultlines","author":"Kathleen Fuller","date":"September 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently finished The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi. \u00a0Instead of paraphrasing Taibbi's words, I've decided to post a number of what I consider the most pertinent quotes from this extremely important book. \"We [Americans] have a profound hatred of the weak\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adaptation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adaptation","link":"https:\/\/anthrohealth.net\/blog\/category\/adaptation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1e\/Chuetsu_earthquake-earthquake_liquefaction1.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":195,"url":"https:\/\/anthrohealth.net\/blog\/dna-and-race\/","url_meta":{"origin":3197,"position":2},"title":"DNA and Race","author":"Kathleen Fuller","date":"June 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I just finished reading DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America by Bryan Sykes. \u00a0This is a very odd book. \u00a0I was expecting to read a major genetic analysis of population diversity in the US. \u00a0Instead, it is more a travel log of Sykes' tour of American landmarks with a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adaptation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adaptation","link":"https:\/\/anthrohealth.net\/blog\/category\/adaptation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":662,"url":"https:\/\/anthrohealth.net\/blog\/natural-parenting\/","url_meta":{"origin":3197,"position":3},"title":"Natural Parenting","author":"Kathleen Fuller","date":"July 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I define \"Natural Parenting\" as that which humans did for at least 2 million years and which, until recently, most modern foragers also did. \u00a0If this type of parenting worked successfully for millions of years, maybe we 'moderns' should think about modifying modern life to better incorporate natural parenting. 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