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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
Okay. Here:
How Mexico's Drug Cartels Recruit Child Soldiers as Young as 11:
http://www.wired.com/2013/03/mexico-child-soldiers/
Mexican Drug Cartels Targeting and Killing Children
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...b9C_story.html
Mexico's Drug War is Changing Children
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/27/166027...ging-childhood
Mexican and Central American children are coming here because we're the closest relatively stable nation. It has nothing to do with the USA being special. If they were closer to Europe, they'd be going to Western Europe.
If you don't think things have gotten much, much worse in Mexico and Central America over the past few years, you haven't been paying attention. Well, except for the Honduras, which I think has had one of the highest murder rates in the world since the 1990s.
Okay, I did google that to be sure- here are the nations with the highest homicide rates, according to the UN:
COUNTRIES
Honduras: 90.4 (per 100,000)
Venezuela: 53.7
Belize: 44.7
El Salvador: 41.2
Guatemala: 39.9
Jamaica: 39.3
Swaziland: 33.8
Saint Kitts and Nevis: 33.6
South Africa: 31.0
Colombia: 30.8 |
I was talking about Central America, not Mexico. On the lists I checked of the most dangerous countries in the world, there weren't any countries in Central America on there. There was a country in South America on the list. Brazil was on the list. Brazil has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Brazil has had 1 million people murdered in the last 30 years.
Even in Mexico, one of your articles said that 1,180 kids under 18 were murdered in 2009. In the US in 2009 there were 1400 kids under 18 that were murdered. Our population is obviously bigger, so even though we have more kids murdered, the murder rate is still lower here.
Edit: I actually just did another search and the list they had at Huffington did show a few countries in Central America in the top 10.