Thank you Kat! Yes indeed.
But US meddling goes wayyyy father back.
The US and US companies have meddled in pretty much all of South and Central America since there has been a US.
United Fruit Company, UFCO, owned huge tracts of land in the area of now is (to mention a few) the Bahamas, Cuba, Costa Rica, Columbia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Guatemala, etc. They built and controlled 100% of transportation and communication in these countries and established who ran them and who got to work.
The Panama Canal, we took the land from Columbia and created the Canal Zone, which only recently was allowed it's independence.
Cuba? Between UFCO and organized crime (Mafia), Cuba is now communist because of the US. Period.
Honduras?
Nicaragua?
Chile?
Argentina?
The CIA and the US government in my lifetime has been all up in coups and trying to run everything.
The raping of these countries has gone on for 200 years, and we now want to harass everyone with brown skin who "might" be from a country we destroyed for their papers. Papers some think it should not be a big deal for them to carry and use as examples Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and North Korea.
I really am almost (heh) speechless.
OK OK, I actually could go on and on about why the problem of undocumented workers from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central & South America is the fault of the USA.
The US created the mess and the US needs to fix it.
The war on drugs in not the answer.
The war on undocumented workers not the answer.
War makes it sound like there is an enemy which should be defeated...but the enemy is and has been the US in this disaster.
Don't make me pull out my US Diplomatic History textbook now....
