25,400 Honduran immigrants deported from U.S.

[Judi Lynn]

25,400 Honduran immigrants deported from U.S.
report14:20, July 17, 2010

About 25,400 illegal Honduran citizens living in the United States have been deported back to Honduras so far this year, local newspaper La Tribuna said Friday.

Among them, 10,774 returned by air and 14,626 by land, said the report, adding that the total number is expected to increase to more than 40,000 for the whole year.

The Honduran government is urging all Honduran immigrants to apply as soon as possible for the Temporary Protected Status, which allows immigrants from countries experiencing armed conflict or environmental disasters to stay and work in the U.S. for 18 months, the report said.

The number of Honduran immigrants deported by U.S. authorities has been increasing in recent years. Every week, Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula airports receive hundreds of Honduran deportees from the U.S.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90852/7070118.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. "Armed conflict"?

"The Honduran government is urging all Honduran immigrants to apply as soon as possible for the Temporary Protected Status, which allows immigrants from countries experiencing armed conflict or environmental disasters to stay and work in the U.S. for 18 months, the report said."

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The main "armed conflict" in Honduras is the U.S.-funded fascist government's thugs murdering political leftists, teachers, human rights workers and others who oppose the local filthy rich elite and U.S. corpo-militarism.

I would absolutely grant asylum to Hondurans who were being raped, tortured, imprisoned, robbed and oppressed, and under grave threat of assassination, by their U.S.-supported government. But I don't think that's what this asshole meant, do you?

It is unconscionable that the U.S. is deporting Hondurans back to the horrors of this coup government, but then, the U.S. arranged for and covered up for the coup, and WANTS THERE TO BE lots and lots of poverty-stricken, disempowered, slave labor for Chiquita's farms and various multinational sweatshops. Pack 'em in there like sardines and take the pick of the lot--young, docile, good teeth.

"Armed conflict." Would that be the Honduran military shooting up the ELECTED president's house, terrorizing his family, dragging him out of bed at gunpoint, putting him on a plane with blackened windows, landing at the U.S. military base in Honduras for refueling and exiling him from his own country?

Kind of one-sided "armed conflict."