Obama to deport 52,000 children
The White House has announced plans to spend $3.7 billion deporting 52,000 children to Central America. The majority of these children come over the southern border into Texas from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, countries which are rife with drug wars and have been devastated by decades of US intervention. Money is going to be spent on care for the children whilst they await detention and electronic tracking devices (in the form of ankle bracelets), enhanced border control and transport. Obama has even proposed changing current laws to make deportations quicker and easier, by removing...