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Blame CAFTA for Children at The Border
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Aug. 5, 2014 | TRADE DEALS | The violence in Central America that is sending tens of thousands of children to the U.S. border is a direct result of CAFTA, a 9-year-old trade deal that is remarkably similar to the TPP and TAFTA, now being negotiated in secret. Public Citizen nails it: "Nine years ago this week, the polemical Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) was passed by the House of Representatives…in the dead of night…by a single vote. CAFTA proponents promised the deal would reduce gang and drug-related violence in Central America, boost economic development, and diminish the factors pushing Central Americans to migrate to the United States…Today, as thousands of Central American children leave their homes and risk their lives to try to make it to the United States, CAFTA's promises have proven tragically empty…" Continue reading here.
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