“The U.S. cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals,” Petro wrote. Petro said even though there were 15,660 Americans without legal immigration status in Colombia, he would never carry out a raid to return handcuffed Americans to the United States. “We are the opposite of the Nazis,” he wrote, in a jab at Trump. Mexico also refused a request last week to let a U.S. military aircraft land with migrants.

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    4 days ago

    you guys need to get your shit together and police your own continent.

    We do? Increasingly we’re having to secure it against US threats and meddling, though. And of course our actual police aren’t as corrupt and murderous as yours, and our legal system offers far more basic human rights and protections than yours does (I’ve heard you don’t even get the most basic rights like mandatory holiday and sick pay? Wild. You need to start fighting against your government for your basic rights).

    we can start to take care of ourselves and our needs instead of blowing billions on places we destroyed

    Have you tried not destroying places? You might not have to spend quite so much on reparations if you pace yourself a bit.

    The world doesn’t revolve around your country, and all of your nation’s current major problems (oligarchy, late stage capitalism rot, poor citizen rights, poor/absent social services, poor education system, large class gap, poor environmental protections, etc etc) come from within, not - as your fascist self-proclaimed Dictator would have you believe - the evil foreigners trying to oppress/abuse you.

    Nobody’s country is perfect, mine isn’t, yours isn’t. We all have problems, and it’s difficult to admit that our problems are more often than not of our own society’s making…

    Don’t believe the oldest fascist trick in the book though - being told it’s all somehow the fault of foreigners - to rally the people against a common foe whilst stripping away your own rights and building an authoritarian state bit by bit, destroying your own freedoms and eroding the moral core of your nation, all in the name of fighting that foe.