Reddit reviews The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama

Seeking asylum isn’t against the law in the US.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/psmag.com/.amp/news/what-asylum-means-for-the-u-s-and-the-central-american-migrants-who-want-it

Second the rhetoric the republicans spout is that they’re breaking the law entering illegally, thus changing the narrative from refugees to criminals, and all criminals are dangerous that are gonna get your kids in middle America.

Third if it’s not about race and it’s about coming into this country legally then why station so many border agents or military troops. More often than not, at almost a 99 percent rate of responding the immigrants detained report back to their immigration officer after
processing. FYI most immigrants to this country enter the legal way, through visas, they just stay past their allotted date.

https://crim.sas.upenn.edu/fact-check/do-mexican-immigrants-cause-crime

Lastly, these people are fleeing violence and gang extortion from their own countries, which in some cases had direct US involvement.

https://www.amazon.com/Banana-Wars-Military-Intervention-Spanish-American/dp/0025882104

Here’s a book to read up on it.

This is a stunt to rile up the xenophobic and scared to the voting booths. They’re being labeled as criminals or thugs to dehumanize, did you hear trumps last speech saying that young men are in the caravan WTF do you think that means, he might as have said they’re coming to rape your women. Live in your fantasy of protecting the fallacy of entering this country legally, whatever helps you justify your view point.