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Not clicking on the compost, but from what I have seen of immigrants from Central America, more food is the last thing they need. By statistics, Hispanics are fatter than whites.
I am very surprised that we haven't been seeing masses of people moving from Venezuela.
What is going to happen in the somewhat near future as global warming starts causing some real problems throughout the world and even more hungry people are forced to migrate or literally starve?
Then they definitely should not be allowed into the US. What, are we supposed to feed the world?
They can find food in closer countries...no reason to come all the way to the US. Its not our responsibility to take care of all the unfortunates in the world.
We overproduce corn and soybeans, etc - send it to Guatemala and let 'em stay home
Agreed. I'd rather we feed them in their own countries than have millions coming here sucking up our jobs, taxes and resources. Not to mention the overcrowded conditions it would create and further dilution of our identifying culture and language.
"Here’s an unlikely candidate to be the poster child for the new program: Guatemala. The Central American nation has the sixth-worst rate of chronic malnutrition in the world, despite being what might be described as a relatively well-off lower-middle class country. Indeed, the situation there bears little resemblance to the well-worn picture of skeletal children in African refugee camps. Measured by average GDP, Guatemala is doing fine economically. But that fact hides dramatic income inequality: while wealthy citizens live luxuriously in sequestered Guatemala City neighborhoods, the poor are barely noticed, living like feudal peasants in the countryside. Nearly half the children in this country of 13 million are chronically malnourished, according to the World Food Program.
One reason the country’s elite seem blind to the massive hunger problem is that those affected show few physical symptoms. Guatemala’s chronically malnourished infants do eat, but their diet is low quality and carb-heavy, mostly tortillas and pasta. So the children look short rather than wasted. Beans have become too expensive for daily consumption, and farmers have to sell off their vegetables and eggs rather than serving them to their kids. While children don’t go hungry, their nutritional deficits take a devastating toll—hindering brain development, among other disabling effects.
The country’s stark income inequality means that rural areas suffer from a lack of basic infrastructure. Clean water and electricity are almost nonexistent in many villages. Education, too, is scarce. ..."
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