How U.S. Involvement in Central America Led to a Border Crisis

Thousands of Central American refugees and migrants have been coming to the Mexio-U.S. border for almost 40 years – and in spring of 2018, the Trump administration enacted a “zero-tolerance policy” that led to the arrest of any all refugees and migrants attempting to cross the border into the United States. The most controversial aspect of the policy’s enforcement was the forced separation of parents from their children. While much of the conversation has focused on Central Americans escaping violence, there hasn’t been much on why there’s so much violence in the region to begin with. The story? Almost 200 years of U.S. intervention.