Latin America Working Group

We began a discussion on immigration from Latin American countries to the United States. A topic we focused on was the current policies towards immigrants and how refugee status is given. Many citizens are denied refugee status even though human rights violations are occurring in their countries. A possible explanation is the US support for those countries governments and the desire to display one image towards it. Some examples of these countries are Haiti, Colombia, or El Salavador. The percentage of people granted refugee status from these countries is much lower than other countries. Next week we plan on continuing the discussion on immigration.