In any event, adoptions will not stop the children from Central America from coming here. Sending them back immediately is probably the only thing that would slow this down. This is probably not good for the children. When we finally get a comprehensive immigration bill, there can be provisions for these children. Until then, the situation will not go away and ct be blamed on President Obama.
I have been to Guatemala, Hondurans and El Salvador, mostly back before the stupid Reagan interventions. There always were a lot of stray kids shining shoes, begging and selling chiclets in the streets in every town in those countries. In the 1980's there was a major uprising El Salvador and the Sandinistas took over Nicaragua, held elections and threw out the ancient Sandinista oligarchy, which was allied with a number of American fatcats. Eliot Abrams was connected to the oligarchy in Salvador, He was just the most prominent one, but not the biggest of the buddies of the old dictatorships. Congress banned Reagan from aiding the contras, but he thumbed his nose at them and they did not have the guts to impeach the treacherous old geezer, and he sent tons and tons of weapons to the oligarchies of all three countries as well as the Nicaraguan Contras, blathering crap about our 'back yard". Reagan sold weapons to the Iranians that had held our diplomats hostage for 444 days and sent the money to the contras. The CIA smuggled dope and spent it on crap for the Reagan's secret war.
All the fighting created a lot of refugees, who came to the US and many young men went to LA and other cities, committed crimes because they had no marketable sjkills, and got thrown in prison, where the formed gangs like Salvatrucha MS 13 got hideous tattoos and were the deported back to Central America, and where there were no gangs, because these were originally countries of poor subsistence farmers, they took over street crime in those three countries. This crap is blowback from the immense stupidity reactionary creeps like Eliot Abrams and that doddering old fool, Ronald Reagan. Note that Nicaragua was eventually allowed to have its own elections, and elected first some right wingers, then some centrists and finally the Sandinistas again, and although there is a lot of poverty and corruption, street gangs are a much smaller problem and there are vastly fewer children coming here from Nicaragua.
Hondurans elected a slightly leftist government, and the military, with the help of the US right wingers, threw it out and replaced the president with one of their own. Honduras had no major internal unrest until that old bastard Reagan, sent weapons and advisers to teach the Honduran military how to deal with student protesters and union organizers.
