Comprehensive Strategy Needed on Central America
Comprehensive Strategy Needed on Central America
One year later, leaders must address the root causes of the child migrant crisis, argues AS/COA's Chairman John Negroponte in The Hill.
This piece was co-authored with General Bantz J. Craddock.
At this time last year, we saw the mass arrival of unaccompanied children from Central America at the borders of the United States, sent by parents without hope for their future. To avoid a repeat of this tragedy, it is time for American leadership and a multifaceted strategy to address the complex and many root causes that drive this problem.
Through our years of service at the intersection of diplomatic and military command in Central America, we saw first hand the conditions that spark social upheaval, misery, fear and pain. We know these conditions, if untreated, result in disruption across the region, a threat to all nations in the Americas. We also know that men and women of good will and determination on both ends of the migration trail can turn this dynamic around by addressing the stubborn economic, social and legal patterns that undercut development and drove this exodus....
This article was originally published in The Hill. Read the full article here.
