By David Bacon

Editor’s Note :

Below we post David Bacon’s excellent piece on the current crisis of refugee children along the U.S./Mexico border and the manipulation of the events in the press by right wing media sources. Bacon offers some short term and long term policy alternatives for the nation. To get a view of the crisis in its broad context we recommend the short video, Destroy Their Economic Livelihood and They Will Come, by Jeff Faux on the Real News Network. Here.

By David Bacon

Journalist Laura Carlsen, writing from Mexico City, has published on the Americas Program website an important article about the way the U.S. media covers the migration of children to the U.S. – Child Migrants and Media Half-Truths <http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/12389>. Carlsen raises key questions – the cause of the displacement that leads to migration, and the way the story of migrating children is used for political purposes in the debate over immigration policy.

Source: Tea Party and Border Patrol Spin the Story of Children in Detention