{"id":238660,"date":"2019-04-28T15:27:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T19:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238660"},"modified":"2021-09-02T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T18:01:17","slug":"millions-of-americans-flood-into-mexico-for-health-care-the-human-caravan-you-havent-heard-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/millions-of-americans-flood-into-mexico-for-health-care-the-human-caravan-you-havent-heard-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Americans flood into Mexico for health care \u2013 the human caravan you haven\u2019t heard about"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Maybe Mexico needs to build a wall?<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is trying to convey panic that there\u2019s an immediate crisis on the southern border, pointing to caravans of desperate people who have traveled thousands of miles.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that Latin and Central Americans are coming to the US fleeing violence and poverty, much of it caused by destructive US trade policy over the course of decades. But there\u2019s another massive \u201cborder crossing\u201d phenomenon afoot \u2014 and Trump has not said a word about it. We\u2019re talking about thousands of US citizens crossing the border each day in search of affordable health care.<\/p>\n<p>At just one checkpoint in Yuma, Arizona, up to 6,000 Americans cross the border every day and enter the bustling Mexican town of Los Algodones, seeking heath care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kULA6STz7z\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/millions-of-americans-flood-into-mexico-for-health-care\/\">Millions of Americans Flood Into Mexico for Health Care<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Millions of Americans Flood Into Mexico for Health Care&#8221; &#8212; Truthout\" src=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/millions-of-americans-flood-into-mexico-for-health-care\/embed\/#?secret=kULA6STz7z\" data-secret=\"kULA6STz7z\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Maybe Mexico needs to build a wall? &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":336733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}