Reddit reviews The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

You may be interested in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Beast-Riding-Dodging-Narcos-Migrant/dp/1781682976

A journalist actually rode the rails and followed immigrants from central America (where most are coming from at the moment) up to the border. He found that yeah most of the women are being preyed upon and are sexually assaulted, but it isn't other illegal immigrants that are doing it, it's the men who have made a business over terrorizing border crosses. The men who stay in Mexico and Central America. Shocker right, Trump said they were all crossing so it must be true. Also I don't mean to upset your idea that America is wonderful or great, but a lot of the terror and violence exists because America has a high demand for illegal drugs. The American demand creates drug cartels. I specifically talked about xenophobia over racism because that's what Donald Trump has proven to be a xenophobe. He is describing undocumented immigrants as a massive horde who are destroying America (Make America Great Again? Please.) The system that America runs off of is built with inequality. You do not have to explicitly say let's make America white, to believe that America should be all white. And yeah maybe painting someone who is legally by the definition of the constitution of the United States America a citizen as being a foreign national is probably a little bit mixed in with racism. That's what Trump does, he appeals to the lowest common denominator.

Oscar Martinez documents this in brutal detail in his book The Beast. Martinez personally rode the migrant trail from Central America to the US eight times in the course of writing his book. It's also been documented extensively by human rights groups. The "people who shouldn't be here" line ignores the fact that most of these migrants are fleeing problems that the US itself is largely responsible for creating (due to the war on drugs and attacks on left-wing movements in the region).