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    Half Find Refuge in the U.S., Says Report



    Mexico Drug War Displaces 230,000 and Half Find Refuge in the U.S., Says Report

    Published March 25, 2011

    2010: Central American migrants walk along the train tracks as they make their way north on the outskirts of Mexico City.

    About 230,000 people have been displaced in Mexico because of drug violence, and about half of them may have taken refuge in the United States, a new report says.

    There were 27.5 million internally displaced people in the world in 2010, said the report by he Swiss-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, a leading international body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide. About 5.4 million of these were in the Americas, an increase of 400,000 -- mostly due to an increase in the number displaced in Colombia and Mexico. There were more people displaced in the Americas in 2010 than in the Middle-East.

    Colombia, which is dealing with a decades-long civil war pitting leftist guerillas with right-wing paramilitary groups, leads the world with a record 3.6 million to 5.2 million displaced people. Kate Halff, Head of the NRC Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, says widespread discrimination against displaced populations from ethnic minority groups was seen, including between Afro-Colombians in Colombia.

    “In 2010, Colombia and Sudan had considerably the largest internally displaced populations, followed by Iraq, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and Pakistan,â€
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    "This is very bad!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by stevetheroofer
    "This is very bad!"
    I guess our so called government won't be happy until we are all living in 3rd world over population, poverty and squalor.
    It's Time to Rescind the 14th Amendment

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    Quote Originally Posted by WhatMattersMost
    I guess our so called government won't be happy until we are all living in 3rd world over population, poverty and squalor.
    "Yeah! I'm almost positive that's not what MLK meant when he said "all men created equal!" That means all my crappy stuff is going to be crappier "GREAT!"
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