Refugees or Migrants: Language Matters & U.S. Policy in Latin America
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5 min readMar 30, 2021
The now over 18,000 unaccompanied children and people seeking asylum at the U.S. border, which has grown to family groups making the crossing, is the result of 50 years of failed U.S. policy in Latin America.
Our use of language — migrant v refugee — has exacerbated the problem.
