The feeling toward immigrants in America around this time was filled with contradictions. In many ways, the continued influx of people and refugees, first from the CIA-sponsored dirty wars in Argentina and Chile and then Central America, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala, was a direct result of US policy and its role in destabilizing the entire region. The US had trained and funded the contras (contra-rrevolucionarios) and helped stoke a war where before there was none. Salvadorans and Guatemalans were leaving because their countries were now flooded with military hardware, spies,
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