October 31, 2016
Recently, Amnesty International USA sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking that he use the power of his office to address three key issues in international human rights abuses before he leaves the White House in January. Besides urging the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize to close Guantánamo and end indefinite detention, and to grant temporary protected status for El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras noting that “Stark homicide rates, ineffective legal structures, and corrupt law enforcement officials have forced many people to flee their homes...to seek refuge in Mexico and the United States,” the letter called on the US to end military aid to Israel with the exception of purely defensive weapons.
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