American Exceptionalism: Elitist Myth or Historical Fact?

tl;dr: The Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy is the latest in a long history of international treaty violations and U.S. law violations committed by the U.S. government concerning the freedoms of others. At the heart of the zero-tolerance policy, like other policies in the U.S.-Latin America diplomatic history, is the American Exceptionalism ideology, which tells us the U.S. and its uniqueness require a different set of rules and regulations than the other status-quo nations, specifically in regards to views and practices of democracy…