A Century of U.S. Intervention Created the Immigration Crisis

Those seeking asylum today inherited a series of crises that drove them to the border

The 1823 Monroe Doctrine set the stage for U.S. intervention throughout Latin America. Photo by Michael Nicholson/Corbis via Getty

A national spotlight now shines on the border between the United States and Mexico, where heartbreaking images of Central American children being separated from their parents and held in cages demonstrate the…