Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Abby Martin. This is the audio version of each episode of the Empire Files hosted on Telesaur English.ged to carve out space in the U.S. for those escaping war and violence.

To each of us do our part, and the United States has to step up and do its part.

Plotitudes aside, there's already a humanitarian crisis at America's doorstep.

Due to extreme poverty and violence across Central America, there's a massive number of people

fleeing for their lives. Violence in the region has also pushed a startling number of

unaccompanied children to the border.

In 2014 alone, nearly 47,000 children without parents were arrested while crossing into the U.S. from Mexico,

a 92% increase from the previous year.

Instead of helping these refugees, Obama's taken on the legacy of Deporter-in-chief by ejecting humans at a higher

rate than any U.S. president.

During the first five years of his term, Obama oversaw the deportation of two million people,

more than Bush's entire tenure.

Families are being torn apart by these policies.

In 2014, 4,500 families were deported between October and November alone.

During the same two-month period in 2015, the number skyrocketed to 12,500.

Staying up to speed, the Obama administration ordered a new wave of raids to kick off the new year,

kicking down the doors of hundreds of sleeping women and children, uprooting countless more families.

But to get here, these families risked everything, and most will risk it all again.

Beyond the shocking numbers of arrested, jailed, and deported is the hidden side of the war on immigrants.

It's a war that doesn't just have prisoners, but fatalities, thousands of them.

The land itself becomes a weapon.

Before 1994, there were as few as five bodies of migrants found in the Arizona desert per year.

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