The Border Crisis Is Forever

Underneath the theater of partisan politics, there remains a churning border-industrial complex, Todd Miller reports.

[consortiumnews.com]

{Believe me, the forces that shaped our southern border over the decades have been far more powerful than Donald Trump or any individual politician. During the 2020 election, it was commonly asserted that, by getting rid of Trump, the United States would create a more humane border and immigration system. And there was a certain truth to that, but a distinctly limited one. Underneath the theater of partisan politics, there remains a churning border-industrial complex, a conjunction of entrenched interests and relationships between the U.S. government — particularly the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — and private corporations that has received very little attention.}

Another thing that gets little attention is Biden's own donations to this private corporate business. {In the early 2000s came an influx of Border Patrol agents, followed in 2007 by the construction of a 15-foot wall (that Senator Joe Biden voted for), followed by high-tech surveillance towers, courtesy of a multi-billion-dollar contract with the Boeing Corporation.} Now that's before he became vice president. He also was a supporter of various unethical and illegal wars in Central America, along with many crippling killing sanctions before that time. And as vice president, he and Clinton under the Obama administration, created even more horrific conditions which lead to the vast amount of immigrations to todays numbers. Those policies are still a leading factor to todays issues that Trump brilliantly used to gain his power over a certain selection of our population. Which creates the forever crisis with purpose. Things on the border are going accordingly as planned. Their capitalist agenda is the problem. Checkers or Chess, anyone?

{The cumulative force of that complex will now carry on in Trump’s wake. Indeed, during the 2020 election the border industry, created through decades of bipartisan fortification, actually donated more money to the Biden campaign and the Democrats than to Trump and the Republicans.}

If you chose Chess, you're right, for todays results. While you're actually wrong if you want change. Listen closely how John Dacey explains this. There's also a bit more before this point on private prisons as a whole, and after the border point being made.

{Under Bush, that border became another front in the war on terror (even if no terrorists crossed it), opening the money faucets. And that was what Jackson was underscoring — the advent of a new reality that would produce tens of thousands of contracts for private companies.}

Bad foreign policies that oppress and kill rather than using diplomacy towards fruitful partnerships create a false manufactured means to throw billions each year to corporation cronies. All in efforts to distinguish how socialist run countries are more beneficial to their citizens.

{In addition, as U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq began to wane, many security and defense companies pivoted toward the new border market. As one vendor pointed out to me at a Border Security Expo in Phoenix in 2012, “We are bringing the battlefield to the border.”}

Corporations are dictating and controlling our government. Our government is purposely creating the horrific environment in collaboration. Death and poverty is just a mere consequence we are to accept.

{In early January 2021, Biden’s nominee to run DHS, Alejandro Mayorkas disclosed that, over the previous three years, he had earned $3.3 million from corporate clients with the WilmerHale law firm. Two of those clients were Northrop Grumman and Leidos, companies that Nick Buxton and I identified as top border contractors in Biden’s Border: The Industry, the Democrats and the 2020 Election, a report we co-authored for the Transnational Institute.}

Just as the Obama swamp converged with Trump's swamp, the Trump and Biden swamp converge. Had enough of this cycle yet?

If they really wanted to stop immigrants from coming to the US, they'd just stop fucking up their countries. No one wants to leave the homes of their ancestors unless they're forced to.