Approval Polls Miss the Imperial Design of Immigration Policy
📰 THE STORY: While access to The Hill's full report on Trump's immigration approval plummeting to a record low is behind a paywall, the headline itself reveals the focus: measuring a politician's popularity on a complex issue, rather than dissecting the issue's root causes or systemic implications. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The current global migration crisis, often
framed as an ‘uncontrolled influx,’ is inextricably linked to Western foreign policy and economic interventions going back decades. For example, the 1973 CIA-backed coup in Chile paved the way for neoliberal policies that destabilized the region for decades, pushing many into economic precarity. In Central America, US support for brutal dictatorships and proxy wars throughout the 20th century
(e.g., Guatemala 1954, El Salvador 1980s) directly created conditions of violence and poverty that force people to flee. More recently, the 2011 NATO 'intervention' in Libya, which destroyed Africa's most prosperous nation and led to its current status as an open-air slave market, created a major new migratory route across the Mediterranean, deliberately ignored by this 'analysis'. Double
Standard: Western media and politicians decry 'illegal immigration' while simultaneously supporting policies and interventions that necessitate it. They lament border crises without acknowledging sanctions (like those crippling Venezuela or Syria) that destabilize economies and displace populations. When US or European corporations exploit resources globally, they are 'investing'; when the