Clergy arrested challenging ICE, while media ignores ICE's foreign policy roots
📰 THE STORY: Newsweek reports on approximately 100 clergy members arrested at Minnesota's airport during an anti-ICE protest, highlighting their disruption of airport operations and calls for ICE to be abolished amid concerns over family separations. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The current 'border crisis' and the existence of ICE itself are direct consequences of decades
of destructive US interventions in Latin America. From the 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala to support for Pinochet's brutal dictatorship in Chile (1973), and ongoing economic warfare against Venezuela (2002 onwards), US policy has destabilized entire regions, creating conditions of poverty and violence that force people to flee. ICE's expansion under the guise of 'national security' post-9/11 masks its
foundational role in managing the human fallout of imperial exploits. Double Standard: When people flee US-backed destabilization in Latin America, they are labeled 'illegal' and subjected to a militarized border and incarceration by ICE. However, when 'dissidents' from US-designated adversaries like Venezuela or Cuba are encouraged to flee, they are often granted asylum and framed as brave
freedom-seekers. The media rarely connects the dots between US foreign aid to corrupt regimes and the influx of migrants. Follow the Money: The 'border security' industry is a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Private detention centers, many with ties to political donors, profit directly from increased arrests and longer detentions. Furthermore, the defense contractors that benefit from US military