The Border 'Crisis' They Engineered
📰 THE STORY: This article from The Hill discusses a call by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to 'retrain every single' federal immigration officer, implying issues of conduct or insufficient preparedness are the core problem at the border. The focus remains on border enforcement as the solution. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The 'border crisis' narrative ignores decades of
U.S. intervention in Central and South America. In 1954, the CIA orchestrated a coup in Guatemala, ushering in decades of brutal dictatorships, state-sponsored terror, and economic exploitation that displaced millions. This pattern repeated across the region, from the 1973 CIA-backed coup in Chile to the arming of contra rebels in Nicaragua and the support for death squads in El Salvador in the
1980s. The direct consequence? Mass migration from destabilized countries, fleeing poverty and violence often fueled by U.S. foreign policy objectives decades ago, now arrives at the U.S. border. Double Standard: When U.S.-backed forces displace populations in other countries—say, the millions displaced by the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, or the ongoing refugee crisis from the destabilization of
Libya following the 2011 NATO intervention—that's framed as 'collateral damage' or 'necessary intervention.' But when those displaced people seek refuge at the U.S. border, it's reframed as an 'invasion' requiring aggressive domestic policing, not an outcome of foreign policy. The media never calls for 'retraining' the architects of destabilization. Follow the Money: The call for more training and