The Hill Wonders About Bad Bunny While Ignoring Migrant Crisis Roots
The Hill, in a breathtaking display of journalistic tunnel vision, published an opinion piece titled 'How serious is talk about ICE patrolling the Super Bowl over Bad Bunny?' This piece meticulously avoids discussing the U.S. foreign policies, economic interventions, and climate impacts that destabilize nations and force individuals to seek refuge. Instead, it offers a purely performative concern
over ICE's PR optics, implying that the problem is merely how enforcement looks, not its often brutal reality. While they muse about Bad Bunny, they conveniently ignore the historical context that has fueled migration from Central and South America for decades—policies that funnel billions into defense and corporate interests while destabilizing sovereign nations. The very policies that generate
chaos abroad are implemented by politicians who eagerly fund ICE's domestic actions. It appears some concerns are more 'serious' than others—like maintaining a palatable public image rather than addressing the human cost of empire. One might wonder if the conversation would be different if those fleeing had more PAC money to share around.