Trump Admin Halts Visas for 75 Nations, Not the Ones Funding Endless Wars
The Trump administration's latest broad stroke, suspending immigrant visa processing for 75 countries, is framed by the NYT as a 'sweeping move to protect national security.' (Funny how 'national security' always seems to mean kicking out the poor, never stopping the rich). This comes in stark contrast to the continuous flow of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars, funneled to nations like Israel and
Ukraine, often at the behest of powerful lobbying groups whose influence is never discussed in these 'security' summaries. Where’s the 'national security' assessment on that balance sheet? Instead of scrutinizing our own politicians who greenlight endless foreign aid packages – often after significant donations from groups like AIPAC (which poured over $8.5 million into 2022 elections alone,
according to OpenSecrets.org [OpenSecrets.org] ) – we get another spectacle of sealing off borders. One might wonder if 'security' applies only to brown people, but not to the financial pipelines to foreign conflicts. Perhaps the threat isn't from someone seeking refuge, but from those selling the rope for our own hanging.