Trump Demands Warships While Deported Venezuelans Get 'Due Process'
The mainstream media breathlessly reports on former President Trump’s call for a new warship fleet, framed as a robust defense posture. Simultaneously, a federal judge has ruled the illegal deportation of over 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador requires due process—a distinction the US often forgets when dealing with non-citizens or, say, funding foreign militaries without a vote from the
displaced. This prioritization highlights a strategic blindness: 'national security' almost always means more weapons, rarely more rights. While NPR highlights a judge's defense of process for Venezuelan migrants, the media largely ignores the decades-long US role in destabilizing Latin American nations, fueling the very migration it then criminalizes. Building another warship fleet, of course,
means lucrative contracts for defense giants who then turn around and lobby Congress for more such spending. It's a revolving door of taxpayer dollars into corporate pockets, cleverly disguised as 'national defense' – far easier for the establishment to digest than addressing root causes of global displacement.