US Embassies Track Migration 'Crimes' While Fuelling Them
The State Department, according to Bloomberg, is directing American embassies to compile dossiers on "human rights abuses caused by mass migration." This initiative, framed under the guise of an effort to pressure allies to tighten immigration policies, conveniently ignores the US's own historical role in creating these very migrations. From destabilizing coups in Latin America (Guatemala 1954,
Chile 1973) to economic policies that cripple local industries, the 'push factors' for many migrants often have a distinct Made-in-USA stamp on them. So, our diplomatic missions will now become glorified surveillance outposts, meticulously cataloging the desperate journeys of people whose homelands were, in many cases, made desperate by explicit US foreign policy decisions. It's less about
addressing 'human rights abuses' and more about shifting blame, isn't it? One might wonder if the next directive will be to track 'human rights abuses caused by resource extraction encouraged by US corporations'. (See United Fruit Company, 1950s).