The Problem With Mass Deportation To "Shithole" Capitalist Extraction Zones

 "Before talking about cracking down on undocumented people here, why can't there be a discussion about the United States' role in fueling migration abroad. There's something really unfair to me about the United States having policies that destabilize countries, crippling sanctions that force people to leave . . . If you look at all the countries that are the source of migration you can trace their history and see a huge role of U.S, meddling. For example, take Central America. The United States has been propping up dictators there, supporting death squads, for large parts of the twentieth century. Haiti, since its foundation, the U.S. has been meddling with it, because Haiti was the first free country of this hemisphere, a country of freed slaves who revolted against their French colonizers. And France and the United States have been punishing Haiti for that ever since. Any discussion to me about dealing with people fleeing these counties needs to deal with the U.S. role in destabilizing them to begin with. And some sort of efforts to address that. It's not fair to help destroy foreign countries and then when people flee to basically punish the people that are trying to build better lives for themselves."

-----Aaron Mate, Useful Idiots, January 27, 2025

 

Someone needs to tell Saagar Enjeti of Breaking Points that U.S. sponsored disasters leading to mass migration are not a relic of the Reagan years, as he has somehow convinced himself is the case. Many U.S. sponsored coups (and coup attempts) are quite recent, as can be seen below:

2002 - present - Venezuela.

Unsuccessful U.S. coup against an indigenous revolution opposed to U.S. imperialism. Hugo Chavez was briefly overthrown in 2002, then returned to power by a popular uprising. Washington has never stopped trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government ever since.

2004 - Haiti. 

Successful U.S. coup against champion of the poor Jean Bertrand Aristide, who was hustled out of the presidential palace in his pajamas by U.S. Marines and deported to Africa. A hideous reign of terror persists down to the present.

2008 - Bolivia. 

Unsuccessful U.S. coup against President Evo Morales, a strong critic of U.S. imperialism.

2009 - Honduras. 

Successful U.S. coup against Manuel Zelaya. Coup plotters were trained by Washington at Fort Benning, Georgia, which is known in Latin America as "the school of coups" thanks to the bloody achievements of its graduating classes.

2010 - Ecuador.

Unsuccessful U.S. coup against socialist President Rafael Correa, a principled critic of U.S. imperialism.

2012 - Paraguay.

Successful U.S. coup against Fernando Lugo, whose fondness for liberation theology's "preferential option for the poor" (i.e. decent treatment) was an affront to wealthy investors and national security state fanatics.

2018 - Nicaragua.

Unsuccessful coup attempt against the government of Daniel Ortega, a key leader of the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution.

2019 - Bolivia.

Successful overthrow of socialist Evo Morales.

1959 - present - Cuba.

U.S. invasion of the island at the Bay of Pigs failed in 1961. Sore losers, U.S. imperialists have tried everything to destroy the Cuban revolution ever since.