In America the President of the country has consistently based his politics on the fear that there is a growing migrant crisis coming from the southern border, that a horde is coming to his country’s shores the steal, rape and kill their way through the country. Throughout his presidency he has attempted to deal with this issue through usage of deterrents as he and his aids call them, via family separation, internment camps and threatening to use military forces to push back the so called horde, or in particular a migrant caravan.
Recently the brutality of one of those options, the internment camps, has come to light once more where not only have at least seven children died during captivity, thousands are being held every day in these camps, along with thousands more adults with limited resources, food, water, clothing and bathing materials. To exacerbate matters, on July Fourth, the United States independence day, a document has been released wherein the US is not obligated to provide soap, toothpaste or even sleep to detainees as they are not citizens of the United States. Irregardless of the fact that as asylum seekers (which they all are, and which is a legal act) they are in fact entitled to those things as has been ratified by the courts for decades. Though given the current nature of the Supreme court perhaps that is less certain.
Additionally much of this ‘crisis’ has been exacerbated by the United States, their involvement in Venezuela exacerbating an already turbulent moment in the country’s history, and their previous efforts to remove left leaning and often more importantly Reformist leaders within nations such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua leading to military dictatorships and later on severe gang violence is indeed what has lead so many people, especially women too often pregnant, to leave the country in the hopes of finding a better life. Leading to the issue on the border. Not of course that any of this will be mentioned my the press or the government or the judiciary or even the Democrats running for President or for attention. Responsibility is such a difficult thing after all.
In the end this creates a cycle where migrants come to the US, are demonized for power and influence, and by encouraging the issues that already exist in these South American Nations or creating them, those who wish to create a boogeyman to remain in power can do so in perpetuity.