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Ayn Marx · 06-30-2022, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Excuse me semi-hijacking your thread, but it does say it's about human trafficking, and with the horrific events in Texas yesterday I reckon this is the place, perhaps, to open a discussion on same.

Biden today said
"This incident underscores the need to go after the multi-billion dollar criminal smuggling industry preying on migrants and leading to far too many innocent deaths", but does it not rather highlight the desperation of Mexicans to get into the USA, and ask the question why the path to immigration is not being made safer for them? Or am I just completely misinformed? This is surely the sort of thing the Republicans will point to in the run-up to November, screaming about a wall again (though that would not have stopped a supposedly legitimate truck crossing the border). Nevertheless, Trump's foaming rhetoric about Mexicans is bound to re-enter the conversation, no?

Point taken.
If I can shift the focus a little though. In these discussions little is said about the appalling conditions people have to live under in many Sth American nations. History tells us that part of the reason for this is a long history of America treating them as pieces on a chessboard to be moved around without being consulted. In some ways the crisis now flooding over the Mexican border is of the US’s making. My suspicion the situation will open a window for China to step in with a Sth American version of ‘Belts & Roads’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United..._Latin_America