Over the past 25 years, ever since the American government began enlisting the Sonoran Desert in its war on unauthorized migration, the office of the Pima County examiner in Tucson, AZ has recorded more than 4,000 migrant deaths along the state’s southern border. Nationwide, migration experts put the minimum death toll at around 10,000, though they pretty much all agree that the true count is undoubtedly higher. Last year was the deadliest on record.
Biden recently lifted a public health order known as Title 42, which had stranded many asylum seekers at the southern border for more than three years. Title 42 created a massive backlog of asylum-seekers and now it’s gone. Biden’s critics openly advertised the lie that the border was now open and Biden wanted the migrants to become Americans. But Biden is no immigrant-loving hero. He replaced the measure with new border enforcement policies that will have much the same effect.
Asylum-seekers can now download an app and join an electronic line of refugees. This is the stage of imperial decline that we’ve reached, where the government is pushing apps to people fleeing their homes. We’re just a few steps away from making immigrants perform TikTok dances in order to cross the border. Those who failed to seek asylum in another country first are unlikely to get in. Deportations will now be fast-tracked, and new tweaks to asylum interviews are aimed at making them harder to pass.
So now we’ve got armed vigilantes patrolling the southern border, harassing humanitarian aid providers during the day and rounding up migrant children by night. Caught in the middle and paying the heaviest price, as ever, are desperate families facing a deadly desert and an administration that thinks less than nothing of them.
Side Items
Shooting in New Mexico: An 18-year-old dumbass armed with at least three guns stalked through a northwestern New Mexico community yesterday firing randomly at cars and houses. The man wound up killing three people and injuring six others including two cops before he was eventually shot and killed. What thoughts must run through someone’s head to motivate this kind of random violence? I pray we never find out
New Mayor Alert: Chicago inaugurated its 57th mayor yesterday, as Brandon Johnson took the official oath to serve as the city’s head cheerleader. Personally, I hope Johnson finds success in his new role, I’ll certainly be cheering for him. But should he fall short, as all politicians inevitably do, he can expect to be bullied and called out by the residents of this Windy City. Politicians should live in constant fear that the masses they’re tasked with serving will turn on them at any given moment