And AOC did not tell people to come to the US illegally. She is highlighting the international treaty of accepting people fleeing persecution and violence. These humans literally fleeing for their lives... they are called asylum seekers. There is absolutely nothing illegal about it. We are bound by international law here the same way Europe has absorbed and struggled to help Syrian refugees and others from Northern Africa fleeing war and famine for decades. Those people coming North from our Southern border are escaping an invisible war; one where crime, violence, and murder are perpetrated with impunity because their failed governments cannot provide law and order nor economic stability. Again, due to decades of US involvement to destabilize their democratically elected governments and prop up these politically ineffectual ones.NorthWoods wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:51 pm I generally agree with the criticisms of AOC here. We shouldn't be telling people to come here illegally.
But there are valid complaints about part of the reason Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador are messed up is because we continue to support right-wing regimes that terrorize their people.
You want to support a banana republic dictatorship to maintain a cheap source of poor and desperate workers for export goods to the US? Then don’t be surprised when the fools you installed can’t run a country so that when things really go to shit the cheap labor leave their own country and start rushing into yours. That is the gist of what is happening right now.
Asylum seekers are quite different from undocumented migrant workers who jump the line purely economic reasons. The right wing pundits love to conflate the two issues because they all look like “brown skin people” and more than a few Americans have been hoodwinked by such tactics.
Just like the talking heads who purposefully conflate “assault rifles” with “assault weapons” so as to make intelligent discussions about gun violence virtually impossible in the United States, here we also see the importance of calling each thing by its right name.