The Border Crisis and Social Media

[NowISeetheLight]

I've been watching the disaster at the Southern border. A lot of stories are mentioning social media posts that say the border is open and come on in. A couple of the articles say the cartels are doing this but I wonder.

I can totally believe the Republican MAGAts would be posting these fake open border stories to make this crisis worse and hurt Biden. I sure wouldn't put it past them.

I'd sure like to see investigation into where these posts are really coming from.

Vanity Fair did an article suggesting the right wing media open border lies may be responsible. I believe it is certainly playing a part.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/open-borders-myth-fueling-migration-crisis

[cbabe]

1. Brokers recruit undocumented labor/traffick into US

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/25/us-farms-made-200m-human-smuggling-labor-trafficking-operation

A lot of abuse for little pay’: how US farming profits from exploitation and brutality

Two dozen conspirators forced workers to pay fees for travel and housing while forcing them to work for little to no pay

Michael Sainato
@msainat1
Sat 25 Dec 2021 12.51 EST

In June, a farm worker from Mexico, who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, was transported through a trafficking network from Monterey to work on farms in Georgia.

They paid the traffickers 20,000 pesos, about $950, loaned from their mother, taking frequent trips back and forth to Monterey, before being told it was safe to leave. Then they were finally transported across the border.

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We arrived at the house where we would live, and had to clean the rooms ourselves. There were roaches, spiders, mosquitoes, and the mattresses were covered in lice,” the worker said. “The bathrooms and showers were dirty and clogged. The kitchen was horrible. We had no air conditioning in hot weather.”

The worker began work daily at 3 or 4am and worked until 3 or 4pm with just one 15-minute lunch break, making just $225 for 15 days of work. They heard rumors that several workers had died. The worker claimed that Haitian immigrants were also brought into the same network.

After 20 days at the corn farm, the worker was sent to a cucumber warehouse where they weren’t paid anything for their work, and then transferred to Texas before escaping the operation and returning to Mexico in July.

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[Chakaconcarne]

2. I read part of the reason for the Ukraine invasion was to create a humanitarian crisis in Europe

Republicans would love to see that here.

I have always questioned the timing of these caravans... I know they are seasonal, but the timing always seems to line up with GOp talking points... this case may be different, but I've suspected someone is conveying they message to the migrants that our borders are open, they just need to show up.