ROMA – Transit countries, such as Panama and Mexico – we read in an article published by Atlantean War – are subjected to increasing pressure from Washington to detain on their territory, or expel those trying to reach America to their countries of origin.
Darien survivors expelled from Panama. Panama expelled 29 Colombians with criminal records who entered the country from the Darien forest, on the first flight to Bogota, implementing the agreement financed by the United States in July. Washington has promised $6 million in funding for the repatriation of migrants from the Central American nation, in the hope of reducing irregular crossings at its southern border. Other flights are already ready to depart, migrants with criminal records will be expelled first, but the agreement could provide for the deportation of anyone who enters Panama through the Darien region.
Those half a million Venezuelans. Last year, more than half a million migrants – mostly Venezuelans – crossed the Darien. None of these could have requested a regular immigration permit from the United States, having fled and technically “refugees”. Transit countries, such as Panama and Mexico, are under increasing pressure from Washington to detain migrants on their territory or expel migrants to their countries of origin. This phenomenon is now at the center of world attention, because the attitude to be taken by the United States towards migrants is at the heart of the political debate between the two presidential candidates Trump and Harris.
That Trump idea of expelling Latinos from the States. Trump’s idea is well known: to finish the wall on the border with Mexico, to slow down the influx of migrants, to restrict immigration measures, and to expel all Latinos in the United States who do not meet the stringent requirements that has in mind. On the democratic side, despite knowing that this could damage them in the next elections, they have chosen to take the opposite path. But even now it is a path full of obstacles.
A Texas judge’s pause. A federal judge in Texas has put on hold a Biden Administration policy that would give spouses of U.S. citizens legal status without first having to leave the country, causing at least a temporary setback to one of the largest presidential actions aimed at facilitating a path towards citizenship for years. The stay issued by U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker comes days after 16 states, led by Republican attorneys general, challenged the program that could benefit about 500,000 immigrants in the country, plus about 50,000 of their children.
Baiden’s path to citizenship. Biden’s measure offers spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status a path to citizenship, applying for a green card and remaining in the United States during the process, while previous rules require a years-long wait outside the United States, causing what supporters equate to “family separation.” Texas says it has had to pay tens of millions of dollars a year, from health care to law enforcement, due to immigrants living in the state without legal status.
The strategy of detention in transit countries. But the strategy that would like to keep the majority of them in transit countries remains central in the politics of the USA – which is in reality the only destination for this enormous mass of migrants. Lopez Obrador’s Mexico, for example, has established a new Guardia Nacional, whose main task would be to intercept migrants and include them in a temporary insertion program in the territory, pending the process of requesting legal entry into the USA . But, in reality, this new body has also revealed itself to be yet another corrupt body, dedicated above all to extorting migrants and violating their most basic human rights. This is not just another phenomenon of corruption, linked as it is to the growing excessive power of the mafia cartels that dominate Mexico.
Migrants are still a strong source of income for mafia cartels. Migrant trafficking is in fact another source of income for mafia cartels. It is not easy to economically quantify the weight of this business in relation to drug revenues, given the illegal and hidden nature of both. But from the transit from the green hell of Darien, up to the “coyotes” that take the migrants in the last stretch of the odyssey, to the banks of the Rio Bravo, the fate of the migrants is in the hands of the cartels. Who are increasingly protagonists not only of the criminal history, but also of the political, economic and social history of all the Americas.
* Maurizio Sacchi – AtlanteGuerre
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– 2024-10-04 00:58:53
