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Who is funding the border crisis?

2 points by madman2890 ↗ HN
According to the CBP website there were 144,278 border apprehensions/inadmissables in May of 2019. In May of 2018 there were only 51,862. That's an increase of 278% year over year. Is there any data behind an orchestrated campaign to exacerbate illegal arrivals at the southern US border? The plausible culprits are numerous. What do you think?

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration

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aphextim
A few that I've noticed in the headlines.

https://www.cair.com/about_us

https://www.splcenter.org/issues/immigrant-justice

https://asylumadvocacy.org/

Now whether these groups are actively promoting this for ideological reasons, or just trying to profit off of it is a question I am unsure of the answer.

When questioning the reasoning behind things, I find the reasoning tends to always boil down to money and greed.

Including wars - usually someone is making money somewhere and has a vested interest in keeping the war drums beating. Especially if you own an interest in both sides.

madman2890
Definitely. There's definitely a story here. The significance of the increase is undeniable. I also agree on the reasons behind things primarily being due to money, greed, and power.
existencebox
I've been following the border issues for the last few years. What has surprised me throughout the entirety is how little the topic of "what if something logical is driving them AWAY from south america" comes up, when compared to assumptions of misdirection, malice, greed and partisanship.

Here's some ad-hoc statistics from Columbia. Bogota [0] and Medellin [1], and I don't think the Venezuela situation needs citation.

While the stats aren't uniformly aligned, enough of the "violence"/"perception of violence" stats have increased markedly over the last 2-4 years (street robberies under [1] is a good example) to make me ask whether the migration we're seeing is a natural and emergent result from a deterioration of order in some areas of South America.

God knows if I lived there I'd have already started booking it north when hyperinflation and food riots kicked in. No need for ulterior motives there, at least.

[0] https://data.colombiareports.com/bogota-crime-security-stati... [1] https://data.colombiareports.com/medellin-crime-security-sta...