Is the U.S. on the way to becoming a failed state?
Losing control of borders is one of the primary characteristics of failed states.
See the Wikipedia page for failed states and compare the following criteria to what’s happening in the U.S. right now:
Mounting Demographic Pressures [Yes]
Massive Movement of Refugees or Internally Displaced Persons [Yes]
Vengeance Seeking Group Grievance
Chronic and Sustained Human Flight
Uneven Economic Development [Yes]
Poverty, Sharp or Severe Economic Decline [Yes]
Legitimacy of the State
Progressive Deterioration of Public Services [Yes]
Violation of Human Rights and Rule of Law [Yes]
Security Apparatus [Yes]
Rise of Factionalized Elites [Yes]
Intervention of External Actors
Of course, the U.S. isn’t considered a failed state. Yet. I’d suggest that you will want to be far away if it actually gets to that point.
If you click through on the link below and watch the video, it’s actually a playlist of videos. They play one after another. I watched about five clips before I’d seen enough. I’d encourage you to watch some of that. What are we being set up for?
Any portrayal of a flood of refugees over a porous border as being anything other than a dire emergency is ridiculous. This is not a Left Right thing. You can sit in a university classroom and hear bow-tie wearing professors give lectures about things like this happening in Africa, Central America and the Middle East. (Been there, done that, got the t-shirt). This is definitely proto-failed state stuff.
That said, is the state with the most powerful military in the world really not capable of closing its borders to illegal immigration?
Come on.
So what you have here is some sort of scam designed to get Americans to accept a “solution” that wouldn’t be accepted under anything like normal circumstances. The poor immigrants are being used as props.
I have no idea what the “solution” will be, however.
Via: Arizona Republic:
They are part of an unprecedented tsunami of families and children traveling on their own from Central America trying to reach the United States through the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where the Border Patrol has been overwhelmed by the surge.
On Thursday, about 50 immigrants were living here. Every bed was full.
Many of the migrants were women who had traveled from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala with young children. All of them had run out of money. Now they were stuck at the shelter, within eyesight of the United States.
Hundreds of migrants from Central America are crossing the river daily. They are turning themselves over to the Border Patrol once they reach U.S. soil. At Anzalduas Park in the U.S. border city of Mission, deputies from the Hidalgo County Constable Department Precinct 3 encountered 103 migrants on Wednesday night alone, according to Sgt. Dan Broyles, a spokesman for the agency.
“Many of the migrants were women who had traveled from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala with young children. All of them had run out of money.”
Oh well! Don’t care. Sucks to be them. Should have thought about that before coming here. That’s what they get for not using their brains. Hope they have a nice trip back to their country!