Since Columbus Americas north and south has always been a land of newcomers. The Spanish, Portugese, English and French displaced fhe native people through disease and extermination. The humanity of Africa was plundered by empires and the American Republuc. The First People disappeared through wars to free the sea to sea for the industrial exploitation of the masses from Europe. Ptge upper classes thrived off the misety of the others, but still people risked all to escape the hopelessness of their home to reach the Land of the Free.
And still they came.
By the millions to the USA, BUT ALSO Columbia, Peru, other other Latin American countries.
Most recently from Senegal and Venezuela. There was no stopping them and Trump won the 2024 election by appealing to the fears of 31% of the electorate. GOP governors shipped the illegals from the border states to the North. Plenty of them.
New York City housed thousands.
In Clinton Hill several warehouses were transformed into shelters. Senegalese men and large Venezuelan families. Their voyages were long and dangerous often financed by debts to the human traffickers, but I was surprised by the size of Venezuelan families. As many as fivr children parented by short Indios. All fundamentalist Christian and I asked myself how were they able to finance this trip.
Only one answer came to mind.
Their churches. Catholics throughout the Americas have abandoned the Old Religion to worship the fundamentalist faith. And the churches are financed by the rabid rightwing Bible thumpers.
Venezuela sits on the greatest oil reserves in the world, but reaped about $4 billion in 2023, while Saudi Arabia earned a hundred times that amount thanks to the longstanding US embargo, which has impoverished the nation. There would be no refugees, if we believed in a free market.
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