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USA Hands Off Honduras: NYC Protest, 2018

Protest in Union Square, New York (cc photo: Jim Naureckas)

This week on CounterSpin: "Biden Administration Ousts Trump's Border Patrol Chief," announced ([link removed]) the June 24 New York Times, explaining in the subhed that Rodney Scott "had become known for his support of President Donald J. Trump's signature border wall, and had resisted a Biden initiative to stop using the phrase 'illegal alien.''' Ergo, we are to understand, his "forcing out" by the White House—suggesting a meaningful departure from the immigration policies of the previous administration. The message is undermined by the subsequent acknowledgement from the paper's anonymous Homeland Security source that Scott "could remain in the department, reassigned to a new post."

The notion of real change is undermined more severely by a close look at Biden's actual immigration policy ([link removed]) , particularly with regard to Central America, which includes familiar promises to promote "the rule of law, security and economic development" in the region, and to fight corruption. Familiar because they've been used for decades as cover for policies that pour money into regional governments that agree to use it to protect the profits of foreign investors, by violence if necessary (and it's always necessary), and even when it means communal and environmental devastation, which are also par for the course.

So what's new? We'll talk about Central America policy and Honduras in particular with Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy.

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West Texas oil rig

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Also on the show: Texas state Rep. Jim Murphy may wish he'd never called attention to Chapter 313—the state program that offers companies major tax breaks to locate in the state. The alarming price tag attached to Murphy's proposal to expand the program led some to examine Chapter 313 carefully for the first time. The Houston Chronicle produced a groundbreaking investigative series on the program and its costs. A somewhat motley coalition of opposition was formed. And now—after being easily renewed three times since 2001—the program is set to expire. We'll hear why that's good news for Texas schools, taxpayers and the planet from Greg LeRoy, executive director of the group Good Jobs First.

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