Dear John,

 

Footage circulated yesterday of horse-mounted Border Patrol agents charging at, attempting to grab, and trying to block migrants crossing a river in South Texas.

 

The disturbing incident comes as the Biden administration is preparing to expel Haitian migrants fleeing the island nation, which recently suffered through a presidential assassination and devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake.

 

But these brutal scenes aren’t about a few bad apples in the Border Patrol, or a few missteps by the Biden Administration.

 

Our immigration system, which is unnecessarily cruel, is not a purely Democratic or Republican problem. It is the result of decades of failed U.S. policies and a Border Industrial Complex that perpetuates and profits from the capturing, detaining, and imprisoning of migrants and asylum seekers.

 

The team here at Inequality Media has produced an explainer video to shed light on the Border Industrial Complex behind the shocking images going viral online. Will you watch our video and share it widely?

A confluence of complex factors is driving migrants and asylum seekers to our southern border.

 

For years, deep economic inequality and dire poverty, worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic, have pushed families to flee. U.S. interventions and historic support for brutal, authoritarian regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean laid the groundwork for much of the violence and instability we see today, which has displaced tens of thousands of people. And the climate crisis is exacerbating all of it.

 

But rather than increase international aid or work with local partners to help address these issues, the U.S. response has been to heighten border security in the form of military equipment and a flood of armored patrol officers. Our heavily militarized border has padded corporate profits but done nothing to deter or support migrants fleeing for their lives and their livelihood. Nor have our cruel deportation policies. 

 

With all eyes on the border, now is the time to give people the full context for the cruelty of U.S. immigration and border policies – and what we need to do to fix it. 

 

Can you watch our video and then share it with your friends to spread the word?

 

Thanks for watching,

Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action

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