A good piece of actual journalism on the new migration. One thing that I think it may have downplayed too much is that these new migrant networks have been funneling people to Europe, a phenomenon that led to Brexit and Orban in Hungary.
It's easy to compare this problem to narcotics since drug cartels have supplemented their income with migrant smuggling. But in many ways this is a problem similar to climate change - even if climate change is probably amplifying the desire to leave the Global South. Because the primary will to address this issue is in America and Europe, the needs of those poorer countries are largely ignored. A country like Niger might simultaneously want to solve climate change and want economic development and need to facilitate "excess" people into migrant chains and want to keep its most skilled and motivated workers at home.
Interdiction and deportation are about as effective in solving this problem as it was with drug smuggling networks. However, the fact that the existing system is indeed broken was the point of the bipartisan Senate bill that the House GOP killed.
Finally, it's worth noting an underlying truth to this story: seems like a lot of people want to risk everything to come to this country. Which is weird, because both Trumpists and Leftists keep saying how much is sucks here.
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