America Made This Mess

The "border crisis" was built for profit.

A mother doesn’t carry her child through the Darien Gap because she wants a better iPhone. She does it because staying home means burying that child. That’s not an exaggeration. That’s the kind of choice people are facing.

And it’s not because of bad luck, or random violence, or even the myth of “backward countries.” It’s because powerful people—inside the U.S. government, inside corporate boardrooms, inside billionaire circles—spent decades turning Latin America into a pipeline for cheap labor, stolen resources, and political control.

They backed military coups that toppled elected leaders.
They armed death squads.
They imposed brutal economic rules through the IMF and called it “stabilization.”
They stripped land, extracted oil and minerals, destroyed rainforests—and paid off the governments who let them.

And when those countries collapsed under the weight of all that corruption and violence, the people left behind had two choices: run… or die.

That’s how they ended up in the Darien Gap. A stretch of jungle so brutal it swallows people whole. No roads. No protection. Just days or weeks of mud, snakes, mountains, river crossings, and criminal networks. It’s not a shortcut—it’s a graveyard

Image: Map of the Darien Gap, Source: uusc.org

And when people survive it—if they survive it—and make it all the way to our border, here’s what they find:

Detention centers.
Family separation.
Children alone in courtrooms.
And a political machine that dares to call them the threat.

But let’s be honest about who built this system.

Not you.
Not your neighbors.
Not the working people watching housing costs skyrocket while billionaires buy second homes in space.

The ones responsible are the same people who always seem to profit no matter what side of the crisis they’re on. The ones building walls while offshoring your job. The ones writing asylum laws with one hand and taking campaign donations from private prison companies with the other. The ones who created the chaos and then sold the fear.

They are lying that it is about National Security. It’s not. It’s about money, power, and control.

Private corporations make billions locking up immigrants.
Defense contractors get rich building surveillance systems along the border.
Politicians cash in by feeding the public a steady diet of panic, while quietly expanding the very policies that cause the migration in the first place.

It’s a closed loop.
They break countries.
They criminalize the survivors.
They profit from every step.

And the rest of us? We’re stuck in the middle—blamed, divided, misled. Told to hate the people at the bottom of the system instead of looking up at the ones holding the reins.

So let’s stop pretending this is a humanitarian crisis America stumbled into. It’s a business model. And it’s working exactly as designed.

As long as people fear the mother at the border, they’re not looking at the billionaire who paid to destabilize her country.
As long as people scream about an “invasion,” they won’t see the real invaders who are the oil executives, mining companies, arms dealers, and corporate-backed politicians.

It’s about broken accountability.

The people fleeing are not the problem.
They are the proof.
Proof that the empire we fund, the oligarchy we allow to rule, leaves nothing behind but wreckage and refugees.

So no, this isn’t something we did.
But it’s something we have to face.

Because the villains still hold the match.
And unless we stop them, they will keep lighting fires, blaming the smoke on the survivors, and building more cages for the people running through the ash.

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