It's a debate that has been raging between left and right libertarians for Kali knows how long; that age old question of just how libertarian are borders? Naturally, being a Situationist-cum-Agorist, the answer seems pretty fucking obvious to me, and it can be best delivered by another question. What the fuck does chucking people in jail for crossing invisible lines have to do with liberty? The entire premise just feels dizzyingly arbitrary to me, not to mention just plain mean, like a game of red-light-green-light with German shepherds and concentration camps.
However, in today's toxic climate of big government overreach and partisan color blindness, it is also becoming increasingly obvious to me that leaning on empathy towards the 'other' as a debate tactic isn't working very well and it may not have too either. That's because, in the age of Trump, it doesn't take a bleeding heart to realize that a strong border means weaker civil liberties for everyone. In fact, in the long run, American citizens may even stand to have as much to lose as the undocumented.
After winning an election with a downright shocking amount of support from self-proclaimed libertarians, Donald Trump is openly and flagrantly using our nation's fascistic immigration police state to banish green card holders who speak ill of his Zionist masters.
Miriam Adelson, billionaire widow of Ashkenazi supremacist casino cancer, Sheldon Adelson, has been the single largest financier for all three of Trump's presidential campaigns, dumping a reported $600 million dollars into that pussy-grabbing rapist's coffers since 2016. Now, she and others like her are delivering the administration they paid for lists of student activists speaking out against their genocide in the Gaza Strip and Donald Trump is dutifully using the hammer of the state to crush them like glass.
This may have begun with Mahmoud Khalil, the green card holding student activist and husband of a pregnant American citizen, shipped off by ICE to a private prison in Louisiana without being accused of a single crime, but it is rapidly expanding into something far more monstrous.
Trump's border gestapo are now invading campuses across the country while they use AI-assisted reviews of social media accounts to detect and deport any student Visa holder engaging in what is vaguely deemed to be "pro-terrorism" speech. And just like that, Mahmoud has been joined in the barracks by Rasha Alaweih, Rumeya Ozturk, Yunseo Chung, Rajar Khan Suri, and Lequa Kurdia, and the list continues to grow.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has proudly announced that he has personally intervened to cancel the Visas of more than 300 students over campus activism, referring to them as "lunatics" in a recent press conference. But it's OK folks, because these aren't people, they're only immigrants, so, there's nothing to see here.
The only problem with that logic is that human rights are either universal or they are meaningless, and the Bill of Rights provides no exceptions to this rule. In fact, there is zero language in the Constitution referencing citizens or non-citizens at all when it comes to free speech and habeas corpus. That's because the whole point of these documents, however flawed they and their authors may be, wasn't to protect certain kinds of citizens with certain kinds of rights but to protect all of us from the dangers of irreversible government power.
The Trump Administration is actually supporting depriving activists like Mahmoud Khalil of basic human rights with the excuse that the anticipated impact of their free expression "would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States." These creeps are openly using military justifications to liquidate basic democratic principles, and this is far from the only place where this is being done either. This is also the same administration using innocuous war powers to ship people by the hundreds off to foreign gulags without spending so much as an hour in court.
I speak of course of Donald Trump's revival of the Alien Enemies Act to declare war on a Venezuelan street gang called Tren de Aragua. Passed in 1798 in anticipation of a potential conflict with France, this act grants the Executive Office broad sweeping powers to detain and deport non-citizens during wartime.
Trump has decided to exploit this already dangerously vague and rarely used law by essentially changing the definition of wartime, claiming this gang is part of some cockamamy conspiracy to conduct "irregular warfare" within the United States in concert with their sworn enemies back home in the Madura regime. 238 men have been shipped off to Nayib Bukele's drug war banana republic in El Salvador based on evidence as trivial as football tattoos and happening to be in the same car as a motherfucker who has them.
"But what does this have to do with American citizens?" the ethically retarded dregs of the Mises Caucus will brey like goats at a funeral moon. Well, the last two times this sick law was used thousands of legal immigrants were rounded up and tossed in concentration camps, first by progressive nazi Woodrow Wilson during the First World War, then by progressive nazi FDR during the Second, and that time the Alien Enemies Act was only the beginning.
After sweeping up tens of thousands of German, Italian, and Japanese immigrants, Roosevelt went after citizens too, using the AEA as the legal basis for Executive Order 9066 which saw over 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to camps in the desert on the whims of a single despotic regime with a rapacious war lust.
Like I said, rights either mean everything or they mean nothing, and the Trump Administration couldn't make it clearer how little they give a shit about human rights based purely by the company they keep. Warden Bukele, the aforementioned dictator Trump has paid six million dollars to disappear over 200 men in El Salvador's swollen prison system, oversees a massive penitentiary known as CECOT or the Center for Confinement of Terrorism as part of his bloody civil war with MS-13.
This is a veritable city behind bars with a capacity of over 40,000 from which no prisoner has ever left alive, and the Shawshank sheriff who runs this mega-gulag is Donald Trump's numero uno partner in the war on crime, a man who has publicly announced opening his prisons to any prisoner across the globe for the right price. Marco Rubio himself has loudly praised Bukele's offer to house American citizens, all while Trump pushes to combine the War on Drugs with the War on Terror in order to sic Seal Team 6 on the Cartels.
I really shouldn't have to tell anyone that all of this sick shit is a bad recipe for a level of despotism the likes of which this country has never seen before, especially not libertarians radicalized by the excesses of America's various forever wars. What we are looking at here is the very real possibility of the American Government making CECOT the new GITMO and expanding war powers into a continental dragnet that could easily include any pro-Palestine bro lighting up a doobie in the quad of your local junior college.
There is quite literally no other word in the English language for this militant absurdity but fascism and the most absurd thing about it is that our orange Fuhrer was given a mandate to do all of this by hordes of so-called libertarians based on an immigration crisis that occurred during times of unprecedented border security.
Funding for our border police state has been increasing pretty consistently for over forty years now and it continued to increase under Joe Biden who spent over $8 billion dollars more on border and immigration enforcement than Trump did during his first term. Meanwhile, during this same age of total border war, the population of undocumented immigrants has more than doubled in this country and that trend too continued under Trump who saw border apprehensions double during his first term while got-aways increased every fucking year.
The only thing we have to show from all of these military industrial shenanigans besides debt is a Rio Grande lined with defective Israeli surveillance towers and a border army armed to the fangs with battle tanks and a jurisdiction that includes two thirds of US territory, and this is where my latest diatribe comes full circle.
So, you wanna keep brown people off your front lawn? I could tell you to go fuck yourself all day long and a part of me would really enjoy that, but perhaps it would be a little more productive for me to point out that you're already fucking yourselves senseless.
Policing human movement on a massive scale has proven to be about as affective as policing the use of narcotics. You don't have to love crystal meth to recognize that the War on Drugs has failed to do anything but grow government to Godzilla size proportions and you don't even have to be a decent human being to recognize that the war at the border is just another fascist ankle grab with the word 'blowback' stamped all over it.
You just have to be a goddamn libertarian in more than name only. You think you can handle that, gringo? Because they'll be coming for your ass next week if we don't draw the line today.
Peace, Love, & Empathy- Nicky/CH
Soundtrack: Songs that influenced this post
* Cult of Personality by Living Colour
* Only Shallow by My Bloody Valentine
* Personal Jesus by Johnny Cash
* Into Dust by Mazzy Star
* Under a Funeral Moon by Darkthrone
* I Love You, I'm Sorry by Gracie Abrams
* Danny Nedelko by IDLES
* Runaways by the Killers
* See No Evil by Television
* Americon Czar by Brujeria