Weaponizing migrants

 Foreign Affairs:

Over the past month, as thousands of migrants gathered on Belarus’s border with Poland and tried to cross into the European Union, some European leaders accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of engaging in a “hybrid war.” In an effort to put pressure on the EU, they asserted, Lukashenko intentionally sent the migrants to the border with Poland and left them exposed in a freezing forest. Ylva Johansson, the European commissioner for home affairs, called it a new way of “using human beings in an act of aggression.” But if the strategy was extreme, the forces driving it have long been in play. What EU leaders failed to acknowledge was that Lukashenko was drawing on a dynamic of state-manipulated migration that has become common in many parts of the world—and which the EU itself has helped shape.

Without a doubt, the Poland-Belarus crisis has been exceptionally sordid. The migrants in question were not from Belarus or even from surrounding countries but largely from Iraq and Kurdistan. Starting in June, they had been lured to Belarus on tourist visas, with the false promise that they would then have easy access to the EU. When they arrived in Minsk, they were bused straight to the Lithuanian and, especially, Polish borders. In essence, Lukashenko was staging an artificial humanitarian crisis in an effort to get concessions out of Brussels. Ever since rigged elections in 2020, European leaders have dismissed the authoritarian Belarusian regime as lacking “any democratic legitimacy,” and Lukashenko was signaling that he was prepared to use any means possible to force them to the negotiating table and get them to lift sanctions.

Although Lukashenko’s gambit failed, he did succeed in sullying the EU. The Polish government sent troops to defend its border, even using tear gas and water cannons. During the standoff, at least ten migrants died of exposure, including a one-year-old Syrian child. Meanwhile, by supporting Poland’s hard-line tactics and deflecting its ire on Belarus, the EU appeared not just callous but hypocritical: instead of upholding EU asylum law and the principles of human rights, it looked on as migrants were pushed back into Belarus. But the response was squarely in keeping with recent European policies aimed at controlling cross-border migration as much as possible, although usually conveniently farther from its frontiers and out of its immediate sight. Even with the Belarus situation still unfolding, The New Yorker has reported that the EU has paid $500 million to Libya to fund brutal militia-run detention centers, where thousands of African migrants trying to cross into Europe are now being held.
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Ther is much more.

It looks like Biden is using them against his own country to try to change the demographics in red states like florida and Texas.  Biden's actions warrant an impeachment, but Democrats in Congress are coconspirators in the scheme.  

Authoritarian governments have used migrants as weapons in the past. When Moscow began to permit Jews to emigrate from the Soviet Union in 1971, it deliberately allowed criminals, many of whose claims to Jewish identity were bogus, to join them. The Cuban leader Fidel Castro used the same tactic to an even greater extent when he opened his country’s ports during the 1980 Mariel crisis. Most of the 125,000 Cubans who fled to the United States were genuinely seeking freedom and opportunity, but the Castro regime sent convicted criminals and even patients from psychiatric hospitals to join the exodus.
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