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| VP Harris meets with Guatemalan officials. Photo: Kent Nishimura/LAT/Getty Images |
This isn’t to say that
progressives should view their program as primarily an answer to the supposed
“border crisis.” After all, there’s no reason to fear migration.... But the
occasional spikes in border crossings give progressives an opportunity to go on
the offensive, to describe the ways that their program would improve the lives
of working people both at home and abroad.
By David L. Wilson, Truthout
June 13, 2021
The recent focus on the
rising number of Central American asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border
could have one positive result: it creates an opening that activists can use to
promote a progressive foreign and domestic agenda.
The two parties are split
over how to slow the current rise in migration. Republicans favor the sort of
harsh measures that the Trump administration inflicted on migrants; centrist Democrats
also support deterrence, but they propose moderating it slightly and spending a
few billion dollars to address Central American migration’s root causes. Vice
President Kamala Harris’s statements during her June 7-8 trip to Guatemala and
Mexico were typical.[…]
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