Thread by @soychicka

So, I wasn't going to say anything about this right now....

UNTIL I SAW THE T-SHIRTS.

FFS, how can ANYONE be reporting on this rapid tripling of the number of unaccompanied minors as anything other than an op?

They left A WEEK BEFORE THE ELECTION &
THEY HAVE BRAND NEW T-SHIRTS

There is ZERO chance that this migration began without at least a wink-wink-nudge-nudge from somebody linked to the GOP. Over the past 4 years, the 'caravans' were timed just perfectly for the 2018 and 2020 elections.

Actually...

In 2019, @priscialva noted the 'threat' of caravans had "fizzled out" - but then, of course...

cnn.com/2019/03/04/pol…

Look! Within three weeks, a new caravan!

And a resignation from the then DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

usatoday.com/story/news/wor…

Now, if they were annual/biannual and generally known about in advance, sure. But there's no logic to the timing of these events from the perspective of when the journey might be safest.

Somebody needs to seriously grab at this problem by the root - start asking migrants what prompted them to make the trek NOW.

I seem to remember some mentions of recruitment being hyped up on social media...

it's time to start interviewing migrants on entry, for their attorneys to figure out what kicked off their travels, and to subpoena facebook and other social media and online marketers to find out who was funding those recruitment efforts.

Because the people who rail against the 'caravans' are the ones who benefit most from their presence - and the timing of the 2018 caravan, arriving just in time for fearmongering at midterms, the rapid response to questions about "where have all the caravans gone?",

and the 2020 caravan (when GOP polling data undoubtedly showed Trump would probably lose) arriving just after Biden inauguration to lay blame at @theDemocrats' feet...

Let's put it this way: I'd love to see WHEN the first draft of that statement released yesterday was written.

And here's the thing: if anyone in the US is involved in manufacturing caravans for for political gain, not only is that racketeering (at least in the general sense of the term), it's a twisted way of using fraud to generate slave labor...

Someone tells them that things will be better in the US than in their current situation. And not only is there political gain, but allies profit financially from holding migrants in privately owned border facilities.

https://twitter.com/soychicka/status/1167659735665037312?s=20

Fraud blocks an individual's exercise of free will;
without a promised benefit at the end, individuals would not choose to undertake the risk of migrating - and without compensation or benefit, coercion would have to be used to force them into undertaking the journey.

And, point blank, profit at the expense of removing any person's free will is slavery.

And no, a free t-shirt at the end of the road is not just compensation.

So, IOW, I'm looking forward to hearing about the subpoenas to social media companies.

And records of political operatives' phone calls to contacts in Central American countries.

Because this smells like somebody's been having too much fun with their rats again.