{"id":538316,"date":"2023-01-10T03:27:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T00:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-weak-biden-fell-for-the-weaponization-of-maduros-migrants\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T03:27:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T00:27:18","slug":"how-weak-biden-fell-for-the-weaponization-of-maduros-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-weak-biden-fell-for-the-weaponization-of-maduros-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"#How weak Biden fell for the &#8216;weaponization&#8217; of Maduro&#8217;s migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ec5f35a804\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ec5f35a804\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-weak-biden-fell-for-the-weaponization-of-maduros-migrants\/#%E2%80%9CHow_weak_Biden_fell_for_the_%E2%80%98weaponization_of_Maduros_migrants%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;How weak Biden fell for the &#8216;weaponization&#8217; of Maduro&#8217;s migrants&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHow_weak_Biden_fell_for_the_%E2%80%98weaponization_of_Maduros_migrants%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;How weak Biden fell for the &#8216;weaponization&#8217; of Maduro&#8217;s migrants&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>The Cuban military dictatorship has unleashed three destabilizing rafter crises since taking power in 1959. They occurred in 1965, 1980 and 1994-95, all years when a Democrat was in the White House. During the Obama administration, more than 120,000 Cuban migrants\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2017\/01\/13\/cuban-immigration-to-u-s-surges-as-relations-warm\/\">found<\/a>\u00a0their way to US ports of entry from 2014-16, mainly via Central America.<\/p>\n<p>There was no attempt by\u00a0Fidel Castro\u00a0to flood American shores with desperate\u00a0<em>balseros<\/em>\u00a0during the presidencies of\u00a0Ronald Reagan,\u00a0George H.W. Bush\u00a0or\u00a0George W. Bush\u00a0despite their hard-line policies against Cuba.\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0faced caravans arriving at the southern border starting in 2018, but by the end of 2019, the numbers of migrant \u201cencounters\u201d by US Customs and Border Protection had dropped precipitously.<\/p>\n<p>This partisan dichotomy is worth noting in light of the human trainwreck at the southern US border since President Joe Biden took office. Is the migrant crisis merely a spontaneous flood of huddled masses yearning to breathe free, or is it an organized assault on US law and order similar to Castro pranks of old?<\/p>\n<p>Flight data from Venezuela to Mexico collected by the nongovernmental organization Center for a Secure Free Society and interviews the center has done with migrants at the US border suggest the latter. In a paper due out in March, SFS director\u00a0Joseph Humire\u00a0presents research to show that Caracas has played a key role in facilitating the migrant spike since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Using migrants as weapons is essentially an act of war. Yet Thursday the United States announced it will grant an additional 30,000 visas a month to Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Cubans and Haitians if they <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ly from their home countries. Biden sets a bad precedent in bowing to blackmail as so many of his Democratic predecessors did.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/ogrady-venezuela-146.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Immigrants, most from Venezuela, are escorted by Mexican immigration agents after being expelled from the United States on January 09, 2023 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. President Joe Biden visited El Paso Sunday, his first visit to the border since he became president two years before. The visit came just days after the administration changed asylum policy, making it easier to quickly expel more migrants at the border into Mexico. U.S. border authorities took into custody more than 2.5 million migrants in 2022, the highest number on record.\" class=\"wp-image-25300338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/ogrady-venezuela-146.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/ogrady-venezuela-146.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/ogrady-venezuela-146.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Immigrants from Venezuela continue to pour through the borders.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">John Moore\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Enemies of Western liberal democracies have a long tradition of sparking migration crises to extract geopolitical concessions from governments that appear vulnerable to extortion. In a 2016\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.armyupress.army.mil\/Portals\/7\/military-review\/Archives\/English\/MilitaryReview_20161231_art007.pdf\">essay in the journal Military Review<\/a>, \u201cMigration as a Weapon in Theory and in Practice,\u201d Tufts University political <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> professor\u00a0Kelly Greenhill\u00a0defined the strategy as \u201ccoercive engineered migration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weak nations, Greenhill explained, can capitalize on the desperation of their populations \u201cto achieve political goals that would be utterly unattainable through military means.\u201d Clearly \u201cthe idea that states such as Cuba, Haiti, and Mexico could successfully coerce their neighbor, the United States, with the threat of military force is absurd,\u201d Greenhill wrote. But \u201cthe tacit or explicit threat of demographic bombs\u201d to force the United States to negotiations is not. Cuba was successful in this strategy during the presidencies of\u00a0Lyndon Johnson,\u00a0Jimmy Carter,\u00a0Bill Clinton\u00a0and\u00a0Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Greenhill\u2019s essay doesn\u2019t mention Venezuela, but in recent years it may have become the most aggressive practitioner of the geopolitical coercion she described.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela wants desperately to get out from under US sanctions imposed by the Trump administration and restore its legitimacy. It made progress last year by forcing US talks with dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro to free American hostages and feigning interest in negotiating a return to democracy. But the large numbers of people desperate to leave the country also scream opportunity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/ogrady-venezuela-147.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"In this Dec. 30, 2014, photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, members of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Knight Island approach a boat with 12 Cuban migrants southwest of Key West, Fla.\" class=\"wp-image-25300340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/ogrady-venezuela-147.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/ogrady-venezuela-147.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/ogrady-venezuela-147.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The U.S. announced it will dole out 30,000 visas a month to Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Cubans and Haitians if they apply from their home countries.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/U.S. Coast Guard<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many migrants are opponents of the regime, and exile is a way of purging dissidents. But it isn\u2019t enough that they leave. Caracas delights in the destabilizing effects of large numbers of migrants on Uncle Sam\u2019s doorstep. Those eventually employed in the United States will send back dollar remittances, which will prop up Venezuela\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Some 7 million people have fled Venezuela since 2014, when the economy hit the skids. But in most of those years, migrants went largely to neighboring countries in South America. When Biden arrived in the White House, things changed.<\/p>\n<p>Humire told me last week that \u201cimmigration agents encountered nearly 190,000 Venezuelans along the US-Mexico border in the latest fiscal year ending September 30, a 375% increase over the previous fiscal year.\u201d Organized crime trafficked many of those people on land, but the evidence collected by SFS suggests that it wasn\u2019t without help from Caracas.<\/p>\n<p>According to SFS, in 2021 and 2022 the majority of the direct flights to Mexico from Venezuela were operated by Conviasa, which is subject to US sanctions, or other, smaller state-owned or state-controlled airlines. SFS found that Venezuelans it interviewed at the border, who had arrived in Mexico by air, had purchased packages from Venezuelan <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> agents. The packages included the necessary government-issued travel documents to enter Mexico and contacts with human smugglers who facilitated the ground journey to the US border.<\/p>\n<p>Biden could clamp down on Maduro\u2019s trafficking network by imposing sanctions on fuel and service providers to the Venezuelan airlines. Instead, he has opted to reward the exploitation of the refugees. Problem not solved.<\/p>\n<p><em>From The Wall Street Journal<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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They occurred in 1965, 1980 and 1994-95, all years when a Democrat was in the White House. 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