The Migrant Industrial Complex

I got educated by James O’Keefe’s, “Line In The Sand” yesterday. With his typical investigative approach, he really pulled the covers off the “migrant industrial complex”, enabled and funded by the U.S. government.

In the political season, rhetoric mostly dwelt on gang crime, fentanyl deaths, and sex trafficking – probably because these contexts hit high notes of concern with a minimum of argument. They’re efficient shibboleths that can plug in to any speech, and leave room for more rhetoric on other subjects.

O’Keefe’s exposure of the “migrant industrial complex” shows us the human supply chain elements from origins to destinations, and all the operators engaged in the business who depend on the porous border for their livelihood. Foreign cartels provide links in the chain, but they’re only one set of agents.

There are the NGO operators selling and organizing the migration pipeline to third world customers. Some of these operators have political motivations, others come from various American religions. It stands to reason that some of these groups cooperate with cartels to move their human product. The revenue model for the intake groups appears to come from direct fees and from U.S. government reimbursements per head.

Most interesting is that the pipeline market sells specific destinations. It would also be interesting to see how the different destinations are priced, and what add-on promises are used to up-sell the packages from standard to premium.

After the human products make it through the border, a legion of supply chain operators, including some churches, move their captive market through transportation modes, detention camps, relocation service providers, and destination housing, while providing legal matriculation support, all for direct service fees and government per-head reimbursements.

Massive sums of government money grease the migrant industrial complex. The supply chain operators express a charitable veneer to legitimize and authenticate their various revenue models.

This migrant industrial complex is a national disgrace, built on selling the illusion of the American dream to desperate customers, that traffics in adults and children, for huge money.

I expect the drug revenue model for cartels is dwarfed by the government subsidies.

Closing the border limits the human intake supply and spells the eventual end of the complex. But there are still plenty of revenue opportunities – fees and subsides – for all the domestic operators who still have product.

Exporting these human products back to origins would probably use, and enrich, the same operators currently providing intake, while further impoverishing the human products.

The border provides a root cause to enable the migrant industrial complex, but the rot goes far deeper, and all if it must be cured.