Migrant crisis at US-Mexico border hyped to conceal US aggression history: Analyst

The issue of Central American migrants and asylum seekers flooding the US-Mexico border has been negatively hyped by the American media to conceal the fact that the crisis was initially created in the aftermath of US aggression on the Latin American region, says a political analyst and former US intelligence officer.

“Unfortunately the media in the United States is diametrically opposed and they are very formidable opponents," said former American intelligence linguist Scott Rickard during an interview with Press TV’s The Debate program on Friday.

"The western media is dominated by a left and right paradigm that is absolutely destroying any form of democracy or republic that we could ever imagine; this is a formidable war on both sides… You really have a huge misunderstanding and many American people repeat because they hear them over and over on their respective networks," he added.

“When it comes to immigration, certainly it’s not the tsunami of trouble that we are talking about; we are talking about tens of thousands of individuals approaching our country of 350 million people, so this is not going to have a major effect on any kind of statistics in the country, in fact this is a very small portion for a country that as a matter of fact was stolen from many Hispanics and many indigenous people,” Rickard said.

“At the same time as well, you are looking at a society in south of the border, in Mexico, and certainly in Central America that it’s seen a tremendous amount of aggression from North America, specifically from the United States,” he added.

Rickard's comments came after the US Supreme Court issued an order on Wednesday that would block refugees from countries other than Mexico and Canada from applying for asylum at US borders.

The United Nations refugee agency expressed regret over the US decision and said the American Supreme Court order could hurt the refugees, who are fleeing violence and persecution at their homeland.

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Noel Fritsch, the other debater in the program conservative consultant from North Carolina, defended the the American Supreme Court order and lashed out at the "corrupt regimes" the Central American migrants were absconding from.

"The value of citizenship in all of those countries, every single one, should be very high. These folks deserve the right to be able to live in their country and to lead lives and have businesses and families that add value to their communities," Fritsch said.

"They do not agree with the United States Constitution… We are taking all of the problems that they have — social and societal problems — off of their hands, bring them to the united states, letting them make money here and just send money back there; we are enabling those corrupt often-time regimes. They need to bear the brunt of their corruption at home, inside of their borders," he added.

 The International Organization for Migration has said tens of thousands of asylum seekers are gathered on the US-Mexico border.

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US President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policy was a centerpiece of his 2016 election campaign and is now a major issue as he seeks re-election next year.

Trump has long promised to build a wall on the US border with Mexico to physically stop the inflow of migrants but has failed to fulfill that pledge so far.

The American head of state had initially promised that Mexico would pay for his wall. When he failed to secure funding from Mexico, Trump turned to US Congress, which also refused to provide the funds.

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