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For well over a year, the Trends Journal has warned that the massive economic consequences of the COVID-19 War will lead to desperation in poorer countries and there will be a flood of refugees seeking safe-haven nations like the U.S.
The report even made the cover of our 3 March issue: “CORONAVIRUS 9/11 – SPREADING TERROR.” We also predicted that if the trend continues, the COVID War will intensify into World War III.
“When all else fails, they take you to war,” Gerald Celente has said.
The Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday on the crisis unfolding in Del Rio, Texas, and said the situation “reflects a stark change in migration patterns to the U.S., driven by COVID-19.”
The report said those traditionally seeking to migrate to the U.S. through the southern border were men from Mexico but there has been a palpable shift over the past few years. More families from Central America have begun to appear during the timeframe and over the past six months, hundreds of thousands of Haitians, Venezuelans, Brazilians, and Cubans have turned up. Besides economic hardship, many are fleeing countries with authoritarian regimes.
From October 2020 to August, about 300,000 migrants who were encountered—or about 20 percent—were from countries outside of Mexico and the Northern Triangle, the Journal reported. The paper said the group represented 7 percent in 2007 and 9 percent in 2019. Haitians are the fastest-growing group of migrants, the report said. (See our report from two years ago, “HAITI: NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE.”)
The paper said many of these migrants have no prospects in their home countries and feel compelled to travel to the U.S. Many also believe that they will be welcomed by the Biden administration.
Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas told them not to come. The administration is continuing the Trump-era Title 42 that allows federal officers to quickly turn undocumented migrants away due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Encounters on the border this year could reach 1.7 million, which would be a 20-year high. The report pointed out that there was also a major jump in Venezuelans.
Once the richest nation of South America, Venezuela’s currency, the Bolivar, is essentially worthless, and the country is battling hyperinflation and its economy is collapsing. (Former President Trump issued new sanctions on the country in January to increase pressure on President Nicolás Maduro, who even the Biden administration sees as illegitimate.)
Celente has long noted, “when people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it.” And in a radically divided Venezuela, many have now lost it. More than 5 million Venezuelans have fled the country in recent years.
TREND FORECAST: As we had forecast, be it the U.S. or across the globe, as a result of the devastation caused by the COVID War that has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions, there will be a flood of refugees seeking safe-haven nations to escape poverty, government corruption crime and violence. This, in turn, will dramatically escalate anti-immigration anti-establishment populist movements in nations where they seek refuge.
And, despite massive U.S. Defense budget as we noted in this Trends Journal, (See story in this issue “WAR MACHINE GETS RICHER AS AMERICANS GET POORER: HOUSE EASILY PASSES $768 BILLION DEFENSE BILL”), the U.S. military which has not won a war since World War II, cannot even protect the nation’s borders.