“Extraction Migration” is a term, apparently introduced by Breitbart.com, for the unofficial immigration policy of the U.S. over the past several decades. In brief, it refers to a policy that permits, both legally and illegally, the removal of foreign workers from their native countries to cities and towns and rural areas of the United States to perform labor Americans “won’t do” for peanuts or for some reason elites don’t want them to do.
In a July 3 Breitbart article titled “53 Migrant Deaths Expose Unofficial U.S. Migration Policy,” Neil Munro described the history of the policy this way:
Since at least 1990, the D.C. establishment has extracted at least 40 million migrants and visa workers from poor countries to serve as legal or illegal workers, temporary workers, consumers, and renters for various U.S. investors and CEOs.
Munro notes the following about Extraction Migration:
- It cuts the “career opportunities of ordinary Americans, shrinks their salaries and wages, raises their housing costs, and has shoved at least ten million American men out of the labor force.”
- It distorts the U.S. economy by allowing employers to use stoop labor instead of machines.
- It reduces voters’ political influence, undermines workers’ rights, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ coastal states and the Republicans’ heartland and southern states.
- It encourages wealthy elites to shift their sympathy to grateful migrants, and away from despairing Americans, alienating young people and radicalizing Americans of all ages.
In a 2021 article, Munro quoted Rob Law of the Center for Immigration Studies, who said the administration and their big business allies “would like to extract much of the entirety of Central America and drop them into the United States for economic purposes. [This extraction] will permanently destroy those Central American countries.”
In other words, we have met the Root Cause and it is us.
Watch for future references to “Extraction Migration.” It’s a policy we are afraid won’t be abandoned anytime soon.