Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Border Crisis? How About A Right to Stay Home

April 08, 2021

Americans talk about the surge at the border, but the real point is everyone has a right to stay home. Today’s guest Avi Chomsky says that under Biden, Trump’s cement wall is instead outsourced to a militarized high-tech barrier. Do Central Americans really have a choice? They’ve long been subjugated to the “security and prosperity” of the few. And the severe effects of climate change in Central America have destroyed the ability to keep living there. The exploitation and extraction economy replaced their natural farming with cattle, cotton, and sugar destroying their land. Chomsky argues Biden’s new border policies are actually ancient history.