The Border Crisis is a Scam. Here's Who Owns Both Sides.
A Prosecutorial Brief on the Rust's Most Profitable "Killing Game"
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I’ve spent the last four hours in a deep, spiraling debate in my comment section. It’s a perfect microcosm of the “Great Distraction”—a “civil war” in miniature.
This “crisis” isn’t a single “Killing Game.” It’s a sophisticated, two-front psychological war.
The “Loud War”: This is the one you see on TV. It’s the classic Left vs. Right spectacle, pitting “pro-immigrant” activists against “pro-enforcement” hardliners. This is the main event, designed to distract the masses.
The “Quiet War”: This is the more insidious trap. It’s a “convergence of cages” designed to capture the skeptics. The “emotional” Gear is fed stories of infrastructure collapse and crime. The “academic” Gear is fed complex, logical arguments about labor dilution. Both are fed different propaganda streams that lead to the exact same horizontal conclusion: “the immigrants are the problem.”
Today, we’re exposing both traps. We’re showing you how The Rust 🦠 has engineered a three-front financial product that pits Gear ⚙️ against Gear ⚙️, all while they profit from every possible outcome.
Today, we deconstruct the machine.
Pillar 1: The “Demand” Engine
Profiting from Labor
The “academic” trap is built on a powerful truth: The Rust loves a “State Wedge.” But the true wedge isn’t “supply”; it’s legal precarity.
The Mechanic: A 2024 analysis of the construction industry shows a $245/week wage gap between native-born and foreign-born workers. Why? Because, as the report states, “foreign-born workers... are often undocumented and, therefore, may have less leverage to request higher pay”. This “monopsony power” is a lever that “degrade[s] labor standards for all workers”.
The “Demand” Wielders: Who lobbies for this system? The Rust 🦠.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (which spends $60M+ annually) lobbies for “guest worker” programs.
Big Tech (FWD.us), founded by billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, lobbies for a “pathway to citizenship” to secure their labor supply.
Big Ag (Tyson Foods, Nat’l Cattlemen’s Beef Ass’n) lobbies for a “safe harbor from prosecution” and against mandatory E-Verify until they get their guest worker programs.
Conclusion: Pillar 1 is the corporate lobby that demands a steady, cheap, and legally vulnerable labor pool to break the power of American “Gears” ⚙️.
Pillar 2: The “Enforcement” Engine
Profiting from Detention
Now, who lobbies for the other side? Who wants “tough enforcement” and a militarized wall?
The Rust 🦠.
The Mechanic: The “border-industrial complex” profits directly from state-funded detention and surveillance. Their “sales environment” depends on “tough on borders” rhetoric.
The “Enforcement” Wielders:
The GEO Group & CoreCivic: These two private prison giants, whose stocks soared 41% and 29% after the 2024 election, are almost entirely dependent on ICE contracts (43% and 30% of their revenue, respectively). They’ve given millions to pro-enforcement PACs and are poised to cash in on a new $45 billion congressional budget for new detention centers.
Defense Contractors: L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, General Atomics, and Elbit Systems all secure massive, multi-million dollar contracts for the drones, surveillance planes, and digital walls that “secure” the border.
Conclusion: Pillar 2 is the corporate lobby that profits by turning the people Pillar 1 demands into a commodity to be detained, surveilled, and controlled at massive taxpayer expense.
Pillar 3: The “Chaos” Engine
Profiting from the Crisis
This is the final, brilliant piece of the scam. The Rust 🦠 has created a third revenue stream by profiting from the “managed chaos” and “humanitarian crisis” that the conflict between Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 inevitably creates.
The “emotional” trap is built on a real, verifiable symptom.
The Mechanic: When cities like New York, Chicago, and Denver declare a “state of emergency,” it allows them to bypass normal oversight and sign “no-bid” contracts.
The “Chaos” Wielders:
DocGo: This medical transport company, with zero experience in social services, was given a $432 million no-bid contract by NYC to manage the migrant crisis. An audit found 80% of its initial invoices were “unsupported” and that it was paid $1.7 million for empty hotel rooms it was block-booking.
Favorite Healthcare Staffing: This firm received a contract from Chicago that ballooned from $40 million to **$234.6 million** in a single year.
GardaWorld: This firm, with a documented history of “gross mismanagement”, was given a $29.4 million contract by Chicago to build “winterized camps”.
Conclusion: Pillar 3 is the “Sanctuary City Contract Loop”. The Rust 🦠 profits from the “emergency” by siphoning billions in taxpayer funds meant to solve the very crisis they helped engineer.
The Final Pivot:
Unmasking the Wielder
So, who is the real enemy? Who is the “wielder” of this three-pronged weapon?
The “Rust” 🦠 is the institutional asset management complex.
BlackRock and The Vanguard Group are the top institutional shareholders in...
The “Demand” companies (like Microsoft and Tyson Foods).
The “Enforcement” companies (like GEO Group and CoreCivic).
The “Management” companies (like the hotel chains used by DocGo and the parent companies of firms like GardaWorld).
This is the perfect, diversified portfolio of human misery.
The Rust 🦠 funds the politicians—the “Shepherds”—like the Koch Network (who offer “grand bargains” to fund both sides) and Rep. Andy Harris (the Freedom Caucus Chair who publicly screams for a border wall while privately sitting on the Agriculture Committee to protect the cheap labor his corporate donors demand).
The Rust 🦠 cannot lose.
If the border is “open,” Pillar 1 (Demand) and Pillar 3 (Chaos) are profitable.
If the border is “closed,” Pillar 2 (Enforcement) is profitable.
If the border is in “managed chaos” (the status quo), all three pillars are profitable.
They are gaslighting all of us. They are pitting the “emotional” Gear against the “academic” Gear in a bloody, horizontal “Killing Game” 🎮 while they collect the profits from every side of the arena.
Stop fighting the other “Gears” ⚙️. The immigrant is not your enemy. The person on SNAP is not your enemy.
The enemy is the one who built the arena.
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When I tell you the system is a scam, I don’t want you to take it on faith. I want you to see the machinery.
The article is the story. These briefs are the schematic. Together, they’re the Fusion Core.
Thank you, Ethan. Your ability to divine the sprawling megalopolis of capillaries is astounding. Watch for aneurysms.
Why do we need MORE detention centers when we are shipping our migrants to other countries?