The mass displacement of populations has been a recurring feature of human history, often driven by conflict, environmental degradation, and economic disparity. It isn't just people relocating in many cases. It's weaponized migration.

The book Overrun is a deep dive into how the Biden administration created an illegal migration crisis in only four years.

In recent days I have had time enough to think deeply about what generated this huge mess in a country that had it all. I have a good idea of the whole picture, which I want to share here.

Weaponized migration

However, in recent years, there has been a growing recognition that migration can also be deliberately engineered as a tool of political coercion and destabilization.

Under certain contexts, migration can be weaponized, functioning as a form of "slow violence" that inflicts widespread suffering and undermines the stability of states and societies.