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I have an exact example of this today. When discussing the far-right win in Chile, people pointed out that he used a lot of anti-venezuelan rhetoric, essentially characterizing all venezuelan migrants as gang members. And then there was a comment characterizing people who fled Venezuela as all gusanos and criminals that obviously escaped because they fear solidarity and socialist spirit.
It felt so yucky because It was agreeing with the obviously xenophobic framing of "Venezuelan migrant gangs", but also denying all agency or personal reasons for Venezuelans going through the hardship of the embargo and the shortages to leave. I have personally known Venezuelans who migrated in the early 2010s, who were neither criminals nor gusanos whose sugarcane plantation was expropriated by Chavez. The majority of the millions of people who have exited Venezuela are regular working class folks escaping material precarity, the same way people going into the US or Europe are.
I get where people are coming from, but they have to realize that the vast majority of migrants are economic migrants due to crushing sanctions. This is true of Cubans too, the majority of Cuban-Americans migrate because of economic reasons related to the sanctions. Gusanos are a small minority of the Cuban-American population that gets 100% of the government and media support.
Not to mention that the reason why organized crime in Chile and other south American countries has a lot of Venezuelan migrants in it is not because of some inherent criminality in the people who left their country. This is a xenophobic point being made literally by Trump&Co and the European far-right.
The real reason why is that these countries weren't ready and/or willing to have a serious, compassionate way to deal with mass migration. This leads to migrants being marginalized, and marginalized people resort to petty crime to survive, as well as being policed more harshly than locals.
This is the kind of basic stuff even progressive liberals get. I'd expect a socialist to get it, too, rather than finding themselves agreeing with a Pinochet-loving, son of a literal Nazi when painting literal millions of people with the same brush.
I met someone like that through organizing, maybe 6 years ago. He was a grad student and came to a bunch of our events. Positive opinion of socialism but very negative opinion of Maduro.