The west’s cruelty to migrants will only grow more inhuman. Don’t let the nightmare peddlers win

Sending people to Martha's Vineyard and Rwanda is a bid to paint them as marauders. But wealthy economies depend on their presence

In the United States, the Republican governors of Texas, Florida and Arizona are bussing and flying migrants from their states to states governed by Democrats. In the United Kingdom, the government plans to deport migrants to holding facilities in Rwanda, an authoritarian country 4,000 miles to the south, which only a generation ago experienced one of the worst genocides in recent human history.

In one wealthy country after another, migrants are being made into a spectacle, both for domestic political advantage and to deter other migrants from attempting to come.