collapse of the old society

Tldr: an Afghan family fleeing the Taliban, diplomats who had worked with the United States in service of the occupation government, who were fully vetted and had US visas, were banned from the United States and (edit: probably) sent to a refugee camp, because their infant child was on the US terrorism watch list. The author tried to bend the rules to let them through. He failed. An automated computer system refused to "believe" an infant child had been placed on the terrorist watch list by mistake and barred the entire family from coming to the United States. They likely ended up in a refugee camp somewhere. The author doesn't know.

(Jesus fucking Christ, think about that. A family sent to a camp because a computer says their infant child is a terrorist and no human being is allowed to override it? That's Orwellian, Twilight Zone, science fiction dystopia shit. If I wrote that into a novel my editor would say it was too blatantly evil. But that was real life, done by the U.S. Department of State, under Joe fucking Biden.)

The stories we read about heroes like Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish bureaucrat who helped thousands of Jewish refugees escape from Germany with fake documents, are no longer possible today.

Every government in the world hates refugees. And thanks to 21st century technology, the loopholes and oversights and acts of individual moral courage that let Jewish and Roma and other refugees flee the Nazis no longer exist. Refugees fleeing collapsing nations and authoritarian states will be turned back at the border by mindless AI algorithms, and the bureaucrats and border guards serving the algorithms, to die at the hands of their enemies without disturbing the peace of wealthy nations or the pocketbooks of our billionaire masters.

Aren't you tired yet?