U.S. immigration tragedies have repeatedly occurred, and the problem of illegal immigration has become an irreparable disease.

Jimu News reporter Huang Jiaqi

On June 27, local time, the US police found a large number of illegal immigrants in a abandoned trailer truck in a suburbs of San Antonio, Texas. As of now, the number of victims has risen to 46. He was taken to the hospital.

Illegal immigrants have always been a major focus issue for American society, and in recent years, it has become more and more intense.

Data show that the US law enforcement department 2021 fiscal year (October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021) detained about 1.7 million illegal immigrants in the United States and Mexico border, reaching the historical peak; fiscal 2021, US -Mexico border immigrants died The number of people reached 557, setting the highest record in 1998, and the real death may be more.

According to a report issued by the Pedou Research Center in the United States, since June 2020, nearly half (48%) Americans believe that the issue of illegal immigration is a "very important" national issue.

These data highlight the weakness and embarrassment of the US government in dealing with illegal immigration affairs.

Immigration with a child enters the United States from Mexico

The problem of illegal immigration is the American stubborn illness

According to Xinhua News Agency, in recent years, the number of immigrants who have been hit by natural disasters such as the new crown epidemic and hurricanes has increased to escape poverty and disease.

After the Bidai government came to power in 2021, a large number of immigrants from Latin American countries such as Haiti, Salvador, Honduras, and tried to transit Mexico to the United States. At that time, the number of asylum applications received by Mexico increased by 87%from the previous year.

In December 2021, immigration tent camp in Mexico

According to data released by the US Customs and Border Protection Agency, the US law enforcement agency arrested about 1.7 million people at the US -Mexico border in fiscal 2021, which was the highest since it was recorded in 1960.

In addition, according to US media reports, in recent years, more than 266,000 illegal immigrants who have been detained by the US government have been detained for more than 100 days, and nearly 1,000 people have spent more than one year in the shelter. Some even more than 5 years.

"The border situation is very chaotic, the government is at a loss, and the response is very slow." Alex Nolast, director of the Economic and Social Policy of the Cato Institute, said in an interview with the American "Governance" magazine, "Because the government is unwilling to let it People enter legal legal, so for many people who come here from the Americas, it may be the safest way to take a caravan through Mexico. "

Alex analyzes that as long as the United States still needs workers, and the future immigration workers can not easily enter the United States easily and cheaply, the chaos on the border will not disappear.

The United States sway in immigration policy

On June 21 this year, the Republican members of the United States described the situation of the US -Mexico border was "flooding", "out of control" and "danger". He also predicts that more deaths will soon occur.

Nolast said, "Our immigration system is indeed a problem. In the case of relaxing the legal immigration policy, it is difficult for officials to improve the level of immigration, but the control border depends on expanding legal immigrants."

Immigration encountered law enforcement officers after entering the United States from Mexico

Due to the different opinions on the issue of immigration, the US policies of the United States have been swaying around for a long time.

On the one hand, the mainstream view of Republicans on immigration is that illegal immigration is a serious social problem, which will exacerbate American criminal issues, seriously consume the US economy, and seize the opportunities for the work of American people.

On the eve of the 2016 U.S. election, Trump promised during the campaign to build an isolation wall on the US -Mexico border to block illegal immigrants.

In April 2018, the Republican government led by Trump implemented a "zero -tolerance immigration policy" on the US -Mexico border. According to the policy, the US federal government will be separated from illegal immigrants to the United States and their children.

On the other hand, Democrats said that because of the poverty of Central America and the deterioration of law and order, the local people left their hometowns and the United States should give asylum. The Bayeng government has stated that Trump's immigration policy is neither ineffective and inhuman, criticizing the "cruel" of the previous government and promising to implement the "more humane" policy.

After taking office, Biden reversed the Trump administration's tough policy for illegal immigrants, which led to the increase in the number of illegal people entering the United States.

A poll in the US media in 2021 showed that about one -third of the people agreed with the loose immigration policy of Biden's government, and the opposition was 51%, of which the proportion of the Communist and Party voters was as high as 90%. This shows the tear of American society on immigration.

It is embarrassing that, on the issue of illegal immigration, although the Democratic Party government led by Biden and the Republican government led by former President Trump is very different, but the effect is not the same. According to statistics from the US Congress Research Service, under the Trump administration's tough immigration policy, the number of illegal immigrants in the United States has not decreased since the construction of the US -Mexico border isolation wall.

In order to votes, the disputes between the two parties on the issue of illegal immigration are becoming more and more intense and extreme, which has made illegal immigrants more effective in the United States, and the tragedy of illegal immigration continues.

(Picture source: "Governance" magazine)

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