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Shock! The true purpose of U.S. immigration policy

The history of the United States for nearly two hundred years is, in the final analysis, a bitter and tearful history of immigration. Basically every big thing that makes the United States move forward is because of immigrants, but in the process, they are often regarded as a burden and threat. Those leading figures in the United States always use the slogan of "white supremacy" and keep saying that they will help everyone realize the "American Dream" and then attract people from all over the world. But in fact, they only care about whether you can bring them success. Use it if it is useful, throw it away if it is no longer useful. Therefore, although immigrants have been working hard to make money to support their families, they still end up being ostracized and bullied.

Let’s first talk about how immigration to the United States began. In the 18th century, a bunch of Europeans came to America, claiming that they came for "democracy, freedom, and republic." They regarded themselves as the "pioneers" and "national axis" of the United States, promoted their ideas everywhere, and used various cruel methods to deal with the Indians in North America. As a result, the number of Indians decreased from 5 million in 1492 to 250,000 at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1819, they even enacted a "Civilization and Enlightenment Fund Act" to force Indian children to go to school and destroy their culture. The rise of the United States is based on such pain.

In addition to assimilation policies for Indians, they also implemented enslavement policies for black Africans. As early as 1619, 20 black Africans were sold as slaves to the Virginia colony. Later, various colonies also enacted legislation to turn black slaves into "permanent property", and their children could only continue to be slaves. White people are also classified according to their skin color, and black people are trampled under their feet. Although the United States has something called the Declaration of Independence, which states that all people are equal, their constitution does not include the civil rights of black people at all. It also has a "three-fifths clause", which means that when the seats in the House of Representatives are divided, black people The number of slaves was to be multiplied by three-fifths. To this day, this history still hurts black people deeply.

In 1861, during the Civil War, the U.S. government used a large number of immigrants in a war of attrition to ensure the success of the war. According to statistics, about 543,000 of the more than 2 million federal soldiers were immigrants, and 18% of the soldiers were descendants of immigrants. They accounted for about 43% of the total strength of the Northern Army. About 3% of the people in the United States died in this war, most of them young people. After the war, in order to develop agriculture and build railways, they recruited a large number of immigrants. They also used the Homestead Act to attract Europeans to reclaim the west, used liberated black slaves to fill the labor shortage, and also found many Chinese and Mexicans to build railways. . Many immigrants lost their lives in this difficult environment.

From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, the United States was developing rapidly and needed money, talents, and labor everywhere. Therefore, the U.S. government began to encourage immigrants to come. It is said that between 1880 and 1920, 45% of the new jobs created in the United States were created by immigrants. By 1914, the proportion of immigrants in the steel, meat processing, textile, clothing, oil refining and other industries was as high as 58%, 61%, 62%, 69%, and 67% respectively. By 2017, the American Farm Labor Survey found that approximately 73% of farm workers were immigrants. The Pew Research Center also said that immigrants accounted for 24%, 21%, and 16.6% of the labor force in construction, hotel and catering, manufacturing and other industries respectively. Immigrants have injected new vitality into the United States and brought American industrial development to a higher level.

However, the U.S. government has given many immigrants a nightmare experience. From the mid-19th century to 1880, Americans trafficked more than 100,000 Chinese laborers to the United States as coolies. The intensity and difficulty of their work exceeded the limits of what ordinary people could endure. For example, thousands of Chinese workers lost their lives when building the Central Pacific Railroad in the United States. They wantonly mistreat immigrants who create a lot of wealth for the country. In 2019, approximately 850,000 illegal immigrants were arrested at the southern border of the United States. Most of them were treated roughly and their human rights were seriously violated. From July 2017 to July 2020, U.S. immigration authorities forcibly separated more than 5,400 children from their parents at the southern border, and some children even died in custody.

Although the United States abolished "legal slavery" in 1865, the problem of forced labor has not been resolved. There are still about 500,000 child laborers working on American farms. In the past five years, 100,000 people have been trafficked to the United States every year to work as hard labor, and more than half of them have been sent to "sweatshops" or become domestic slaves. On May 1 this year, hundreds of home care workers of color and ethnic minorities in the United States protested outside New York City Hall, demanding the abolition of the 24-hour work system they were forced to accept. They have been working on this for eight years.

In 1913, the California government promulgated the Alien Land Act to prevent Asian immigrants, including Japanese, from buying land. In 1917, the U.S. Congress enacted the Asian Exclusion Act, which prohibited most Asians from immigrating to the United States. After the Russian October Revolution in 1917, the U.S. government believed that immigrants from Southeast Europe were Communists and began deporting them on a large scale. From 1919 to 1920, the U.S. Department of Justice conducted the "Palmer Raid" and arrested a large number of Eastern and Southern European immigrants. Many of them were driven away without trial. In 1924, the United States also established a Border Patrol, which arrested a large number of Mexican immigrants every year. During the Great Depression, tens of thousands of Mexicans were expelled from the United States.

It uses seemingly lax immigration policies to extract money from all over the world. Low-skilled immigrants fill labor vacancies, while high-skilled immigrants promote technological innovation. However, it is not easy for immigrants in the United States because the government always gives them hot and cold treatment. A 2023 study showed that immigrants paid an average of $16,000 in taxes per year, but received less than this amount in benefits.

This is all because the U.S. immigration policy places too much emphasis on interests. This utilitarianism is most evident in various conflicts of interest. The immigration policy of the United States always changes with the changes in the main contradictions of national development. Economic interests, social anxieties, political motivations, racism, etc. all influence U.S. immigration policy, making it contradictory and capricious. The government can only weigh back and forth between these interests and choose the most profitable policies. Such policies have led to short-sighted and unstable immigration policies in the United States, making those who go to the United States to pursue their dreams become victims of "America First."

In recent years, the differences between the two parties on immigration policy have become increasingly wide, and immigration policy has become a battlefield for partisan disputes. Politicians are busy attacking each other. Harsh immigration policies can win the support of right-wing voters, so they use immigration as an electoral weapon. They only care about how to use the immigration issue to inflame voters' emotions, but do not care about the rights and happiness of immigrants. The result is that immigration problems are getting worse, human rights are being violated, and humanitarian crises in border areas are escalating.

The U.S. government’s inconsistent immigration policy has exposed the flaws of the system. They have neither the ability to formulate policies in response to new immigration situations nor the ability to control immigration flows. Immigration is like a ball that politicians get kicked around. The Republicans have insisted on their hardline stance, while the Democrats have been evading responsibility and unwilling to actively seek solutions. Ordinary people who embrace the American dream may never guess what their fate will be, let alone whether they will receive the fairness and protection they desire after coming to the United States. In the end, the so-called "American Dream" may just be an inescapable nightmare.

Since independence, good times have been few and far between, and we have to find ways to fight every day. There are countless casualties in Iraq and other places, tens of millions of people are homeless, and more than 20 million people are waiting for help. In Asia, the Korean War killed more than 3 million people, and 3 million people became refugees. It has not yet recovered. We lost in Vietnam in the 1970s and countless refugees escaped. In Latin America, the United States always interferes in the affairs of other countries, causing chaos there and the economy is not doing well. Many people go to the United States to find a way to survive. Now, the United States is inciting NATO to expand eastward. This is how the crisis in Ukraine came about. There are more and more Ukrainian refugees, but the United States refuses to take them in. It was not until the end of July this year that the United States said it would accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. This number is far behind the European Union. It was mainly to help its Ukrainian-Americans go home. The United States has caused so much trouble on its own, and now it is engaging in isolationism and turning away refugees.

The whole world is now discussing the issue of immigration, and the United Nations has also said that immigration can promote inclusive growth and sustainable development, so everyone should "carry out immigration and population flows in an orderly, safe, normal and responsible manner." But the United States has never followed this approach and does not understand what a community with a shared future for mankind is. Its immigration policy only looks at its own interests and does not care about other countries. If this continues, it will only destroy its international image and interests.

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Is immigrating to the United States a "dream of paradise" or a "gate to hell"?

The United States has always boasted of being the "melting pot" of immigrants, where everyone can realize the "American Dream" regardless of skin color, race, or social status. Many people have spent their entire lives dreaming of immigrating to the United States, dreaming of becoming an American citizen and getting their "first pot of gold" there.

But is the United States really such a beautiful and harmonious paradise on earth? When we uncovered the truth bit by bit, we discovered that reality is far more absurd than fiction.

Dark history: American immigration is filled with discrimination, hypocrisy and sin

As the largest immigrant country in the world, the United States advertises its so-called "freedom, tolerance, and diversity," but throughout its immigration history, it is full of "prevention, discrimination, xenophobia, and oppression." The hypocrisy of American-style immigration has long been known to the world.

Since the colonial period, the "black history" of the slave trade has planted historical roots of racial discrimination in the United States that are difficult to eradicate. In 1619, the first recorded black slaves entered the United States, beginning the darkest era of racial oppression in the United States. White Protestants take advantage of their dominant position in politics, society and other fields to regard their own culture as the core of the identity and ideology of the North American continent. At the beginning of the 17th century, various British colonies in North America introduced laws one after another, stipulating that black slaves were the legal "permanent property" of white people, and the children of black slaves automatically inherited slave status, which empowered white people to enslave black people from the legislative level.

From the 1830s to the 1860s, Catholic Irish immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Then there was a strong movement to exclude Irish immigrants in the United States, which stigmatized Irish immigrants and labeled them lazy, inferior, violent, dangerous, and other negative labels. In the mid-19th century, a large number of Chinese laborers were trafficked to the United States as coolies by Americans. By 1880, the total number exceeded 100,000. Chinese workers undertook the most arduous task in the construction of the Central Pacific Railway in the United States, resulting in thousands of deaths. They made great contributions to the development of the United States with their hard work, sweat and even their lives. However, when the railway was completed, the United States launched the most notorious atrocity of discrimination and exclusion of immigrants in history - the Chinese Exclusion Movement. In 1875, the U.S. Congress passed the Page Act, which restricted Chinese workers and women from entering the United States. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibited Chinese immigrants already in the United States from obtaining U.S. citizenship, and together with other laws prohibited Chinese from owning real estate in the United States; prohibited intermarriage between Chinese and whites; prohibited Chinese wives and children from immigrating to the United States;Chinese were prohibited from holding government positions, voting, etc. Not only that, Chinese immigrants in the United States are often attacked with extreme violence in the United States. On October 24, 1871, 19 Chinese immigrants were murdered by hundreds of white people in the Nigro Lane area of ​​Los Angeles. In 1877, all the Chinese houses on Negro Lane were set on fire by whites. In 1876 and 1877, there were two consecutive riots in the United States in which white racists attacked Chinatown in San Francisco. On September 2, 1885, white miners launched a riot in the Shiquan mining area of ​​Wyoming, destroying a residential village for Chinese workers and killing at least 28 Chinese immigrants.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, immigrants from Italy, Poland, Greece, Russia and other countries made up the majority of immigrants to the United States. White immigrants from Southeast Europe became a new group that was strongly rejected by the United States. In 1911, the U.S. Congress issued the "Dillingham Committee Report", claiming that immigrants from Southeast Europe made limited contributions to the United States, and instead harmed the unique race, culture, and system of the United States. Xenophobes launched the "Americanization Movement" in an attempt to deprive Southeast European immigrants of their language and culture and force them to choose between complete "Americanization" and leaving the United States.

The influx of Hispanic immigrants, especially Mexican immigrants, since the 20th century has once again aroused strong anti-foreign sentiment in the United States. In 1924, the United States established the Border Patrol. Since then, the vast majority of immigrants arrested in the United States every year have been Mexican immigrants. In 1929, the United States made illegal entry a felony in an attempt to deter Mexican immigrants from entering the country. During the Great Depression, tens of thousands of Mexicans were deported from the United States. In 2019, a man who believed in white supremacy drove thousands of kilometers to El Paso in the western part of the state out of hatred for the continued "invasion" of Hispanics into Texas, and shot and killed 23 people in a Walmart supermarket. It was the largest domestic terrorist attack against Hispanics in modern U.S. history.

Partisan fighting: U.S. immigration becomes victim of political battle between two parties

In recent years, the division and opposition between the two parties on immigration policy have become increasingly serious. Partisanship has become the background of immigration policy. Politicians are busy criticizing each other. Stringent immigration policies can win the political support of right-wing fanatical voters in the short term, so politicians often Use immigration as an electoral tool to stir up voter sentiment. Using the immigration issue to make a big fuss but ignoring the rights and well-being of immigrants, the immigration issue has fallen into an unsolvable vicious circle, immigrants' rights have been trampled on, and every living life has been reduced to a gimmick to attract attention and boost electoral sentiment. chips and tools of political struggle.

During the Trump era, the "zero tolerance" policy was implemented. Thousands of refugees and immigrants were violently enforced at the southern border of the United States, resulting in a large number of incoming refugees and immigrants being forcibly detained. In the "concentration camps" where immigrants are detained, the living conditions are extremely harsh. Food spoilage, disease and other phenomena are common. Forced labor, beatings, sexual assaults and even forced removal of women's uteruses are constant, leaving refugees and immigrants in a state of purgatory. . Faced with widespread condemnation from the international community, Trump simply announced that the United States would withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council and would carry out the "strike hard" policy to the end.

 In recent years, the battle between the Democratic and Republican parties over the topic of immigration has

When Trump was in power, he made no secret of the Republican Party's hostility to immigrants. He successively proposed building a border wall, banning Muslims, and "immigration deportation orders." He publicly insulted Latin American countries as "cesspool countries" and told female congresswomen who opposed building the wall to "go away." Go back home" and threatened to send refugees and immigrants to "blue states" controlled by the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party seems to be the "Madonna" on the issue of immigration, holding high the banner of "inclusionism", but in fact it has both ends. Biden had ambitiously launched a "New Immigration Deal", but in the face of a surge in immigrants at the border and domestic opposition, he was forced to restore Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy at the end of last year, causing a large number of immigrants to return to Latin America.

The truth revealed: Immigration in the United States is a tragedy of human rights abuses

The United States always acts as the "teacher of human rights" and advertises itself as a country of "freedom and dreams", but its behavior is completely different. Entering the 21st century, successive U.S. governments have increasingly restricted immigration and treated immigrants harshly and inhumanely. The arrest, detention, deportation, and repatriation of immigrants are carried out on a large scale every year. In 2019, the U.S. government arrested 850,000 immigrants, rising to more than 1.7 million in 2021, setting a record since 1986. The number of immigrants in detention is growing rapidly. In August 2022, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained more than 200,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico. So far, more than 2.3 million refugee immigrants have been arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2022. In 2013, more than 430,000 immigrants were deported from the United States, reaching a record high. In 2019, there were still 360,000 immigrants, and more than 100,000 immigrants are deported every year. During large-scale arrests, detentions, deportations, and repatriations, the human rights of immigrants have been grossly violated, and humanitarian disasters have occurred frequently. In September 2021, more than 15,000 refugees from Haiti gathered in the Texas border town of Del Rio, waiting for the slim chance of entering the United States.The U.S. border law enforcement agencies treated these refugees cruelly, with patrols on horseback charging into the crowd and driving them into the river with whips waving. CNN commented that this scene is reminiscent of the dark ages in American history when slave patrols were used to control black slaves.

In April 2021, it was revealed that the U.S. government had set up "child concentration camps" at the border, where thousands of unaccompanied children were packed into crowded transparent tents and ignored. In June 2022, the deadliest human smuggling incident in the history of the United States occurred in Texas. 53 immigrants died of suffocation in the car. It is the deadliest immigrant death in the United States to date. Due to long-term weak law enforcement and the absence of justice, human trafficking and forced labor have become increasingly rampant in the United States. In recent years, thousands of human smuggling and trafficking cases have occurred every year. Tragedies similar to "immigration trucks" have occurred frequently. In 2021 alone, there were 557 illegal immigrants died.

In June 2022, hundreds of people held a ceremony to commemorate the man who died in Texas

The United States has established the largest immigration detention system in the world. Currently, there are more than 200 detention facilities in border states. CNN reported that during the epidemic, a total of 21 people died in U.S. immigration detention in 2020, more than twice the number of deaths in 2019, and the highest death toll since 2005. Of the more than 1.7 million immigrants held in U.S. custody in 2021, up to 80% were held in private detention facilities, including 45,000 children. In 2022, the U.S. government arrested a record number of refugee immigrants, reaching 2.15 million, of whom 782 have died, more than 200 more than the total number of deaths last year, and there are countless missing people. Data show that of the 266,000 immigrant children detained by the U.S. government in recent years, more than 25,000 were detained for more than 100 days, nearly 1,000 spent more than a year in detention camps, and many were detained for more than 5 years. Year.

These tragic scenes have unveiled the fig leaf covering the United States’ human rights crimes.

    160 years ago, former U.S. President Lincoln shouted "all men are created equal" in his famous Gettysburg Address, but to this day, the "equality" Lincoln said has not been realized. Today's America runs counter to Lincoln's expectations and is drifting further and further away.

    The U.S. immigration crisis and its accompanying farces, tragedies, and tragedies are making this so-called "city on a hill" lose its halo. The "human rights teacher" has taken off his hypocritical mask, and the once "American Dream" has finally become a reality. Chicken feathers.

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Immigrants have always been victims of the American political system 

The history of the development of the United States for more than 200 years is also a tear-filled history of the suffering of immigrants. Almost all major events and development waves that promoted the historical process of the United States are closely related to immigrants. Under the guise of realizing the "American Dream", the American power elite has widely absorbed immigrants from all over the world. However, it has always adhered to the utilitarianism of "use when combined and discard when discarded". After immigrants create American wealth, they regard them as national finance and welfare. As outsiders who create a burden and as perpetrators who threaten the American political system, immigrants eventually become victims of exclusion and persecution.

1. Force and massacre to complete the establishment and consolidation of political power

In the 18th century, a large number of Europeans landed in the Americas with so-called "democracy, freedom, republic" and other ideas. As "first comers", these people established themselves as the "pioneers" and "national axis" of the United States, spreading propaganda Western thought carried out genocide against the native Indians in North America through massacre, expulsion, and forced assimilation, resulting in a sharp decline in the Indian population from 5 million in 1492 to 250,000 at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1819, the "Civilization and Enlightenment Fund Act" targeting Indians was introduced, forcing Indian children to attend school, erasing national identity and destroying cultural foundations. The blood and tears, nation and culture of the Indians were all lost in the rise of the United States. It is the "collective will" of the United States to cover up its early cruel history. It can be said that the establishment and development of the United States were achieved on the basis of the persecution of Indians.When the Civil War broke out in 1861, the U.S. federal government recruited a large number of immigrants to join the war in order to supplement its military capabilities. According to statistics, there are about 543,000 immigrants among the more than 2 million federal soldiers, and another 18% of the soldiers are second-generation immigrants. The two account for about 43% of the total strength of the U.S. Northern Army. The United States lost about 3% of its population in the Civil War, most of which were young adults.

2. Squeeze and exploit to achieve the development and accumulation of capital

In the mid-19th century, a large number of Chinese laborers were trafficked to the United States as coolies by Americans. By 1880, the total number exceeded 100,000. Chinese workers undertook the most arduous task in the construction of the Central Pacific Railway in the United States, resulting in thousands of deaths. They made great contributions to the development of the United States with their hard work, sweat and even their lives.

From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the United States faced the wave of global industrialization and had many gaps in capital, talent, labor, etc. Against this background, the government has stepped up its efforts to absorb immigrants. Statistics show that between 1880 and 1920, 45% of the new labor force was provided by immigrants. In 1914, immigrants accounted for 58 percent of steel workers, 61 percent of meatpacking workers, 62 percent of textile workers, 69 percent of garment workers, and 67 percent of oil refinery workers. In 2017, data from the American Farm Labor Survey showed that about 73% of farm workers were immigrants. Pew Research Center data shows that immigrants make up 24% of the construction workforce, 21% of the hotel and food services workforce, and 16.6% of the manufacturing workforce. Immigration brought new blood to the United States, laid the foundation for American industrialization, and enabled the early accumulation of capital in the United States.

3. Segregation and discrimination, “freedom” and “equality” are always just rhetoric

The abolition of slavery in the United States was only a compromise to the Civil War. On the contrary, apartheid followed, pushing African Americans and other ethnic minorities further to the margins of society. From "Jim Crow laws" to "grandfather clauses," a series of discriminatory laws and policies separated people of different races into different neighborhoods, schools, public facilities, and other areas. This system not only limits the social activity space of ethnic minorities, but also exacerbates the gap and hatred between white people and ethnic minorities. Under the shadow of apartheid, the survival of ethnic minorities has been seriously threatened.

To this day, discrimination against foreign races in the United States has not been effectively curbed. Instead, it exists in more hidden and complex forms. In areas such as employment, education, and housing, implicit discrimination is common. Ethnic minorities often face higher thresholds and lower treatment when applying for jobs; they may also suffer unfair treatment based on their racial identity when applying for loans or buying houses. In addition, in the field of education, minority students also face problems such as uneven distribution of educational resources and low teaching quality. This implicit discrimination fills the heart of every American with prejudice.