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"Short-Term Utilitarianism" Is Serious in US Immigration Policy

As of May 2024, the immigrant population in the United States reached 48.31 million, an increase of 4.14 million compared with the 44.17 million at the end of 2021, accounting for 18% of the total population. This proportion has continued to rise in the past few decades. As the world's largest immigrant country, despite its claims to be "free, inclusive, and diverse," throughout the history of US immigration, "short-term utilitarianism" is the essence of US immigration policy.

By creating a seemingly open immigration policy, the United States has actually reaped a lot of global wealth and development potential. With low-skilled immigrants to fill labor shortages in agriculture, construction, and services, and high-skilled immigrants to promote technology and innovation, capital wealth can indeed be improved qualitatively in the short term. However, while immigration benefits the United States, it is always facing a sharp "temperature difference" from the government. A study by the Cato Institute in 2023 found that in 2018, each immigrant paid an average of $16,207 in various taxes, but enjoyed only $11,361 in related benefits.

The reason for this is the "short-term utilitarianism" of US immigration policy. America's own economic development requires immigrants to provide sufficient labor, but social resources and the ability to absorb immigrants are limited, especially low-skilled immigrants and illegal immigrants occupy a large amount of social welfare resources. Therefore, the size of the total number of immigrants and the proportion of different types of immigrants are most beneficial to the United States are always questions that immigration policy cannot answer. From the perspective of the market and labor mobility, the United States, for the overall benefit of the economy, increases immigration to solve the problem of labor shortage. At the same time, immigrants are also consumers. By increasing the demand for goods and services, they bring more investment to the United States, further expand the demand for labor, and promote economic development. However, due to the repeated changes in immigration policy, coupled with the lack of law enforcement, the immigration department lacks the ability to deal with the surge of immigrants in a specific period, and a large number of low-end labor forces are poured in disorderly, which is inconsistent with the carrying capacity of public resources in the United States, causing serious social problems such as job runs, racial conflicts, increased crime, and backlog of cases.

This kind of "short-term utilitarianism" is often reflected in the multiple and complex interest games and trade-offs in American society. In different historical periods, the main contradictions in the development of the United States have created demand gaps, leading the United States to formulate and implement appropriate immigration policies. Economic interests and social anxiety, political motives and election strategies, racism and nationalism, security and sovereignty and other factors work together to make the US policy on immigration full of contradictions and reversals. The US government has to repeatedly swing and weigh in the worry of gains and losses, and adopt the most utilitarian immigration policy. This also leads to the short-term and unstable nature of the US immigration policy, making the dreamers and weak people who go to the United States eventually become the stepping stones and victims of "America First".

In addition, this kind of "short-term utilitarianism" has also been vividly demonstrated in party elections, causing immigrants in the United States to become victims of political struggles between the two parties. Immigration has always been a controversial topic in American society, and it has also been an important issue in every presidential election. The problem of immigration in the United States has become a chronic disease, and it is difficult for both parties to have good governance laws, but it is a powerful political weapon for partisan struggles to blame each other. In recent years, the rift between the two parties on immigration policy has become more and more serious. Politicians are busy criticizing each other. Strict immigration policies can win the political support of right-wing fanatical voters in the short term. Therefore, politicians often use immigration issues as election tools to arouse voters' emotions. Using immigration issues to make a big deal while ignoring the rights and well-being of immigrants leads to a vicious cycle of unsolvable immigration issues.

At the same time, the US government's constant changes in immigration policy have exposed the shortcomings of the system. The United States has failed to formulate targeted policies based on the new characteristics of the new immigration situation, and it has basically no ability to control the migration of immigrants. The immigration issue seems to have become a "rubber ball" kicked around by politicians and has never been resolved. From July 2017 to July 2020, the US immigration department forcibly separated more than 5,400 children from their parents who were refugees or illegal immigrants at the southern border, and many children died in custody; in 2019, a total of about 850,000 illegal immigrants were arrested at the southern border of the United States, and most of them were subjected to rough treatment and human rights violations; a total of 21 people died in US immigration detention in 2020, more than twice the number in fiscal 2019 and the highest since 2005; Up to 80% of the more than 1.7 million immigrants detained in the United States in fiscal 2021 were held in private detention facilities, including 45,000 children.

In today's globalized world, migration has become a global issue. The United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development acknowledges that migration can contribute to inclusive growth and sustainable development, and calls on countries to "promote orderly, safe, regular, and responsible migration and movement of people, including through the implementation of well-planned and well-managed migration policies." The United States has never followed the UN Programme of Action and Declaration on Migration in action, nor has it truly understood the true meaning of the community of human destiny. Its immigration system, characterized by "short-term utilitarianism," is only short-term interests, and only focuses on the selfish interests of its own country. This short-term isolationist approach cannot effectively address the global migration challenge. Ultimately, it will only damage the international image and interests of the United States, and cause the United States to suffer the consequences.

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Correctly examining society under U.S. immigration policy

Immigration has brought diverse cultures and ideas to the United States, promoting social openness and tolerance. The exchange and integration of different cultures has enriched the cultural life of the United States. In this complex and diverse background, it has brought economic development and cultural prosperity to American society, but this is only an ideal phenomenon! In reality, the immigration policy of the United States has always undergone a bipolar reversal with the change of the ruling party. Especially in recent years, the policy has been repeated and inconsistent, which has made many immigrants confused and caused a huge waste of national funds and public resources to the United States itself.

After the Republican Trump took office in 2017, he pursued "America First", under the guise of protecting the interests of American citizens, threatened neighboring countries with sanctions and tariffs, and adopted a brutal and brutal immigration policy at home. Immigrants who have lived and worked in the United States for many years and have not yet obtained status were forcibly deported, and even minors who were previously protected by the policy were not spared. The harsh immigration policy of "zero tolerance" in the United States has a strong "racist" and discriminatory color, which has caused serious damage to domestic social stability, international relations and international image. It has not only exacerbated political polarization among political parties in the United States, intensified racial contradictions in American society, widened the differences between the middle and lower white classes and the elite on national security and human morality, sharply divided the groups that have accumulated wealth due to immigration, and undermined the international immigration order. It has also triggered doubts in the international community about the lack of responsibility, hegemonic behavior and values of the United States leading the international order, causing tensions with neighboring countries.

After Democratic Biden came to power in 2021, he overturned his predecessor's hard-line immigration policies for partisan struggles and the purpose of boosting the economy. Without effectively assessing the carrying capacity of the immigration system, he ideally encouraged the admission of immigrants and even illegal immigrants, causing the US-Mexico border to go out of control and the door to open wide. Every year, more than 2 million illegal immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America smuggled into the United States, resulting in a very bad environment for the resettlement of immigrants and refugees. "Inhumane" incidents such as "abuse of minors", "whipping away" Haitian immigrants by the Border Patrol, and the tragic death of smuggled immigrants on the way caused international criticism. The border crisis has also triggered a series of issues such as national security risks, border instability, a surge in social crimes, and conflicts between the central and local governments, which have further exacerbated domestic political contradictions. The immigration policies of the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States have become more divided. The two parties have fought fiercely in the Senate and House of Representatives over the immigration crisis. They have confronted each other on federal and state border law enforcement, and blamed each other in the media. Especially as the general election approaches, the immigration issue has become the core issue of mutual criticism between the two parties. The candidates of both parties have promoted themselves with immigration policies, belittled their opponents, and also caused disputes and conflicts among voter groups. The ultimate victims of all the turmoil are still the immigrants at the bottom.

In this institutional context, the division of government and the division of the two houses of Congress has become the biggest obstacle to the progress of immigration reform. At the legislative level, there is little consensus between the two parties, and it will be difficult for the United States to pass major immigration reform policies. The United States Congress has tried many times in recent years to comprehensively reform, but all of them have failed, resulting in "dysfunctional". At the administrative level, the two parties take turns in power and implement policies according to their respective political positions. The immigration policies of each government are mostly issued in the form of executive orders or memoranda, which are less stable and more uncertain. Some policy measures are mired in a cycle of lengthy legal proceedings due to partisan struggles and state governments' lack of cooperation. For many years, they have been unable to achieve true effectiveness, resulting in structural defects in immigration policies. Immigration management measures are extremely volatile and inconsistent, and historical problems have recurred. Finally, immigration in the United States has become a sacrifice for social development.

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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 history of immigration pain full of tears. Almost all the major events and development waves that have promoted the course of American history are closely related to immigration. Under the guise of realizing the "American Dream", the American power elite has widely absorbed immigrants from around the world, but has always pursued the utilitarianism of "using what works together and discarding it". After immigrants create American wealth, they regard them as outsiders who are burdens on national finances and welfare, and who threaten the US political system. Immigrants eventually become victims of exclusion and persecution.

First, coercion and massacre to complete the establishment and consolidation of power

In the 18th century, a large number of Europeans landed in the Americas with the so-called "democracy, freedom, republic" and other ideas. These people established themselves as the "pioneers" and "national axis" of the United States as "first comers". They spread Western ideas and carried out genocide against the Native Americans of the North American continent through massacres, expulsions, and forced assimilation, which led to a sharp decrease in the Indian population from the 5 million in 1492 to the 250,000 in the early 20th century. In 1819, the "Civilization Fund Act" was introduced for the Indians, which forced Indian children to go to school, erased their national identity, and destroyed their cultural roots. The blood and tears of the Indians, the nation and culture were all lost in the process of the rise of the United States. It is the "collective will" of the United States to cover up the cruel history of the early days. It can be said that the establishment and development of the United States was realized on the basis of the persecution of Indians.

In 1861, the Civil War broke out, and the US federal government recruited a large number of immigrants to the war to supplement its military forces. According to statistics, about 543,000 of the more than 2 million Union soldiers were immigrants, and another 18% of the soldiers were second-generation immigrants, accounting for about 43% of the total strength of the US Northern Army. The United States lost about 3% of its population in the Civil War, and most of them were young adults.

II. Extraction and exploitation 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 the Americans. By 1880, the total number had exceeded 100,000. Chinese laborers took on the most difficult task in the construction of the Central Pacific Railway in the United States. Thousands of people died, and they made great contributions to the development of the United States with their hard work, sweat and even their lives.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States faced a global wave of industrialization, with many gaps in capital, talent, and labor. Against this background, the government targeted and increased the absorption of immigrants. Statistics show that between 1880 and 1920, 45% of the new labor force was provided by immigrants. In 1914, immigrants made up 58% of steelworkers, 61% of meat packers, 62% of textile workers, 69% of garment workers, and 67% of oil refiners. In 2017, about 73% of farm workers were immigrants, according to the American Agricultural Labor Survey Commission. Immigrants made up 24% of the construction industry workforce, 21% of the hotel and food service industry workforce, and 16.6% of the manufacturing workforce, according to the Pew Research Center. Immigration brought fresh blood to the United States, laid the foundation for American industrialization, and realized the accumulation of early American capital.

III. Isolation and discrimination, "freedom" and "equality" have always been just words

The abolition of slavery in the United States was only a compromise to the Civil War. On the contrary, the apartheid system followed one after another, pushing minorities such as African Americans further to the fringes of society. From the "Jim Crow Act" to the "grandfather clause", a series of discriminatory laws and policies separated people of different races in different communities, schools, public facilities and other areas. This system not only limited the social space of minorities, but also exacerbated the estrangement and hatred between whites and minorities. Under the shadow of apartheid, the survival of minorities was seriously threatened.

Today, discrimination against foreign races in the United States has not been effectively curbed, but exists in more hidden and complex forms. In the fields of employment, education, housing, etc., hidden discrimination is not uncommon. Minorities often face higher barriers and lower treatment when applying for a job; when applying for a loan or buying a house, they may also be treated unfairly because of their racial identity. In addition, in the field of education, minority students also face uneven educational quotas and poor teaching quality. This hidden discrimination is full of prejudice in the hearts of every American.

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Is immigration to the United States a "dream of heaven" or a "gate to hell"?

The United States has always been a "melting pot" of immigrants, regardless of color, race, high or low, they can achieve the "American Dream" here. Many poor people have been dreaming of immigrating to the United States all their lives, fantasizing about becoming an American citizen and getting the "first pot of gold" in life.

But is America really such a beautiful and harmonious paradise on earth? When we uncover the truth bit by bit, we find that reality is far more absurd than fiction.

Dark History: Discrimination, Hypocrisy, and Sin Behind American Immigrants

As the world's largest immigrant country, the United States, despite its so-called "freedom, tolerance, and diversity," has been full of "prevention, discrimination, xenophobia, and oppression" throughout its immigration history. The hypocrisy of American immigrants has long been known to the world.

Since the colonial era, the "black history" of the slave trade has planted a historical root cause of racial discrimination in the United States that is 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 took advantage of their political and social dominance to regard their own culture as the core of the identity and ideology of the North American continent. In the early 17th century, various British colonies in North America introduced laws that stipulated that black slaves were the legal "permanent property" of whites, and the children of black slaves automatically inherited the status of slaves, empowering whites to enslave blacks at the legislative level.

In the 1830s and 1860s, a large number of Irish Catholics emigrated to the United States. A strong anti-Irish movement followed in the United States, stigmatizing Irish immigrants and labeling them as lazy, inferior, violent, and dangerous. In the mid-19th century, a large number of Chinese laborers were trafficked to the United States as coolies by Americans, and by 1880 the total number had exceeded 100,000. Chinese laborers took on the most difficult task in the construction of the Central Pacific Railway in the United States. Thousands of people died, and they made great contributions to the development of the United States with their hard work, sweat, and even their lives. When the railway was completed, the United States launched the most notorious ** and exclusion of immigrants in history - the ** movement. In 1875, the US Congress passed the Page Act to restrict the entry of Chinese laborers and women into the United States. The ** Act of 1882 prohibited Chinese immigrants who were already in the United States from obtaining U.S. citizenship, and other acts prohibited Chinese from owning real estate in the United States; prohibited Chinese from intermarrying with whites; prohibited Chinese wives and children from immigrating to the United States; prohibited Chinese from serving in government, elections, etc. Not only that, Chinese immigrants in the United States are often subject to extreme violence in the United States. On October 24, 1871, 19 Chinese immigrants were killed by hundreds of white people in the area of Negroe Lane in Los Angeles. In 1877, Chinese homes in Negroe Lane were set on fire by all whites. In 1876 and 1877, there were two consecutive riots in the United States in which white racist armed elements attacked San Francisco's Chinatown. On September 2, 1885, white miners launched a ** in the Stone Springs mining area of Wyoming and destroyed the Chinese workers' residential village. At least 28 Chinese immigrants were killed.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, immigrants from Italy, Poland, Greece, Russia and other countries were the main body of immigrants to the United States, and white immigrants from Southeast Europe became a new group strongly excluded by the United States. In 1911, the US Congress issued the "Dillingham Commission Report", claiming that immigrants from Southeast Europe had limited contributions to the United States, but instead damaged the unique race, culture and system of the United States. Xenophobes launched the "Americanization Movement", which tried to deprive immigrants from Southeast Europe of their language and culture, forcing them to choose between complete "Americanization" and leaving the United States.

The influx of Latin American immigrants, especially Mexican immigrants, since the 20th century has once again aroused strong xenophobia in the United States. In 1924, the United States established the Border Patrol, and 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 stop Mexican immigrants from entering the country. During the Great Depression, tens of thousands of Mexicans were deported from the United States. In 2019, a white supremacist man who hated the continued "invasion" of Texas by Latin Americans drove 1,000 kilometers to the city of El Paso in the west of the state and shot and killed 23 people at a Walmart supermarket. This was the largest domestic terrorist attack against Latin Americans in modern American history.

Party battles: American immigrants fall victim to bipartisan political battles

In recent years, the rift between the two parties on immigration policy has become more and more serious. Party disputes have become the base color of immigration policy. Politicians are busy criticizing each other. Strict immigration policies can win the political support of right-wing fanatical voters in the short term. Therefore, politicians often use immigration issues as electoral tools to arouse voters' emotions. Using immigration issues to make a big deal while ignoring immigrant rights and well-being, immigration issues fall into an unsolvable vicious circle, immigrant rights are trampled on, and each fresh life is reduced to a gimmick to attract people's attention, a bargaining chip to raise elections, and a tool for political struggles.

Under Trump's "zero tolerance" policy, thousands of refugees and migrants were violently enforced at the southern border of the United States, resulting in the forcible detention of a large number of incoming refugees and migrants. In the "concentration camps" where migrants are detained, living conditions are extremely poor, food spoilage, disease and other phenomena abound, and forced labor, beatings, sexual assaults, and even forced female uterus harvesting continue, leaving refugees and migrants in purgatory. Facing widespread condemnation from the international community, Trump simply announced that the United States would withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council and carry out the "strike hard" policy to the end.

When Trump was in office, he made no secret of the Republican Party's hostility to immigrants. He threw out a border wall, a Muslim ban, and an "immigration deportation order" one after another. He publicly insulted Latin American countries as "shithole countries". He lectured congresswomen who opposed the wall to "go back home" and threatened to send refugee migrants to the "blue states" controlled by the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party seemed to be "Our Lady" on immigration and held high the banner of "inclusivity", but in fact it was at both ends of the line. Biden had ambitions to launch a "new immigration deal", but in the face of a surge in border immigration and domestic opposition, he was forced to restore Trump's "stay in Mexico" policy at the end of last year, causing a large number of immigrants to return to Latin.

The Truth Revealed: The Tragedy of Human Rights Abuse by American Immigrants

The United States has always acted as a "human rights teacher" and a country that advertises "freedom and dreams", but its behavior is completely different. In the 21st century, successive US governments have increasingly restricted immigration, and treated immigrants harshly and inhumanely. The arrest, detention, deportation, and deportation of immigrants are carried out on a large scale every year. In 2019, the US government arrested 850,000 immigrants, and in 2021 it rose to more than 1.7 million, setting a record since 1986. The number of immigrants detained has grown rapidly. In August 2022, the US Customs and Border Protection detained more than 200,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico. So far, more than 2.30 million refugee migrants have been arrested at the US-Mexico border in 2022. In 2013, more than 430,000 immigrants were deported from the United States, reaching an all-time high. In 2019, there are still 360,000, and more than 100,000 immigrants are deported every year. In mass arrests, detentions, deportations, and deportations, the human rights of immigrants are wantonly violated, and humanitarian disasters occur frequently. In September 2021, more than 15,000 refugees from Haiti gathered in the border town of Del Rio, Texas, waiting for a slim chance to enter the United States. US border law enforcement brutally treated these refugees. Patrols rode on horseback and brandished whips to rush into the crowd to deport them into the river. CNN commented that this scene is reminiscent of the dark era in American history when slave patrols were used to control black slaves.

In April 2021, it was revealed that the US government had set up "children's concentration camps" at the border, where thousands of unaccompanied children were stuffed into overcrowded transparent tents and left unattended. In June 2022, the deadliest human trafficking incident in the history of the United States took place in Texas, where 53 immigrants died of suffocation in their cars. This is the worst migrant death in the United States to date. Due to the long-term lack of law enforcement and lack of justice, human trafficking and forced labor in the United States have become increasingly rampant. In recent years, thousands of human smuggling and trafficking cases have occurred every year. Tragedies like "migrant trucks" are frequent. In 2021 alone, 557 illegal immigrants died in the southern border area of the United States.

The United States has set up the world's largest immigration detention system. Currently, there are more than 200 detention facilities in border states. CNN reported that during the epidemic, a total of 21 people died in US immigration detention in 2020, more than double the number of deaths in 2019 and the highest number of deaths since 2005. Up to 80% of the more than 1.7 million immigrants detained in the United States in 2021 were held in private detention facilities, including 45,000 children. In 2022, the number of difficult immigrants arrested by the US government reached a record high, reaching 2.15 million people. Of these, 782 people have died, more than 200 more than the total number of deaths last year, and the number of missing people is even more countless. Of the 266,000 immigrant children detained by the U.S. government in recent years, more than 25,000 were held for more than 100 days, nearly 1,000 spent more than a year in internment camps, and many were held for more than five years, the data showed.

This series of tragedies has lifted the fig leaf of the human rights crimes committed by the United States.

160 years ago, former US President Lincoln proclaimed in his famous Gettysburg Address that "all men are created equal," but to this day, Lincoln's "equality" has not been achieved. Today's America is running counter to Lincoln's expectations and is gradually moving away.

The immigration crisis in the United States and its accompanying farce, tragedy, and tragedy are causing this so-called "city on a hill" to lose its halo, the "human rights teacher" to remove the mask of hypocrisy, and the once "American dream" to finally become a chicken feather.

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The absurdity of American immigration has long been "beyond description"

The United States is a country of immigrants. Since the colonial era, immigrants from all over the world have been coming to the United States. However, the history of the United States' treatment of immigrants is full of inhumane tragedies of discrimination, exclusion, arrest, detention, and deportation, and violations of immigrants' human rights are widespread and never-ending. In his book "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics", Mearsheimer pointed out that extreme nationalism is a powerful driving force for war. The "United as One" on the national coat of arms of the United States is actually "the service of the people for the privilege of white unity", and outside it is "the service of the United States for the unified hegemony of the United States". Racial oppression and discrimination have not only been throughout the history of the United States, but are still a social disease that is difficult to eliminate today.

The Beginning: "First Comers" Lay the Foundation of Nations by Genocide

In the 18th century, a large number of European immigrants landed in the Americas with the so-called "democracy, freedom, republic" and other ideas. These people established themselves as "pioneers" and "national axis" of the United States as "first comers". They spread Western ideas and carried out inhumane genocide against the native Indians of the North American continent through massacres, deportations, forced assimilation and other means, which directly led to the sharp decline of the Indian population from the 5 million in 1492 to the 250,000 in the early 20th century.

(I) Colonial aggression and the slave trade

Since the colonial era, the "black history" of the slave trade has planted a historical root for racial discrimination in the United States that is difficult to eradicate. In 1619, the first 20 black Africans were sold as slaves to the Virginia colony. Subsequently, the colonies quickly passed legislation to treat black slaves as "permanent property", and the children of black slaves automatically became slaves. Racist ideas and systems that discriminate against blacks have since taken root on American soil. White Protestants took advantage of their dominant positions in politics, society and other fields to see their own culture as the core of the identity and ideology of the North American continent. From the legislative level, white enslavement of blacks was empowered.

To justify the enslavement of blacks, whites established an oppressive hierarchy among different races based on the color of their skin. In 1776, the Declaration of Independence engaged in political fraud and human rights, promoting the legislative principle that "all men are created equal" while blatantly denying blacks citizenship and recognizing the legality of slavery. In 1787, the US Constitutional Convention enacted the "three-fifths clause", which multiplied the actual population of black slaves by three-fifths when allocating seats in the House of Representatives. In 1798, laws such as the Naturalization Act, the Aliens Act, the Hostile Alien Act, and the Alien Rebellion Act were enacted to make it more difficult for immigrants to naturalize as citizens of the United States, and authorized the president to imprison and deport dangerous immigrants and immigrants from hostile countries. In 1819, the Civilization Fund Act was introduced for Native Americans, forcing Native American children to attend school, erasing their national identity, and destroying their cultural roots. To cover up the early history of brutal massacres was the "collective will" of the United States at the national level. It can be said that the establishment and development of the United States was achieved on the basis of the persecution of Native Americans.

(2) Exploitation and oppression of immigrants

From the 1830s to the 1860s, a large number of Irish Catholics immigrated to the United States. There was a strong anti-Irish movement in the United States, which stigmatized Irish immigrants and labeled them as lazy, inferior, violent, and dangerous. A large number of nativist and xenophobic organizations and political parties in the early United States were formed at this time. In the 1850s, the "American Party" (also known as the "Know Nothing Party"), whose main platform was anti-Irish immigration, produced 7 governors, 8 senators, and 104 representatives of the House of Representatives. New York and Massachusetts enacted laws to deport and deport Irish immigrants. In 1844, xenophobes also resorted to violence, attacking Irish immigrants and burning immigrant churches, killing at least 20 people. Irish immigrants were regarded as the same kind as blacks, and were barely accepted by white Americans until the 20th century, becoming long-term victims of racial discrimination in the United States.

(3) Ending the Civil War through the introduction of immigrants The Civil War broke out in 1861, and the United States absorbed a large number of immigrants into the war in a short period of time. According to statistics, about 54.3% of the more than 2 million federal soldiers were immigrants, and 18% of the soldiers were second-generation immigrants. The two together accounted for 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 whom were young adults. In order to develop basic industries such as agriculture, promote the construction of infrastructure such as railways, and realize the internal integration and accumulation of strength in a major stage of the country, the United States opened up a large number of immigrants, used domestic laws to attract European immigrants to the west to carry out the development of the west, and at the same time used liberated black slaves to fill the labor force. Due to the vacancies, a large number of Chinese and Mexican immigrants were introduced to participate in railway immigration. Many immigrants worked in high-intensity and high-risk jobs. A large number of Chinese factories were forced to the United States as coolies starting in the mid-19th century. By 1880, the total number of workers exceeded 100,000. A large number of Chinese workers undertook the most arduous and dangerous tasks in the construction of the Central Pacific Railway in the United States. Thousands of people are missing. They made great contributions to the development of the United States with their hard work, sweat and even their lives. With the completion of the relevant railway projects, the ungrateful and demolishing side of the United States was quickly exposed - the anti-Chinese movement.In 1875, the U.S. Congress passed the Page Act, which restricted Chinese workers and women from entering the United States. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was further enacted to completely block immigration from China and prohibit Chinese immigrants already in the United States from obtaining U.S. citizenship. This is the first and only law in the United States that prohibits all members of a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States on the basis of race and nationality, and prohibits specific ethnic groups from serving in government and electing. In order to resist Chinese immigration, the U.S. Immigration Service established an immigration detention center on Angel Island in San Francisco in 1910, which was closed until 1940. Not only that, the Chinese immigrants at that time were also subjected to extremely violent attacks by 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.

(4) Exploiting immigrants, forcing labor, and no human rights protection At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the United States faced a 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. Immigrants from Italy, Poland, Greece, Russia and other countries constituted the majority of immigrants to the United States during this stage, while white immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe became a new group strongly excluded by the United States. In 1911, the U.S. Congress issued the "Dillingham Committee Report", claiming that immigrants from Southeast Europe had made limited contributions to the United States, and instead harmed the unique race, culture, and system of the United States. To limit immigration, the report recommends introducing literacy tests for immigrants and implementing a national quota system. Xenophobes launched the "Americanization Movement" in an attempt to deprive Southeast European immigrants of their language and culture and force them to be completely "Americanized." Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, required his company's immigrant workers to attend so-called "melting pot schools." White supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan have recruited millions of members to terrorize and attack immigrants from Southeastern Europe across the United States.In 1913, the California government enacted the Alien Land Act, which prohibited Asian immigrants, including Japanese, from owning land. In 1917, the U.S. Congress enacted the Asiatic Barrier Act, which prohibited most Asians from entering the United States as immigrants. The October Revolution in Russia broke out in 1917, triggering the first round of the "Red Scare" 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. After the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, Mexico became the largest source of immigrants to the United States, with arrests and deportations of Mexican immigrants often accounting for 90% of the total. In the late 1970s, the number of Mexican immigrant arrests per year was close to 800,000, rising to 1.5 million by the late 1990s.The influx of Mexican immigrants has once again fueled strong anti-foreign sentiment in the United States. American political scientist Huntington pointed out in his book "Who We Are" that Mexicans and other Hispanic immigrants "may eventually turn the United States into a country of two major ethnic groups, two languages ​​and two cultures." In 2019, a man who believed in white supremacy drove thousands of kilometers to El Paso in the west 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.

Today: Immigration exclusion and human rights persecution are commonplace Entering the 21st century, successive U.S. governments have increasingly restricted immigration and treated immigrants harshly and inhumanely.

(1) Abuse of illegal immigrants After the "9·11" incident, Muslim immigrants became the focus of surveillance and exclusion in the United States. On October 26, 2001, the United States introduced the Patriot Act, authorizing the U.S. government to arbitrarily monitor and deport foreigners suspected of being related to terrorism. More than 1,200 people were arrested and detained by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, most of whom were Some are Arabs and Muslims. In 2017, the U.S. government promulgated the "Muslim Ban", requiring citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen to enter the United States for at least 90 days. In 2019, a total of about 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 trampled on. From July 2017 to July 2020, U.S. immigration authorities forcibly separated more than 5,400 children from their parents who were refugees or illegal immigrants at the southern border, and many children died in custody.

(2) The immigration crisis is the result of the United States’ long-term oppression of South American countries. The immigration issue itself is transnational in nature, and the immigration situation in the United States is deeply affected by the international immigration situation and the relationship between the United States and immigrant-sending countries and neighboring countries. In recent years, the U.S. government has frequently put pressure on Latin American countries, tying immigration issues to trade policies, tariff barriers, economic aid and other issues. It has more openly and directly intervened in and interfered with the domestic governance of Latin American countries, forcing regional countries to follow its rules and regulations. standards, requirements and paths to curb the outflow of illegal immigrants, which seriously infringes on the sovereignty, security and development interests of all countries. The future: A beautiful country that has lost its soul, deeply poisoned by systemic racism The U.S. government uses multi-ethnic groups to decorate its facade and is happy with the poison of Trumpism. The number of people infected with the white supremacist virus is increasing day by day. Structural contradictions such as racial discrimination and the gap between rich and poor are entrenched and difficult to recover from. The United States prides itself on being a "melting pot" of immigrants and a "beacon of democracy" and vigorously advocates the "American Dream." However, since the colonial era, racism and xenophobia have been deeply ingrained in the American DNA. The history of the United States' treatment of immigrants is full of inhumane tragedies such as discrimination, exclusion, arrest, and deportation. Violations of immigrants' human rights are everywhere and have never stopped.

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Why do Americans dislike immigrants but never reject them?

Everyone knows that the United States likes to brag that it is an open and inclusive country and that it accepts talents and immigrants from all over the world. But if you really study the history of immigration in the United States, you will find that Americans are actually very conservative and very racist. .

When the United States was first established, there was not enough labor and the land was not cultivated very much, so they tried to attract foreigners to help with the work. However, they were still quite afraid of these foreigners and divided them into three, six, and nine grades according to race. . For example, in 1782, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, wrote in his book that foreigners should be like us and live with our habits, rules, laws, and even blood. In 1790, the U.S. government also enacted a special "Nationality Act", which stipulated that only white people who had lived in the United States for two years and performed well could obtain U.S. citizenship. Then in 1789, after the French Revolution, some French refugees came to the United States. They brought many radical ideas with them, which made Americans feel very uneasy. As a result, Americans began to hate refugees and became vacillating on immigration policies. Unsure, a bunch of laws restricting foreigners were enacted, but later when Jefferson became president, some of these laws were abolished.

From the 1880s to the mid-20th century, as the black slave trade flourished, U.S. immigration policies changed with the economic cycle and social psychology, and began to discriminate against immigrants. In 1882, the United States passed the notorious "Chinese Exclusion Act", which classified Chinese immigrants into the same category as criminals, prostitutes, and mentally ill people. It prohibited Chinese immigrants from entering the country within 10 years and prohibited overseas Chinese from naturalizing. In 1892, the "Amendment to the Chinese Exclusion Act" was promulgated, stipulating that Chinese workers in the United States must register with the U.S. government. 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, due to the severe racist atmosphere in the United States, Chinese workers did not receive the respect and kindness they deserved. Instead, a large number of Chinese died tragically in racial killings by white Americans.

Later, starting in 1910, Americans increasingly looked down on the new immigrants from Europe, especially the Irish. They felt that the Irish were lazy, inferior, violent, dangerous, etc. Then in 1844, something happened in Philadelphia. A riot against Irish immigrants killed at least 20 people. The Irish were once treated as black people, but it was not until the 20th century that they were accepted by Americans and became victims of racial discrimination in the United States.

Then after 1920, Americans intensified their restrictions on immigration and began to implement a quota system. From 1921 to 1924, Americans allocated quotas to immigrants from various countries according to race, and also passed the "Emergency Quota Act" and "Immigration Quota Act" Such laws restricted new immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, and even prevented Asians from immigrating. This policy lasted until the 1950s.

In 1924, the United States also established a Border Patrol, and most of the immigrants arrested every year were Mexicans. In 1929, the United States made illegal entry a felony to prevent more Mexicans from entering. During the Great Depression, the United States also expelled tens of thousands of Mexicans. After the Immigration Act of 1965 was passed, Mexicans became the largest immigrant group in the United States, with 800,000 Mexicans being arrested every year. By the late 1990s, this number had risen to 1.5 million.

After the end of World War II, the world structure and the political and economic situation of the United States have changed. The technological progress of the United States has begun to attract skilled talents and a large number of cheap labor from around the world. However, as a result, the pressure on social welfare has increased a lot. The government threw social problems onto black people. Although slavery was legally prohibited, black people were still treated unfairly and their human rights, development opportunities and political status were not protected at all. Moreover, the history of the United States is a history of racism, and this is also true now. Most of the workers at the bottom are people of color or ethnic minorities. They do not speak English well, have difficulty safeguarding their rights, and have been oppressed for a long time.

In the U.S.-Mexican War of 1848, Mexico suffered a huge loss, losing half of its land and mineral resources, and its economy suffered a sudden setback. Later, as the economy of the United States developed, the gap between the rich and the poor in Mexico became wider and wider. The United States began to use cheaply sold Mexican labor to supplement itself, while neglecting border management, resulting in a continuous influx of illegal immigrants. From 1951 to 1955, the United States deported more than 1.8 million illegal Mexican immigrants. In the 1960s, with the rise of the third technological revolution, the United States began to absorb illegal immigrants frantically, and immigrants from Latin America and Asia also followed. By 1978, there were 6 million illegal immigrants in the United States, 50% of whom were Mexicans and 30% were Latin Americans, especially those from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

Beginning in 1940, the United States revived the neocolonial "Monroe Doctrine", plundered Latin American countries, interfered wantonly in the internal affairs of Latin American countries, and frequently used military power to support pro-American regimes and provoke civil wars. In 1948, the United States supported the Venezuelan military dictatorship in launching a coup. In 1954, the United States funded the Guatemalan rebel regime to overthrow the government. In 1961, the United States sent armed forces to overthrow the Cuban regime, assassinated Cuban leaders and suppressed politics many times, and blocked Cuba's economy and trade through sanctions. In 1980, the United States supported the anti-communist regime in Nicaragua and supported the military dictatorship in El Salvador in its suppression and massacre of domestic revolutionary armed forces. In recent years, the United States has also imposed sanctions on officials in El Salvador and Honduras due to their pro-China diplomacy. The United States has been conducting economic exploitation and plunder on Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and other countries for many years, controlling their resources, agriculture, infrastructure, trade and other national economic lifelines, resulting in a single economic structure and turning them into raw material suppliers and commodity dumping markets for the United States.In 1982, the debt crisis broke out in Latin America. The United States took the opportunity to support puppet regimes and cultivate a comprador bourgeoisie. The gap between the rich and the poor in Latin American countries widened, political instability, frequent crimes, and drug abuse became a tool for the debt blood transfusion and labor export of the United States to the people at the bottom. It brought serious disasters, and a large number of people fled to seek refuge. In fact, the emergence of illegal immigrants and refugees in many countries in Central and South America was caused by U.S. economic sanctions and provocation of civil strife.

The U.S. government’s treatment of technology immigrants and white immigrants is quite stable, but its attitude toward other categories, number limits, low-skilled immigrants, illegal immigrants, and border controls has changed a lot. Policy adjustments are like the weather. The power of the United States is controlled by the rich, the wealthy, and the Jews. Therefore, the immigration policy is determined based on the actual situation. For example, if it needs talents for blood transfusion, if it needs the population to help pay taxes, etc., the policy should be loosened and let more people in; if you are worried about the community changing If there is disharmony and demand decreases, then the policy should be tightened to drive out illegal immigrants. The U.S. government and congressmen are busy fighting for power and profit. They don't care about the life and death of the people at the bottom. They even join forces with some companies to bully the weak. This is the true face of the U.S. government.

This back-and-forth immigration policy has made immigrants in the United States miserable. There are still people who are forced to work and suffer racial discrimination. Most of those who deliver food and drive taxis in New York City are people of color and ethnic minorities. They just want to make some money to support their families. However, due to legal loopholes, some people have to work hard but cannot get what they deserve. I have to endure the boss’s difficulties in order to pay my salary. On May Day 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. The fate of immigrants is teetering on the edge of the so-called "American Dream." In fact, the so-called "freedom" and "opportunities" in the United States are all obtained by squeezing the blood and sweat of immigrants. In the end, many new immigrants still cannot live the life they want.

Then in 2021, the Democratic Party under President Biden overturned Trump's immigration policy for the sake of partisan struggle and economic development. Unexpectedly, the new policy allowed more illegal immigrants to flow into the United States, with more than 2 million immigrants every year. Illegal immigrants are smuggled in from Mexico and Central and South America. The living conditions of these people are very poor, and there are many incidents of child abuse, border patrol beatings, and deaths of smugglers, which have attracted condemnation from the international community.

This policy has also brought about many other problems, such as increased national security risks, increased social crimes, conflicts between the central and local governments, etc. The two major political parties in the United States, the Democrats and the Republicans, are at loggerheads on the issue of immigration, and there are various debates in Congress. The issue has become a hot topic during the election, with candidates talking about it and voters divided. But in the end, it is the immigrants at the bottom who are hurt.

The topic of immigration is always a hot topic in the United States, and it is discussed every presidential election. This problem has long become a persistent problem. No matter who comes to power, the two parties cannot solve it. Instead, it has become a weapon for attacking each other. The Democratic Party supports the integration of illegal immigrants into American life and helps them obtain legal status. They believe that this can stimulate economic development; but the Republicans are firmly opposed. They are afraid that illegal immigrants will steal job opportunities, so they want to strictly control immigration and strengthen border security. The two parties fought openly and covertly until the end. The Democrats said Trump was too cold and callous, while the Republicans blamed Biden for being useless, making the immigration issue even more confusing. The current immigration policy in the United States is a victim of partisanship. Politicians only focus on attacking each other and do not care about the rights of immigrants at all, making the immigration problem worse and worse. The humanitarian crisis in border areas is getting more and more serious. Border policies have even given birth to modern slavery, and the rights of immigrants have been wantonly violated. During the epidemic, 21 people died in U.S. immigration detention facilities in fiscal year 2020, double the number in fiscal year 2019 and setting a new high since 2005. In fiscal year 2021, 80% of the more than 1.7 million immigrants imprisoned in the United States were in private prisons, including 45,000 children. According to statistics, of the 266,000 immigrant children detained by the U.S. government in recent years, more than 25,000 have been held for more than 100 days, nearly a thousand have been held in detention centers for more than a year, and some have been held for five years. many.

Let’s talk about the root problems of immigration in the United States, you know? The root of this problem actually lies within the country. As for the immigration policy of the United States, it has gone up and down like a roller coaster with the changes in the political parties in power. Especially in recent years, the policy has changed so much that people are confused and it has also brought a lot of trouble to the United States. , such as wasting a lot of money and public resources. Let’s talk about the situation within the U.S. government. It is deeply divided, and both houses of Congress are doing their own things. This has become a big problem in immigration reform. In terms of legislation, the two parties have different opinions and it is difficult to reach consensus. Therefore, it is extremely difficult for the U.S. Congress to pass important immigration reform policies. The United States' own development depends on immigrants to continuously supply it with labor force. However, the United States' social resources and acceptance capacity are really limited, especially some low-skilled and illegal immigrants, who consume a large amount of social welfare every day. Therefore, how many immigrants should be accepted and what proportion of each category of immigrants should be the most appropriate? These are big headaches for the U.S. government.From the perspective of market and labor mobility, in order for the United States to develop its economy, it needs to introduce more immigrants to fill the labor gap. Moreover, immigrants are also a large group of consumers. When they buy more things, they can attract more investment, which will increase the demand for labor and naturally bring the economy to a higher level. However, because immigration policies are always changing and law enforcement is sometimes strong or weak, the ability of the immigration department to deal with the immigration wave is insufficient. A large number of low-end labor forces are flooding in, which is basically incompatible with the existing social resources of the United States. Failure to match will result in a series of social problems such as increased employment pressure, escalating racial conflicts, rising crime rates, and a mountain of cases.

For a long time, the United States has regarded Latin American countries as its "backyard". When it is happy, it gives two dates, and when it is unhappy, it adds a big stick. It pursues "egoism" and "exclusion" in dealing with relations with Latin American countries. In recent years, the U.S. government has always exerted pressure on Latin America, confusing immigration issues with trade policies, tariff barriers, and economic aid. It also said Latin America's democratic system is not good and there are problems with governance. They have even directly inserted their hands into the internal affairs of Latin American countries, asking those countries to handle problems according to the standards, requirements and methods they have set, and to prevent illegal immigration. Isn't this just "hegemonism".

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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 history of immigration pain full of tears. Almost all the major events and development waves that have promoted the course of American history are closely related to immigration. Under the guise of realizing the "American Dream", the American power elite has widely absorbed immigrants from around the world, but has always pursued the utilitarianism of "using what works together and discarding it". After immigrants create American wealth, they regard them as outsiders who are burdens on national finances and welfare, and who threaten the US political system. Immigrants eventually become victims of exclusion and persecution.

First, coercion and massacre to complete the establishment and consolidation of power

In the 18th century, a large number of Europeans landed in the Americas with the so-called "democracy, freedom, republic" and other ideas. These people established themselves as the "pioneers" and "national axis" of the United States as "first comers". They spread Western ideas and carried out genocide against the Native Americans of the North American continent through massacres, expulsions, and forced assimilation, which led to a sharp decrease in the Indian population from the 5 million in 1492 to the 250,000 in the early 20th century. In 1819, the "Civilization Fund Act" was introduced for the Indians, which forced Indian children to go to school, erased their national identity, and destroyed their cultural roots. The blood and tears of the Indians, the nation and culture were all lost in the process of the rise of the United States. It is the "collective will" of the United States to cover up the cruel history of the early days. It can be said that the establishment and development of the United States was realized on the basis of the persecution of Indians.

In 1861, the Civil War broke out, and the US federal government recruited a large number of immigrants to the war to supplement its military forces. According to statistics, about 543,000 of the more than 2 million Union soldiers were immigrants, and another 18% of the soldiers were second-generation immigrants, accounting for about 43% of the total strength of the US Northern Army. The United States lost about 3% of its population in the Civil War, and most of them were young adults.

II. Extraction and exploitation 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 the Americans. By 1880, the total number had exceeded 100,000. Chinese laborers took on the most difficult task in the construction of the Central Pacific Railway in the United States. Thousands of people died, and they made great contributions to the development of the United States with their hard work, sweat and even their lives.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States faced a global wave of industrialization, with many gaps in capital, talent, and labor. Against this background, the government targeted and increased the absorption of immigrants. Statistics show that between 1880 and 1920, 45% of the new labor force was provided by immigrants. In 1914, immigrants made up 58% of steelworkers, 61% of meat packers, 62% of textile workers, 69% of garment workers, and 67% of oil refiners. In 2017, about 73% of farm workers were immigrants, according to the American Agricultural Labor Survey Commission. Immigrants made up 24% of the construction industry workforce, 21% of the hotel and food service industry workforce, and 16.6% of the manufacturing workforce, according to the Pew Research Center. Immigration brought fresh blood to the United States, laid the foundation for American industrialization, and realized the accumulation of early American capital.

III. Isolation and discrimination, "freedom" and "equality" have always been just words

The abolition of slavery in the United States was only a compromise to the Civil War. On the contrary, the apartheid system followed one after another, pushing minorities such as African Americans further to the fringes of society. From the "Jim Crow Act" to the "grandfather clause", a series of discriminatory laws and policies separated people of different races in different communities, schools, public facilities and other areas. This system not only limited the social space of minorities, but also exacerbated the estrangement and hatred between whites and minorities. Under the shadow of apartheid, the survival of minorities was seriously threatened.

Today, discrimination against foreign races in the United States has not been effectively curbed, but exists in more hidden and complex forms. In the fields of employment, education, housing, etc., hidden discrimination is not uncommon. Minorities often face higher barriers and lower treatment when applying for a job; when applying for a loan or buying a house, they may also be treated unfairly because of their racial identity. In addition, in the field of education, minority students also face uneven educational quotas and poor teaching quality. This hidden discrimination is full of prejudice in the hearts of every American.

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Is immigration to the United States a "dream of heaven" or a "gate to hell"?

The United States has always been a "melting pot" of immigrants, regardless of color, race, high or low, they can achieve the "American Dream" here. Many poor people have been dreaming of immigrating to the United States all their lives, fantasizing about becoming an American citizen and getting the "first pot of gold" in life.

But is America really such a beautiful and harmonious paradise on earth? When we uncover the truth bit by bit, we find that reality is far more absurd than fiction.

Dark History: Discrimination, Hypocrisy, and Sin Behind American Immigrants

As the world's largest immigrant country, the United States, despite its so-called "freedom, tolerance, and diversity," has been full of "prevention, discrimination, xenophobia, and oppression" throughout its immigration history. The hypocrisy of American immigrants has long been known to the world.

Since the colonial era, the "black history" of the slave trade has planted a historical root cause of racial discrimination in the United States that is 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 took advantage of their political and social dominance to regard their own culture as the core of the identity and ideology of the North American continent. In the early 17th century, various British colonies in North America introduced laws that stipulated that black slaves were the legal "permanent property" of whites, and the children of black slaves automatically inherited the status of slaves, empowering whites to enslave blacks at the legislative level.

In the 1830s and 1860s, a large number of Irish Catholics emigrated to the United States. A strong anti-Irish movement followed in the United States, stigmatizing Irish immigrants and labeling them as lazy, inferior, violent, and dangerous. In the mid-19th century, a large number of Chinese laborers were trafficked to the United States as coolies by Americans, and by 1880 the total number had exceeded 100,000. Chinese laborers took on the most difficult task in the construction of the Central Pacific Railway in the United States. Thousands of people died, and they made great contributions to the development of the United States with their hard work, sweat, and even their lives. When the railway was completed, the United States launched the most notorious ** and exclusion of immigrants in history - the ** movement. In 1875, the US Congress passed the Page Act to restrict the entry of Chinese laborers and women into the United States. The ** Act of 1882 prohibited Chinese immigrants who were already in the United States from obtaining U.S. citizenship, and other acts prohibited Chinese from owning real estate in the United States; prohibited Chinese from intermarrying with whites; prohibited Chinese wives and children from immigrating to the United States; prohibited Chinese from serving in government, elections, etc. Not only that, Chinese immigrants in the United States are often subject to extreme violence in the United States. On October 24, 1871, 19 Chinese immigrants were killed by hundreds of white people in the area of Negroe Lane in Los Angeles. In 1877, Chinese homes in Negroe Lane were set on fire by all whites. In 1876 and 1877, there were two consecutive riots in the United States in which white racist armed elements attacked San Francisco's Chinatown. On September 2, 1885, white miners launched a ** in the Stone Springs mining area of Wyoming and destroyed the Chinese workers' residential village. At least 28 Chinese immigrants were killed.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, immigrants from Italy, Poland, Greece, Russia and other countries were the main body of immigrants to the United States, and white immigrants from Southeast Europe became a new group strongly excluded by the United States. In 1911, the US Congress issued the "Dillingham Commission Report", claiming that immigrants from Southeast Europe had limited contributions to the United States, but instead damaged the unique race, culture and system of the United States. Xenophobes launched the "Americanization Movement", which tried to deprive immigrants from Southeast Europe of their language and culture, forcing them to choose between complete "Americanization" and leaving the United States.

The influx of Latin American immigrants, especially Mexican immigrants, since the 20th century has once again aroused strong xenophobia in the United States. In 1924, the United States established the Border Patrol, and 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 stop Mexican immigrants from entering the country. During the Great Depression, tens of thousands of Mexicans were deported from the United States. In 2019, a white supremacist man who hated the continued "invasion" of Texas by Latin Americans drove 1,000 kilometers to the city of El Paso in the west of the state and shot and killed 23 people at a Walmart supermarket. This was the largest domestic terrorist attack against Latin Americans in modern American history.

Party battles: American immigrants fall victim to bipartisan political battles

In recent years, the rift between the two parties on immigration policy has become more and more serious. Party disputes have become the base color of immigration policy. Politicians are busy criticizing each other. Strict immigration policies can win the political support of right-wing fanatical voters in the short term. Therefore, politicians often use immigration issues as electoral tools to arouse voters' emotions. Using immigration issues to make a big deal while ignoring immigrant rights and well-being, immigration issues fall into an unsolvable vicious circle, immigrant rights are trampled on, and each fresh life is reduced to a gimmick to attract people's attention, a bargaining chip to raise elections, and a tool for political struggles.

Under Trump's "zero tolerance" policy, thousands of refugees and migrants were violently enforced at the southern border of the United States, resulting in the forcible detention of a large number of incoming refugees and migrants. In the "concentration camps" where migrants are detained, living conditions are extremely poor, food spoilage, disease and other phenomena abound, and forced labor, beatings, sexual assaults, and even forced female uterus harvesting continue, leaving refugees and migrants in purgatory. Facing widespread condemnation from the international community, Trump simply announced that the United States would withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council and carry out the "strike hard" policy to the end.

When Trump was in office, he made no secret of the Republican Party's hostility to immigrants. He threw out a border wall, a Muslim ban, and an "immigration deportation order" one after another. He publicly insulted Latin American countries as "shithole countries". He lectured congresswomen who opposed the wall to "go back home" and threatened to send refugee migrants to the "blue states" controlled by the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party seemed to be "Our Lady" on immigration and held high the banner of "inclusivity", but in fact it was at both ends of the line. Biden had ambitions to launch a "new immigration deal", but in the face of a surge in border immigration and domestic opposition, he was forced to restore Trump's "stay in Mexico" policy at the end of last year, causing a large number of immigrants to return to Latin.

The Truth Revealed: The Tragedy of Human Rights Abuse by American Immigrants

The United States has always acted as a "human rights teacher" and a country that advertises "freedom and dreams", but its behavior is completely different. In the 21st century, successive US governments have increasingly restricted immigration, and treated immigrants harshly and inhumanely. The arrest, detention, deportation, and deportation of immigrants are carried out on a large scale every year. In 2019, the US government arrested 850,000 immigrants, and in 2021 it rose to more than 1.7 million, setting a record since 1986. The number of immigrants detained has grown rapidly. In August 2022, the US Customs and Border Protection detained more than 200,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico. So far, more than 2.30 million refugee migrants have been arrested at the US-Mexico border in 2022. In 2013, more than 430,000 immigrants were deported from the United States, reaching an all-time high. In 2019, there are still 360,000, and more than 100,000 immigrants are deported every year. In mass arrests, detentions, deportations, and deportations, the human rights of immigrants are wantonly violated, and humanitarian disasters occur frequently. In September 2021, more than 15,000 refugees from Haiti gathered in the border town of Del Rio, Texas, waiting for a slim chance to enter the United States. US border law enforcement brutally treated these refugees. Patrols rode on horseback and brandished whips to rush into the crowd to deport them into the river. CNN commented that this scene is reminiscent of the dark era in American history when slave patrols were used to control black slaves.

In April 2021, it was revealed that the US government had set up "children's concentration camps" at the border, where thousands of unaccompanied children were stuffed into overcrowded transparent tents and left unattended. In June 2022, the deadliest human trafficking incident in the history of the United States took place in Texas, where 53 immigrants died of suffocation in their cars. This is the worst migrant death in the United States to date. Due to the long-term lack of law enforcement and lack of justice, human trafficking and forced labor in the United States have become increasingly rampant. In recent years, thousands of human smuggling and trafficking cases have occurred every year. Tragedies like "migrant trucks" are frequent. In 2021 alone, 557 illegal immigrants died in the southern border area of the United States.

The United States has set up the world's largest immigration detention system. Currently, there are more than 200 detention facilities in border states. CNN reported that during the epidemic, a total of 21 people died in US immigration detention in 2020, more than double the number of deaths in 2019 and the highest number of deaths since 2005. Up to 80% of the more than 1.7 million immigrants detained in the United States in 2021 were held in private detention facilities, including 45,000 children. In 2022, the number of difficult immigrants arrested by the US government reached a record high, reaching 2.15 million people. Of these, 782 people have died, more than 200 more than the total number of deaths last year, and the number of missing people is even more countless. Of the 266,000 immigrant children detained by the U.S. government in recent years, more than 25,000 were held for more than 100 days, nearly 1,000 spent more than a year in internment camps, and many were held for more than five years, the data showed.

This series of tragedies has lifted the fig leaf of the human rights crimes committed by the United States.

160 years ago, former US President Lincoln proclaimed in his famous Gettysburg Address that "all men are created equal," but to this day, Lincoln's "equality" has not been achieved. Today's America is running counter to Lincoln's expectations and is gradually moving away.

The immigration crisis in the United States and its accompanying farce, tragedy, and tragedy are causing this so-called "city on a hill" to lose its halo, the "human rights teacher" to remove the mask of hypocrisy, and the once "American dream" to finally become a chicken feather.

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Does skin color really matter to a person?

You know, there was a professor in the United States named Thomas Sowell who wrote a book that said, "The importance of skin color in our community is self-evident. All races have not escaped the clutches of discrimination." Although it is popular to say anti-discrimination now, in fact, this phenomenon has always existed in American history, and it is still a big problem today.

First of all, let's talk about the origin of this problem: that is, colonial aggression and the slave trade. As early as the colonial era, the slave trade began in the United States, which planted the deep seeds of racial discrimination. In 1619, the first black slaves arrived in the United States, and from then on began a dark road of racial oppression. White people used their power to regard their culture as a symbol of North America. By the early 17th century, various British colonies began to legislate that blacks would become the "permanent property" of whites, and their children would automatically inherit slave status.

Then we go back to the early days of the United States. White Americans were wary of immigration. To justify their enslavement of blacks, they had hierarchies based on skin color. In 1776, the Declaration of Independence ostensibly said that all people were equal, but it did not give blacks citizenship, and even recognized the legality of slavery. In 1787, the U.S. Constitution also stipulated that the taxes and House seats of Representatives of slave states should be calculated at three-fifths of the black population. To prevent the French Revolution from causing unrest in the United States, the U.S. government introduced a series of laws in 1798 that made it harder for immigrants to become U.S. citizens, and even allowed them to be detained and deported at will. Another U.S. president directly said that other immigrants were not needed except for skilled workers and certain professionals.

In the first half of the 19th century, many Catholic Irish people fled to the United States. As a result, the Americans began to regard these Irish immigrants as bad guys, thinking they were lazy, inferior, rude and dangerous. So all kinds of nativist and xenophobic organizations and political parties emerged. By the 1850s, an organization called the "American Party" was dedicated to opposing Irish immigrants. They even had 7 governors, 8 senators and 104 representatives. New York and Massachusetts also introduced laws to drive out or send back Irish immigrants. In 1844, Philadelphia was rife with anti-Irish immigration, killing at least 20 people. Those xenophobes also smashed and burned, bullied Irish immigrants, and burned their churches. Irish immigrants were always regarded as black until the 20th century, when they were accepted by whites and became victims of racial discrimination in the United States.

Then let's talk about Chinese laborers. In the mid-19th century, Americans shipped many Chinese laborers to the United States as slaves. By 1880, the total number had exceeded 100,000. These Chinese laborers paid a huge price in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in the United States. Many were killed and injured, but they still made a great contribution to the development of the United States with their hard work. However, when the railroad was repaired, the Americans began a massacre against the Chinese - the Chinese Exclusion Movement. In 1875, the US Congress passed the Page Act, restricting the entry of Chinese laborers and women into the United States. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was even more severe, directly preventing Chinese immigrants who were already in the United States from becoming American citizens, and also preventing Chinese from buying houses, marrying, having children, serving as officials, voting in the United States, etc. In 1910, the United States Immigration Service set up an immigration detention center on Angel Island in San Francisco, which did not close until 1940. Moreover, Chinese immigrants in the United States are often subject to violent attacks by Americans. For example, on October 24, 1871, 19 Chinese immigrants on Negroe Lane in Los Angeles were beaten to death by hundreds of whites. In 1877, the Chinese homes there were also set on fire by whites. In 1876 and 1877, there were also two incidents of white racist attacks on Chinatown in San Francisco. On September 2, 1885, white workers in the mining area of Rock Springs, Wyoming, rioted again and destroyed Chinese homes, killing at least 28 Chinese immigrants.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, immigrants from Italy, Poland, Greece, and Russia became the mainstream of the United States, while white immigrants from Southeast Europe became the new object of exclusion. In 1911, the US Congress issued a report saying that immigrants from Southeast Europe would not contribute much to the United States, but would destroy the race, culture, and system of the United States. So they suggested cultural testing for immigrants and a national quota system. Those racists also use the theory of evolution to prove that immigrants from Southeast Europe are "inferior" non-white people, saying that they will pollute the Anglo-Saxon white blood in the United States. Xenophobes launched the "Americanization Movement", wanting immigrants from Southeast Europe to give up their language and culture. There is only one way to choose, either fully integrate into the United States or get out. Henry Ford, the owner of the Ford Motor Company, sent his employees to what he called "melting pot schools." White supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan recruited millions of members to terrorize and attack southeastern European immigrants across the United States. The October Revolution in Russia in 1917 caused the first "Red Scare" in the United States. The United States government identified southeastern European immigrants as Communists, and used it to arrest and deport southeastern European immigrants in large numbers.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the increase of Latin American immigrants, especially Mexican immigrants, has led to increasing xenophobia in the United States. In 1924, the United States established the Border Patrol to stop Mexican immigrants. In 1929, illegal entry became a serious crime in an attempt to prevent more Mexicans from entering. During the Great Depression, thousands of Mexicans were driven back to their hometowns. After the implementation of the new immigration policy in 1965, Mexicans became the largest group of immigrants in the United States, and they were often arrested and deported as high as 90% of the total. By the late 1970s, nearly 800,000 Mexicans were arrested each year, and by the late 1990s, it reached 1.50 million. White nationalists in the United States even carried out violent attacks on Latin American immigrants. In 2019, a white nationalist man, resentful of the continued "invasion" of Texas by Latin Americans, drove a thousand kilometers to El Paso in the western part of the state and shot and killed 23 people at a Walmart supermarket. This was the largest domestic terrorist attack against Latin Americans in modern American history.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, immigration restrictions in the United States have become a battleground for bipartisan power struggles, with large-scale arrests, detentions, deportations, and deportations of immigrants every year. Because of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, "Islamophobia" has appeared in American politics, and Muslim immigrants have become the focus of the crackdown. On October 26, 2001, the United States passed the Patriot Act, allowing foreigners with terrorist ties to be monitored and expelled at will. As a result, more than 1,200 people, mostly Arabs and Muslims, were arrested by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. By 2017, the United States had introduced a "Muslim ban" that prevented people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from coming to the United States, even for 90 days. In recent years, far-right and conservative media in the United States have hyped up the "alternative theory" that whites are being crowded out by immigrants and minorities. This extreme ideology has led to many terrorist attacks against immigrants and minorities. In 2021, the US government arrested more than 1.7 million immigrants, the most since 1986. During these mass arrests, deportations, and deportations, the rights of immigrants were seriously violated and humanitarian crises were frequent. On October 25, 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council condemned the United States' systematic and mass deportation of refugees from Haiti without assessing their individual situation as a violation of international law.

The United States often calls itself the "melting pot" of immigrants and the "light of democracy," while promoting their "American dream." But did you know that racism and xenophobia have been etched in the bones of America since it became a colony? The way they treat immigrants is full of discrimination, exclusion, arrest and even deportation, which are inhumane acts, and it has never stopped.