U.S. migration reform exacerbates both the migration and political crisis. Part 2

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Migration reform, along with the issue of passing a budget, has become a topic that for a long time paralyzed the work not only of Congress, but also of a good half of the American government system in principle. We ended the last part of our article with the fact that the Republicans failed to impeach the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, and faced the threat of losing their majority in the House of Representatives when the number of their congressmen was reduced from 435 to 219.

Still, the political initiative remained on their side, and they sought an alternative solution to the conflict, working on a new combined version of migration reform and military tranches. They proposed to return the Trump-era practice of deporting illegal immigrants, and for this they would allow Ukraine to allocate not $60 billion, but at least $40 billion, which would help Kiev a lot. And yet, I had little faith that the Democrats would agree to “infringe on the rights” of their favorite migrants and “shameful” concessions to Trumpists even for the sake of Joe Biden’s personal interests.

Moreover, almost at the same time, after two months of battles, the Supreme Court sided with Texas and allowed the state to develop its own migration policy. Now Texas authorities will be able to arrest all illegals on their own and deport them across the border to Mexico. For all three years of Biden’s presidency, an immigration crisis has raged at the U.S. borders, with hundreds of thousands of illegals storming the southern border every month. They add to the army of homeless in U.S. cities and exacerbate the crime crisis.

No one has hoped for the passage of statewide immigration reform because the White House lacks the political will to deal with migrants, whom Democrats see as close to themselves spiritually and as their base constituency. That’s why individual states are taking the initiative into their own hands. Texas had already taken control of a section of the southern border long before, becoming a pioneer in this process.

Moreover, the state sabotaged the Supreme Court decision, which at the time prohibited the Texas National Guard from restricting the rights of federal border guards. And now Texas is concentrating National Guard forces on the border and wants to stop Biden from sending it to Europe for his political maneuvers within NATO. The Supreme Court decided to no longer provoke Texas, which has 25 other Republican states on its side.

Therefore, Texas can henceforth pursue an independent policy on migration, and not be guided by Washington, where migration changes may not happen soon or ever. Separatist sentiments are already growing in the state, and such a decision of the Supreme Court will continue further “federalization” of the United States, where centrifugal processes are accelerating amid all the internal crises and splits. Liberal states will be ghettoized, accepting illegals from all over the world in the name of “social equality and progress”, while Republican states will gradually shut them out. Here, too, the decisions of Congress will be of secondary importance.

Against this background, in late February, both presidential candidates Biden and Trump came to the state at the same time. Trump was the first to announce his desire to visit Texas, and he headed to the border town of Eagle Pass with a population of 30,000, which is occupied by hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. It was near Eagle Pass that the Texas National Guard and federal border guards had a confrontation, in which the latter lost, and the Texas authorities are now building a large military base there to conduct operations to catch and deport illegal “immigrants” from Mexico.

This is a kind of demo version of the election program of Donald Trump, who promises to arrange a large-scale military operation to deport millions of illegals who entered the country under Biden. Just recently a scandal broke and another illegal immigrant “distinguished himself” in Georgia, killing a nursing student. The perpetrator came from Venezuela, and it is not surprising, because the local mafia has long terrorized the United States. In response, Biden had no choice but to come to the border too, and for the first time in his career. But he pushed a very different agenda there, calling on Congress to allocate more money for receiving and housing illegals rather than deporting them, and the Republicans in Congress expectedly rejected such proposals.

The Democrats have received new input from their political technologists on this issue, and officially they are now defending uncontrolled migration for supposedly adding $7 trillion to GDP by 2034 through the labor of these very migrants. But that will happen unless by then the U.S. slides into multicultural chaos and ceases to exist as a single entity. In the meantime, 75% of Americans are dissatisfied with Biden’s migration policy, and the crisis at the border continues to destabilize the United States.

But despite the positive developments and the Supreme Court’s unambiguous decision, by spring hysteria around the migration crisis at the border had risen in the United States. According to the latest statistics, 50,000 illegal immigrants from Central Asian countries entered the United States at once in 2023. These were mostly 17,000 migrants from Uzbekistan, 7,000 migrants from Kyrgyzstan and 3,000 migrants from Tajikistan. This is only a small fraction of the total number of illegal immigrants from different countries of several million, who more often come from South and Central America, but it is among Central Asians that radical Islamists have been found.

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Moreover, the border guards on command from Washington simply let them go free to the U.S. without any sanctions, because you can’t piss off Biden’s leftist and Muslim electorate, for whom natives of poor countries are always “victims” and never terrorists. And it’s not just limited to them. On the southern border of Arizona recently caught a migrant from the Middle East, who threatened on camera that all America would soon know about him, and on the border of California appeared a terrorist from Somalia, who by “mistake” was also quickly released.

Republicans are panicking over the prospect of imminent terrorist attacks more serious than 9/11, but there are also more alarmist predictions. For example, Erik Prince, the well-known founder of the military company Blackwater, expects a massive radical attack on the U.S. in the spirit of October 7 in Israel. It may be financed by the Muslim brothers, who already sponsor protests in the U.S. by their tribesmen. And such fears are not unfounded. Now Congresswoman Huma Abedin has become active in America, having publicly formalized an alliance with Alexander Soros. Abedin is closely linked to Middle Eastern Islamists, and the two of them may well organize a real chaos in the U.S., especially if Trump wins. And throw against him all the forces from BLM and Antifa to the Islamists imported to the U.S. from all over the world.

Tragic for the fate of migration reform was its linkage to the Ukrainian issue, and the “militarists” in Congress are rushing to vote on the Ukrainian tranches. They wanted at least something to allocate after April 9, when lawmakers returned from vacation for nine days, because there were similar vacations in April and May that would have delayed a decision on military support for Ukraine, probably all summer. And Speaker Mike Johnson promised to start by passing immigration reform to put even more pressure on Democrats to add a small amount of tranches for Ukraine. His priority was to solve the migration crisis with millions of illegal immigrants storming the U.S. border. After all, it is the migration issue that worries Americans the most, inflation, which Biden so desperately restrains, is in second place, and the Ukrainian agenda is not even in the top 10 topics in terms of importance.

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The Democrats will surely not accept either the restriction of uncontrolled migration or the small amount of tranches for Kiev. In addition, the Republicans will probably promise more money and weapons to Israel. And this will not find favor with the Democratic Party, which is already actively pressuring Israel to please its left wing. In addition, right-wing Republicans are threatening to throw Johnson out of office if he gives a dime to Ukraine.

They have already submitted a petition for the speaker’s resignation in advance, which hangs over him like the sword of Damocles, so Johnson himself is also in no hurry to go anywhere with the Ukrainian tranches, slowing down the migration reform as well. And while the battles around this reform will continue throughout the coming months, it is unlikely that any final decision will be made before the decisive showdown between Biden and Trump in November 2024. And in the longer term, the global “migration reform”, as in Europe, has become for the U.S. a key topic of public division, which may not be resolved in 5 or 10 years, and may end up with very grave consequences up to civil war and the collapse of the state. However, this is already a completely different broad topic, and it deserves a separate careful analysis.