Suppression of immigrants and xenophobia in Trump’s electoral oven
The tightening of immigration laws in the United States, including the expansion of the immigrant detention system and the strengthening of border patrols and forces, are among the most important promises of the Republican candidates in the presidential elections. |
Mehr News Agency, International Group: Donald Trump, who is the main candidate of the Republican Party in the US elections The 2024 presidential hopeful has doubled down on his bold anti-immigration campaign rhetoric and pledged to use foreign forces at the country’s borders to ensure the country’s borders are completely closed.
His controversial comments on this issue have been one of the main axes of Trump’s election campaign in the various states of this country. The New York Times has reported that Trump plans to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers to hold people awaiting trial. During the first term of his presidency, Trump also supported increasing spending for border protection. But in this round of election competition, he has intensified his attacks against immigrants in his advertisements.
He also warned that he supports the deportation of immigrants who entered the country during the Biden presidency, including through legal programs. In the following, some headings of the approaches and policies that Trump promised to follow up and implement in the event of his second entry into the White House are presented:
Beyond discrimination; Immigrants poison the blood of America
During one of his election campaigns in Reno, Nevada, Donald Trump proposed an anarchist, discriminatory and inhuman view inspired by Adolf Hitler; “Immigrants poison the blood of our country.”
In this speech, he called for a “cleansing” in the United States and, without mentioning details, he promised that “a large part” of the current enforcers of the immigration law at the border in the United States , will be changed using the call of American soldiers outside this country.
The walls are going up
Trump has said that his 2019 plan to force Mexican immigrants not to enter the country will be followed by the “Stay in Mexico” program, which is based on Those walls and barrier structures on the US-Mexico border will be strengthened and built more intensively.
During the first term of his presidency, Trump tried to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, which ended during the time of Biden, a Democrat. Biden defeated Trump in 2020 and pledged to have more humane and orderly immigration policies, but Trump has claimed that thousands of illegal immigrants entered the country during Biden’s tenure and that his incoming administration will seek to detain all immigrants who come illegally. They have crossed the border of this country or violate other immigration laws of this country. He is supposed to put an end to what he calls “catching and releasing immigrants”.
Travel ban
Trump has threatened to implement a travel ban on people from certain countries or with certain ideologies in time, overturning a policy that was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018. America confirmed, expands.
In his mid-October 2023 speech, Trump predicted some countries and parts of the world that may be subject to travel bans again and pledged that citizens from the Gaza Strip , Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and “everywhere else that threatens the security of the United States” will be banned from entering the United States.
In this speech, Trump emphasized the killing of Palestinians by Israel in the recent conflict in Gaza and said that immigrants who support Hamas will no longer be able to enter America will not be. He also said in June of last year that he also seeks to prevent Muslims, communists, Marxists and socialists from entering the United States.
mass dismissal
Trump has vowed to launch the largest deportation effort in US history. In one of his speeches in 2016, Trump said that more than 11 million illegal immigrants live in America.
The New York Times reported in November that he plans to deport the millions of people living in the country illegally each year by using massive roundups and setting up camps for Keeping them in the mass program, get out of America.
The Times reported that the former president promised to redirect part of the military budget to pay for deportations. His critics have said such a move would almost certainly be challenged in court, and Congress could potentially limit the use of the funds.
Using the little-known Alien Enemies Act of 1789, he said, aggressive new steps are being taken to deport immigrants en masse, including immigrants with criminal records and suspected gang members. Bermidard and the Deputy National Guard and local law enforcement should facilitate the speedy deportation of people he has designated as criminals in various states.
Repeal the automatic citizenship of immigrant children
In May of last year, Trump announced another new plan to crack down on immigrants, seeking to end automatic citizenship for children born in the United States. It will be to immigrants who live in this country illegally.
Trump’s opponents say: Such a move contradicts the longstanding interpretation of the US constitutional amendment and is likely to bring legal challenges.
During his first term in office, Trump reduced the number of asylum seekers allowed to enter the United States from abroad and criticized Biden’s decision to increase the number of such people. And he said that for this reason, if he is re-elected, he will suspend the resettlement program of immigrants again.
He has defined the mechanism of his program in this field as follows: a merit-based immigration system that protects the American workforce and promotes American values. will implement and will put pressure on all the authorities of this country in this field.
During his first term as president, he took steps to make it harder to access some visa programs for immigrants; including the suspension of many work visas during the covid 19 pandemic. >
Trump has also pledged to end Biden’s “parole” programs, which allow hundreds of thousands of U.S.-sponsored immigrants to enter and receive work permits, including Ukrainians. and Afghans, will end it.
Summary
Trump’s extreme and tension-causing views against immigration and immigrants in the United States have heated up the presidential election in this country, especially by Trump, as many poll results show. It shows that the American people are against the management of the current president of this country, Joe Biden, in the area of immigrants, and the strengthened electoral atmosphere against immigrants may even provide the opportunity for Trump to surpass Biden in this year’s presidential elections.
The three decrees included several parts, such as implementing border security, suspending the issuance of visas to immigrants from countries that are considered enemies of the United States, building a border wall, and increasing military forces. Border patrols, increasing the construction of detention centers and detaining immigrants, limiting access to asylum, increasing public safety within the states, suspending visas for some countries and severely reviewing and suspending the US refugee program and banning asylum for nationals of many countries were among them. .
During his term, Trump increased the forces in this department to 25,000 by adding 5,000 new border agents, which was more than three times the number of agents in 2000. .
Now, in another round of the US presidential election (2024), despite the great political and judicial challenges and obstacles, he has launched hot election campaigns that Xenophobia and fear-mongering in the hearts of the people of this country has put non-Americans in the focal point of his plans and actions for various titles. For this reason, his election campaigns both in 2016 and now with alien attacks His and his supporters’ fear of families and communities and the economy related to immigrants has been formed.
Another point is that the issue of immigrants was important to the supporters of both the Republican and Democratic parties in the polls, but its ranking was different.
Poll results A February 2024 NPR NewsHour/Marist poll by NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist shows that preserving democracy is at the top of voters’ list of issues this election year, but not for Republicans, who are more concerned about Immigration and immigrants are foreigners to this country.
According to this survey, for the Democrats, the preservation of democracy due to the rebellion and the attack of Trump’s supporters on the Congress during his presidency and then inflation, are the two main issues in the elections of the month It is November. For the independents, preserving democracy, immigration and inflation have been three basic issues. But for Republicans, after immigration, inflation ranked second.
Trump’s opponents say that by surfing the domestic space of this country, he is trying to make xenophobia a problem with violent and anti-immigration policies and more promises to suppress immigrants. First, convert this country. This is while Trump’s anti-human and destructive views against non-American societies and countries have left many casualties and damages in this country in the past.
They say that millions of immigrants who live and work in America have helped the society of this country for economic development and are fully involved in the rotation of the industrial wheel and the settlement of farms. . In this approach, it has been emphasized: Trump’s violent promises in this regard are a clear deviation from the policies that have placed America in the list of countries accepting immigrants, and many of Trump’s immigration promises in the event of his second entry into the White House, this country It will face formidable legal and operational challenges.
Angela Kelly, a former senior official of the US Immigration Service, called Trump’s promises “excessive” proposals that would “terrorize” immigrants. Kelly, the senior advisor of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, says: Trump’s extremely radical ideas in his first term, including the ban on Muslims entering the country, were canceled after he left the White House, but if he returns to the White House, he will introduce stricter laws. When it is implemented, America’s relations with many countries will face a huge challenge again.