It is necessary to raise the root causes of migration, rather than trying to contain it: Luévano.
The path of migrants in Mexico is a complicated challenge marked by stigmatization, lack of proper identification and an immigration policy that sometimes ignores fundamental rights, said Dr. Guillermo Luévano Bustamante, coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Human Rights of the Postgraduate Law of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (UASLP).
Unfortunately, in Mexico, the migrant population is often labeled as “illegal,” a designation that Dr. Luévano Bustamante considers it wrong. In fact, they are in an irregular administrative situation, which pushes them to increasingly clandestine and dangerous routes in their search for a better life.
The problem has recently been aggravated by the announcement of the most important railway company, Grupo México, to suspend some of its commercial routes due to the increasing number of migrants using the train known colloquially as The Beast.
This measure not only further complicates the situation, but also exposes migrants to abuses by both organized crime and state actors who do not always respect human rights standards.
The Dr. Luévano Bustamante stressed that the migrant population should not be considered illegal. Their irregular administrative situation may entail a sanction which, according to the law, is limited to detention of up to 36 hours in migrant holding stations. However, persistent stigmatization deprives them of their human rights.
To address this problem more effectively, initial guidance on immigration regulation options is required, allowing migrants access to other rights and prevent automatic detention and deportation. Standards of international agencies advocate safe and orderly migration, which involves identifying the characteristics of each migrant and offering options such as humanitarian visas or refugee status according to their situation.
The Dr. Luévano Bustamante acknowledged that politics often prevails over the law on the immigration issue, especially in an effort to discourage the flow of immigration to the United States. However, he stressed that migration was an inherent process of humanity that could not be stopped altogether. To address it effectively, it is necessary to raise root causes rather than simply trying to contain it.
Although Mexico has a migration law that adheres to international standards, immigration policy often undermines law enforcement. This is evidenced by the participation of state and municipal police, and even the National Guard, in the detention of migrants, which threatens respect for human rights, he concluded.
Immigration crisis at the border and its devastating effects on Biden
Migration is at the center of that polarization and cultural warfare between Republicans-conservative-anti-immigrant Democrats and liberal-pro-immigrants.
o the bad end of President Joseph Biden, practically since he took office, the Mexico-U.S. border has been in crisis.
Simply by giving a more humane tone than Donald Trump to his speeches and his attitude to migrants, it caused flows to begin to increase on our common border. People’s smugglers created the narrative: The border loosed, let’s go north.
It’s important to say that Trump’s toughness didn’t stop them. In 2019, there were nearly 900 thousand arrests by the Border Patrol. The covine lowered flows, but in 2022, Biden’s second year of government, all records were broken: 2.2 million arrests on our common border.
This year, it is feared, the flow of migrants may be even greater. If so, it will be devastating for the Democratic octogenarian’s re-election attempts.
The Republican narrative against Biden is impeccable: he is unable to take care of our borders, so we need the lord of the Beauty and beautiful wall to prevent our country from being filled with criminals and fentanyl. Urge to get Donald Trump back.
The United States is experiencing unprecedented political polarization. Democracy itself is in danger. And migration is at the center of that polarization and culture wars between Republicans-conservative-anti-immigrants and liberal-pro-immigrant Democrats.
Much of the last century, and even during the eight years of George W’s presidency. Bush (2000-2008), the Republican Party was basically pro-migrant. He aligned himself with the entrepreneurs, who required unskilled labor such as that of the Mexican immigrant. The W himself. Bush has self-appointed – compassionate conservative – in terms of migration.
In 2008, however, the Republican platform opted for its anti-immigrant position and lost two consecutive presidential elections at the hands of Barack Obama, a pro-migrant candidate.
At the end of 2012 and when he started 2013, the Republican Party decided to conduct a self-reflection. How to avoid being out of the White House again on a third time?
Under the leadership of Reince Priebus, who was ultimately Donald Trump’s first White House office chief, Republicans reached a consensus: We can’t stand by the demographic future. The populations that grow the most are Latino and Asian minorities, so we have to return to the cause of promigration.
Now, some Republican ideologues didn’t buy the idea.
In what would be a historic meeting when the 2013 director of Breitbart News, a far-right website, Steve Bannon, who came to command Trump’s campaign for the presidency in 2016 and whoever was his first director of political strategy in the White House, invited two Republicans to his Capitol Hill home, who stood out for his anti-immigrant zeal: Jeff Sessions, senator for Alabama and in the end Trump’s first prosecutor, and Steven Miller, directorSessions and Trump’s chief discursologist is ultimately in office.
At that dinner, Bannon convinced Sessions and Miller that the Republican Party should do just the opposite. Tougher and more hind-out against migration. In this way, the Republican base resentful of globalization and factory automation would be benefited. What Bannon sold them was nothing but the current Republican ideology: populist and racist nationalism.
Two years later, when Trump emerged as an anti-immigrant candidate, Bannon, Sessions and Miller ran to embrace him. They were key to becoming President and they certainly made sure he was the most anti-immigration president in the recent history of the neighboring country.
Moreover, Bannon and his guests used Trump to cement an anti-immigrant agenda in the Republican Party with racist dyes.
Today all Republican pre-candidates follow Trump’s anti-migratory precepts.
As we saw in the second debate of the Republican aspirants that took place last Wednesday in California, the issue that warmed the pre-candidates the most was immigration and, in particular, Biden’s weakness in protecting the border with Mexico.
In the presidential campaign approaching 2024, Biden and his erratic immigration policy will be, over and over again, Republican derision. Mexico, our common border and migrants will once again be the political piñata of that party. (Automated translation).
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Causes, consequences, effects and impact of the migrations in Latin America.
This work approaches Latin American migrations produced in the framework of globalization. The author identifies those which take place in Latin America toward developed countries as part of the worldwide tendency with restrictive character in the destination countries, determined by governments which try to avoid undesired migratory flows into their territories. This restrictive situation tends to select migrants according to the immediate necessities of a country to cover job positions, hence attracting to their societies scientists, technologists and specialists, who they lack, to meet their own demands; a migratory phenomenon called brain drain. However, the author also warns on a new re-colonization project which will bring new migratory flows to Latin America because of its water and food supplies.
Key words: migratory flows, brain drain, globalization, qualified migration, Latin America.
Breaking up of original ideas
Various causes have been attributed to the decision to emigrate. Different theories have been put forward to explain them. In addition, there are the analyses that are carried out from different disciplines, such as Demography, Economics, History, Psychology, Law, Sociology, Geography, Ecology, Political Science, etc.
The explanations that give an account of the reasons for this phenomenon are linked to lack of work, political-ideological persecution, insecurity resulting from violence, wars, ethnic religious persecution, socio-economic problems, improvement of the quality of life, the search for individual or family development, employment and education opportunities, access to goods and services, among others.
The inquiry and analysis of this phenomenon make it possible to state that the migration decision is ultimately a consequence of a complex process. In it, the socio-cultural imaginary, historically constituted, is broken in its project for the future in the presence of a reality and a hegemonic discourse, which breaks the expectations of personal and security realization; not only economic, but also political and social.
To avoid the personal collapse, it is chosen to try to escape this distressing situation, a cul-de-sac. Emigration will be the possibility of apparently staying whole, with the idea that the new country will allow you to meet those things that you lack in your country of origin. But the conflict will not disappear, he will leave with him, without knowing it, for the rest of his life.
In this way, his fears will be denied, he will not be fully aware of his situation, which will prevent him from reversing the process and be doomed to a false conformist integration, which makes it impossible for him to find alternatives to improve his life, so that migration is unnecessary.
The migration decision, then, would be based on a complex combination of internal and external factors; among the most significant external ones we highlight:
1. Lack of alternatives for occupational achievement.
2. Social uncertainty about the economic future.
3. General insecurity in the face of the growth of violence.
4. Unmet basic needs.
Among the internal factors are:
1. Frustration in life expectancy.
2. Frustration in personal realization.
3. Generational mandate linked to the community of the family migration chain.
4. Access to information about options abroad.
5. Conviction of the impossibility of ethical-value realization in the society of origin.
https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1405-74252008000100005
Leaving the home and starting the journey: who are the ones who migrate to the U.S. and why they do it.
(30 June, 2022 )
They fear for their lives. They don’t have to eat. They lost everything after a hurricane passed. They want to meet their relatives again. Millions of Latin Americans – especially Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala – leave the countries that saw them born and take a trip to the United States, often plagued by dangers, in search of a better future. Here, a look at his motivations.
U.S. and Mexico, at both ends
The United States is the country in the world that is home to the most international migrants: there are 51 million, according to the report of the International Organization for Migration of 2022 with 2020 data. To put it into perspective, worldwide the total number of migrants – representing 3.6% of the population – was 281 million that year.
By 2020, 25 million migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean lived in North America, a significant increase from the estimated 10 million in 1990.
Mexico is on the other side of the extreme: it is the second country with the most emigrants (11 million), surpassed only by India (almost 18 million).
Mexico’s migration corridor to the United States is the largest in the world.
https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2022/06/30/quienes-son-los-que-migran-a-ee-uu-y-por-que-lo-hacen/ (Automated Translation).
https://laopinion.com/2023/05/27/inmigrantes-apuntan-contra-desantis-sin-nosotros-no-hay-florida/ (27 Mayo 2023)
https://monclova.com/internacional/mas-de-100-migrantes-en-frontera-de-estados-unidos-por-calor/
https://www.migrationdataportal.org/dashboard/compare-geographic?i&t=
https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1870-35502012000100009 Migración entre México y Estados Unidos: historia, problemáticas, teorías y comparación de interpretaciones.
http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1817-40782021000200448 La emigración procedente de Centroamérica hacia Estados Unidos. La “inmigración indeseada” centroamericana, que ahora Estados Unidos no sabe cómo administrar, es el resultado de los desbordes de la globalización neoliberal, por lo que no tiene solución mientras rija en el mundo ese modelo económico, político y social.
***The Central American “unwanted immigration”, which the United States now does not know how to manage, is the result of the overflows of neoliberal globalization, so it has no solution as long as that economic, political and social model governs the world.
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-50921735
Migration to the United States: the desperation of migrants “trapped in Mexico” who send their children alone to the U.S.
“Mandar a mi hijo solo a EE.UU. fue la decisión más difícil de mi vida. Fue una opción desesperada porque como madre ya no estaba dispuesta a que siguiera durmiendo en el suelo. Aquí pasaba hambre y frío“./”Send my son alone to America was the most difficult decision of my life. It was a desperate choice because as a mother I was no longer willing to keep sleeping on the floor. There was hungry and cold here,”
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-57311091
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What drives the record levels of migration to the U.S. border. – U.S.?
The U.S. government is trying to restrict border crossings that could increase by defeating a pandemic-implemented policy, but has little control over the crises that have disrupted the lives of millions in Latin America.
A group of migrants crossing the Darien Tapon in September. The United Nations estimates that up to 400,000 people will pass through that region this year.Credit…Federico Rios for The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/es/2023/05/11/espanol/migracion-america-latina.html
https://expansion.mx/mundo/2023/09/29/elon-musk-mexico-eagle-pass
https://suono.home.blog/2023/05/19/migrantes/
https://suono.home.blog/2023/08/23/boyas-en-el-rio-grande-una-trampa-mortal-para-migrantes/
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“It’s a difficult situation for our entire country,” said Jason Lee, a senior adviser to Chicago’s mayor. “You have thousands and thousands of people trying to find asylum in the United States. And there’s international and American law that have established the right to asylum, but the system never anticipated this many people pursuing it. So we’re all having to figure out a new model for how we deal with asylum in this country.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/27/dems-migrant-crisis-biden-00118001
https://suono.home.blog/2022/09/20/inmigrantes/
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