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For: Maribel Hastings and David Torres
Wednesday, November 20
Lights and shadows on the migration mission of Kamala Harris
Although Vice President Kamala Harris’ official visit to Mexico and Central America to discuss the roots of migration to the North fulfills a mission with more long-term rather than short-term goals, the need to legalize the millions of undocumented people who have been living in the United States for decades, working and paying taxes, is immediate.
That is a truth that, for Its palpable evidence should be attended to in all areas, not only to resolve once and for all the situation of migratory and economic instability of these millions of human beings, but to see if on this occasion the promises made in the campaign are comply. And there have been so many, that the account has already been lost from generation to generation of immigrants, at least in the last 30 years.
Because pretending that Harris waves a magic wand and ends the causes that lead and will lead millions to continue looking to the United States as their The only salvation is only to continue postponing the solution to legalize those who are already here.
For what purpose can we extend the solutions to a subject so analyzed , groped, understood and accepted, as is the migratory? Why give room and why pay attention to the republican part that beforehand has become an anti-immigrant and xenophobic wing? But above all, why not use the political legitimacy that the ballot box has conferred on this government to focus all its power on regularizing those 11 millions of undocumented? Is it too much to ask?
Although it is laudable to try to allocate funds to measures that combat the flow of migrants in the countries of origin, the reality is that decades of corruption, misery, gang violence, lack of access to education, unemployment and political instability cannot be ended overnight. Even this kind of aid is not new, nor has it resulted in better conditions for the region; In any case, it has served to further promote corruption among the elites that make these funds a particular preserve of power and illicit enrichment, especially since there has been no control.
On the other hand, the disasters of decades of US interventionism in the governments and the civil wars of many of these nations do not get rid of in one fell swoop. First they create disaster, wash their hands, and when the people of those countries come to their borders seeking help, they lament the crisis they helped create in the first place.
It is, in other words, the “boomerang effect” that history always inflicts on large societies that become true preserves of political and economic power, which in the end do not know what to do with what their own international decisions produce, with interventionism involved.
We understand that the Biden administration has been forced to place Harris in front of a complicated mission, which only addresses one aspect of the migratory phenomenon. Because the other element, the millions of undocumented people who are still waiting to be legalized, are already here among us and are not going anywhere. And if we divide these undocumented persons into groups, it is already immoral that they have not been legalized, as is the case of agricultural workers, on whose daily work our food chain depends.
If you have to start with any group, it is high time that they remember our peasants, not only because without them we do not eat, but because it is an insult to humanity that the most powerful nation the planet continues to super-exploit those thousands of families who perform one of the most complicated and specialized jobs, but above all poorly paid.
Likewise, the The arrival of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children to our borders prompted the Biden administration to announce Harris’s appointment to address the roots of the phenomenon, after Republicans denounced a “crisis” at the border that actually occurs every year, with its ups and downs, but it is always a cyclical phenomenon.
udder “the black thread” just because they have barely realized this phenomenon that has been at its peak for decades, much less should it be used to cover the sun with a finger for purely ideological-political reasons that will never bring this discussion to fruition .
We do not know where the Democratic infighting will stop to try to pass measures by a simple majority in the Senate, instead of the 60 votes required to overcome a blockade or filibuster. In that sense, Biden has two stumbling blocks from his own party – West Virginia Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Arizona Kyrsten Sinema – who have a greater affinity with Republicans and are opposed to eliminating the filibuster, even if this implies that a measure that seeks to protect the right to vote from attacks by Republican legislatures across the country is not passed. With friends like this, no enemies are needed.
But when you have enemies already identified among your ranks, it is best to call accounts, purge the party and no longer take into account those who seek to hijack the decisions of the union majority.
On Sunday, the flight carrying Harris and his entourage to Central America and Mexico he had to return to Andrews Air Base due to a “technical” problem. Let’s hope that the false takeoff is not a bad omen of what could be to come in the immigration field.