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On the morning of April 16, 2022, a bus full of immigrants arrived in Washington, DC.
This car was carrying 30 "illegal immigrants" who had smuggled themselves into the United States from Latin America. Mica Rodriguez from Venezuela is one of these 30 people.
An illegal immigrant who was sent to Washington from Texas
He is 26 years old and has no special skills. The reason why I came to the United States is because the situation in Venezuela has deteriorated and the economic situation is terrible.
"You get a job, but it doesn't support your family." In an interview with an American reporter, Mika explained the reason why he smuggled himself into the United States. The place where
Mika "landed" illegally was Texas, which was once part of Mexico. In 1845, the United States snatched this territory from Mexico.
The geographical location is cheap, which provides conditions for smuggling. Most illegal immigrants from Latin America to the United States disembark in Texas.
San Antonio, Texas Location
During the Trump era, the United States rejected these immigrants, so it built a long border wall to prevent them from entering the United States.
After Biden of the Democratic Party came to power, he believed that the border wall was "incompatible with American values" and ordered its dismantling. But what is strange is that Biden has dismantled the border wall, but has not given formal status to the immigrants who are pouring into the United States.
So people like Micah Rodriguez can only stay in Texas as illegal immigrants. The large number of illegal immigrants without jobs has caused the social security situation in Texas to deteriorate rapidly.
According to data surveyed by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, after Biden repealed Trump’s immigration policies, the immigration crime rate in Texas surged nearly 10 times!
This angered Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He couldn't change Biden's immigration policy, so he simply sent these illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., under the eyes of the White House .
Mica Rodriquez from Venezuela was involved in high-level political struggles in the United States. Inexplicably, he was transported by special car from Texas to Washington.
It’s just that Washington cannot accept these immigrants. After they took a short rest locally and visited the magnificent exterior wall of the White House, they were quietly sent to New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia and other places.
As for the "big shots" in these places, Mika doesn't know whether they will be transferred to other places or whether they will be allowed to live on the streets.
Micah Rodkris
The experience of being sent around like garbage has long extinguished all illusions about the United States in Micah's heart. The reason why he is still persisting is that he hopes to find a job, even if he earns one-fifth of the salary of Americans, he can still send money back home to support his family. He has a newborn daughter who is waiting for his father to send money from the United States to live on. .
After all, compared to the 46 illegal immigrants who were suffocated to death in a tractor-trailer truck, Micah Rodriquez’s experience was already considered lucky.
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For illegal immigrants from Latin America, Texas is a place of hope and despair. It is a paradise for a few people and a hell for most people.
On June 27, local time, U.S. law enforcement officials discovered 46 bodies in a tractor-trailer truck near San Antonio, Texas.
According to preliminary inference, these 46 people are likely to be illegal immigrants. After being smuggled into the United States, because the truck was sealed and the local temperature was as high as 39°C, these people died of heat in the truck.
This is not the first time a similar case has occurred in Antonio, Texas.
In 2017, also in San Antonio, near a supermarket, nearly 40 people were trapped in a tractor-trailer truck transporting illegal immigrants. When they were discovered, 10 people were dead and dozens of others were seriously injured.
The truck where the immigration tragedy occurred
In 2003, more than 100 illegal immigrants were trapped in a truck in Texas, resulting in the death of 19 people, including a 91-year-old man and a 7-year-old child.
In 2017, a driver named Bradley revealed a terrifying aspect of the illegal immigration case in Texas.
Bradley was the driver in the 2017 immigration tragedy in San Antonio. The truck he drove transported more than 100 illegal immigrants into Texas, the United States. When they were discovered, eight of them died on the spot, and two died after being sent to the hospital, including a ten-year-old girl.
According to what Bradley said when he appeared in court for trial, he knew that the refrigeration system of the trailer was broken, and he also knew that the four vents in the rear compartment might be blocked.
In Texas in July, with the average temperature reaching over 30 degrees Celsius, more than 100 people were crowded into a carriage of less than 100 square meters. There was no refrigeration system, and they took turns breathing through a small hole. There was no water or food.
More importantly, for the safety of "human traffickers", drivers often do not know that what they are transporting in their cars is not goods, but dozens or hundreds of illegal immigrants.
The driver didn't know there were people in the car behind him. For these stowaways, the threat factor increased several levels. Because you don’t know what will happen to the driver on the way and how long he will stay. Disasters often occur under such circumstances.
Immigration waiting to enter the country
For those "snakeheads" engaged in human trafficking business, no matter how many people die, it is only a cost loss. Yes, in their eyes, these lives are just the "normal" loss cost of their business.
According to statistics from the US Customs Department, more than 170,000 illegal immigrants poured into Texas in April this year alone. Some of them were deported and some stayed.
Most of the people left behind live in various cities in the United States as illegal households. They do not enjoy any social security and can only earn one-third or even one-fifth of the salary of normal workers. They will also be considered by the " red neck " people in the United States as inferior people who are stealing their jobs, and they will be racially discriminated against.
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There is no doubt that the frequent immigration tragedies that occur in Texas are invisible murders. The culprit who planned this murder was a murderer named "Capital".
Under the unique two-party politics, when the Democratic and Republican parties were in power in the United States, immigration policies were completely different. For example, during the Trump era, immigration was very strict and only accepted immigration requests from highly talented people.
It is basically impossible for low-quality labor from Latin America to obtain legal U.S. status. This has prompted a large number of Latin American immigrants who want to enter the United States to become illegal immigrants through underground channels and human traffickers.
Some people may wonder, if this is the case, and now that the Democratic Party is in power under Biden, and the requirements for immigration cards are not so strict, why does a tragedy like 42 people being suffocated to death in a truck happen?
is actually very simple, because it does not matter whether it is the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. The real controllers behind them are capital. Capital is profit-seeking, and it is the nature of capital to pursue lower labor prices.
During Trump’s term, the government built a border wall and deported illegal immigrants. The government did a great job, but with little effect. The most fundamental reason is that the government only controls immigrants, but cannot control the factories and capital that recruit illegal immigrants.
Demand determines production. If illegal immigrants are regarded as a special commodity and you want to prevent the production of this commodity, then the best way is to solve the market demand for this commodity.
For example, if you want to ban drugs, the most fundamental way is to prevent the people in your country from being exposed to drugs. The approach of the American Republican Party is to crack down on drug dealers desperately, but let the domestic drug addicts have their way.
Illegal immigrants smuggled into the United States from Latin America are not protected by American law, so they are the favorite workers of various bosses. This kind of workers are not only cheap, but they are also willing to work overtime and do not protest. They are exactly what capitalists like most about "beating workers."
Marx said that as long as there is 100% interest, capital dares to trample on all laws. The labor cost of an illegal immigrant is often only one-fifth of that of a formal American employee. When converted to the capitalist side, the profit of an illegal immigrant is 500% of that of a formal American employee.
has such high interests, let alone trampling on the law. They dare to trample on God.
Because of this, although immigration policies were tightened during the Trump era, the Texas immigration tragedy in 2017 still occurred.
When Biden took office, he relaxed restrictions on immigration, but this relaxation only meant that he would not build a wall at the border to block them, but not issue them with legal status.
In other words, the Biden administration has only acquiesced to the existence of illegal immigration, but illegal immigration is still illegal, and this has not changed.
Under this special immigration policy, illegal immigrants have become "invisible" citizens of the entire country. They have contributed to the construction of the United States, but in a legal sense, these people do not exist. They are invisible people who do not need welfare benefits paid by the U.S. government.
So in the final analysis, the reason why immigration tragedies occur frequently in Texas is because of the U.S. government’s scumbag attitude of “no rejection, no acceptance, no responsibility” towards illegal immigrants.
