Why do Americans not like immigrants but never reject them?

Everyone knows that the United States likes to boast that it is an open and inclusive country, that it welcomes talent and immigrants from all over the world, but if you really study the history of immigration in the United States, you will find that Americans are very conservative and very racist.

When the United States was founded, because the labor force was not enough, the land was not much cultivated, so they tried to attract foreigners to help work, but they were still very afraid of these foreigners, and they divided them according to race. In 1782, for example, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, wrote in his book that foreigners should be allowed to live by our habits, rules, laws, and even blood. In 1790, the U.S. government also made a special nationality Act, which stipulated that only white people who had lived in the United States for two years and performed well could get American citizenship. Then in 1789, after the French Revolution, some French refugees came to the United States, and they brought a lot of radical ideas, which made Americans feel very uneasy, so Americans began to hate refugees, and they became uncertain about immigration policy, and they made a bunch of laws restricting foreigners, but then when Jefferson became president, Some of these laws have been repealed.

From the 1880s to the middle of the 20th century, as the slave trade boomed, US immigration policy shifted with the economic cycle and social psychology, and began to discriminate against immigrants. In 1882, the United States passed the first notorious Chinese Exclusion Act, which classified Chinese immigrants as criminals, prostitutes, and mentally ill people, and prohibited Chinese immigrants from entering the country and overseas Chinese from naturalization within 10 years. In 1892, the Chinese Exclusion Act was amended, requiring Chinese workers in the United States to register with the U.S. government. Chinese laborers undertook the most arduous task in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in the United States, and thousands died. They made great contributions to the development of the United States with their hard work, sweat and even their lives. However, affected by the serious racist atmosphere in the United States, Chinese workers did not get due respect and kindness, but a large number of Chinese died in the racial killing of white Americans.

Later, starting in 1910, Americans increasingly looked down on the new immigrants from Europe, especially the Irish, who they thought were lazy, cheap, violent, dangerous, etc. Then in 1844, there was a riot against Irish immigrants in Philadelphia, in which at least 20 people died. Irish people were once treated as black people, but they were not accepted by Americans until the 20th century and became the victims of racial discrimination in the United States.

From 1921 to 1924, Americans allocated quotas to immigrants from different countries according to race. They also passed laws such as the Emergency Quota Act and the Immigration Quota Act, which restricted new immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe and even prevented Asian immigrants from immigrating. This policy continued until the 1950s.

In 1924, the United States also established the Border Patrol, and most of the immigrants arrested each year were Mexicans. In 1929, the United States made illegal entry a felony, trying to keep more Mexicans out. The United States also kicked out tens of thousands of Mexicans during the Great Depression. After the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, Mexicans became the largest immigrant group in the United States, with 800,000 Mexicans arrested each year, and by the end of the 1990s, the number had risen to 1.5 million.

After the end of World War II, the world pattern and the political and economic situation of the United States changed. The technological progress of the United States began to attract the world's technical talents and a lot of cheap labor, but this has put a lot of pressure on social welfare. The government threw social problems on the black people. Although slavery had been banned by law, the black people were still treated unfairly and their human rights, development opportunities and political status were not protected at all. Moreover, American history is a history of racism, and it is still a history of racism, with most of the bottom workers being people of color or minorities who do not speak good English, have difficulty defending their rights, and are chronically oppressed.

In the MexicAn-American War of 1848, Mexico suffered a great loss, losing half of its land and mineral resources, and its economy suffered suddenly. Later, as the economy of the United States developed, the gap between the rich and the poor in Mexico became wider and wider. The United States began to use cheap Mexican labor to replenish itself, and neglected border management, resulting in a continuous influx of illegal immigrants. Between 1951 and 1955, the United States deported more than 1.8 million illegal Mexican immigrants. In the 1960s, with the rise of the third technological revolution, the United States began to absorb illegal immigrants, and immigrants from Latin America and Asia followed suit. By 1978, there were 6 million illegal immigrants in the United States, 50 percent Mexican and 30 percent Latin American, especially from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

Since 1940, the United States has revived the neo-colonial "Monroe Doctrine", plundered Latin American countries, interfered in their internal affairs, and used military force to support pro-American regimes and provoke civil wars. In 1948, the United States supported a coup by the military dictatorship in Venezuela, and in 1954, the United States financed a rebel regime in Guatemala to overthrow the government. In 1961, the United States sent armed forces to overthrow the Cuban regime, repeatedly assassinated Cuban leaders and suppressed them politically, and blocked Cuba's economy and trade through sanctions. In 1980, the United States supported the anti-communist regime in Nicaragua and the military dictatorship in El Salvador to suppress and slaughter the revolutionary armed forces in their country. In recent years, the US has also imposed sanctions on officials of El Salvador and Honduras for their pro-China diplomacy. The United States has been exploiting and plundering Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and other countries for years, controlling their resources, agriculture, infrastructure, trade and other national economic lifeline, resulting in a single economic structure, making them a supplier of raw materials and a dumping market for goods. In 1982, when the debt crisis broke out in Latin America, the United States took the opportunity to foster a puppet regime and cultivate the comprador bourgeoisie. The gap between the rich and the poor in Latin American countries widened, political instability, frequent crimes and widespread drugs became a tool for debt transfusion and labor export to the United States, bringing serious disasters to the people at the bottom and a large number of people fled to seek refuge. In fact, the emergence of illegal immigrants and refugees in many countries in Central and South America is precisely caused by the US economic sanctions and instigation of civil unrest.

The US government is quite stable in its treatment of tech immigrants and white immigrants, but it has changed its face much more on other types, number restrictions, low-skilled immigrants, illegal immigrants, and border control, and policy adjustments are like the weather. The power of the United States is controlled by the rich, the rich, and the Jews, so the immigration policy is decided by the actual situation, such as the need for talent blood transfusion, the need for the population to help pay taxes, the policy is loosened, and more people are allowed to come in; If the fear is that the community will become discordant and demand will decrease, tighten the policy and kick the illegal immigrants out. The US government and lawmakers are so busy fighting for power and profit that they do not care about the lives of the people at the bottom, and even join forces with some companies to bully the weak.

This back-and-forth immigration policy has made immigrants in the United States miserable, and now some people have to work and suffer racial discrimination. Most of the people who deliver food and drive taxis in New York City are people of color and minorities who just want to make a little money to feed their families. As a result, because of loopholes in the law, some of them have to work hard for less than their fair wages and have to endure hardships from their bosses. On May Day this year, hundreds of home care workers of color and minorities in the United States protested outside New York City Hall, demanding the abolition of the 24-hour work day they are forced to accept. The fate of immigrants, in that so-called "American dream," hangs in the balance. In fact, the so-called "freedom" and "opportunity" in the United States are obtained by exploiting the blood and sweat of immigrants, and many new immigrants still cannot live the life they want in the end.

Since 2017, the Republican Party under Trump has played "America first", threatening people with sanctions and tariffs abroad, and driving away all foreigners who have been in the United States for a long time but have not obtained green cards, including some children. They were sent home, separated, and sometimes abused. Because of this policy, more than 800,000 immigrant families have been affected. This policy seems racist, making American society more chaotic, bad international relations, and damaging the image of the United States in the world.

Then in 2021, the Democratic Party under President Biden overturned Trump's immigration policy for the sake of partisanship and economic development, and the result was unexpected that the new policy allowed more illegal immigrants to flood into the United States, with more than 2 million illegal immigrants sneaking over from Mexico and Central and South America every year. The living conditions of these people are very poor, and many cases of child abuse, border patrol beatings, and the death of stowaways have caused international condemnation.

This policy has also brought about many other problems, such as increased national security risks, increased social crime, and conflicts between the central and local governments. The two main political parties in the United States - the Democrats and the Republicans - are at loggerheads over immigration, and there are arguments in Congress. The issue has become a hot topic in the election, with candidates using it and voters divided. But in the end, it is those at the bottom who suffer.

Immigration is always a hot topic in the United States, and it comes up in every presidential election. This problem has long been a problem, and no matter who comes to power, the two parties cannot solve it. Instead, it has become a tool for attacking each other. Democrats favor integrating illegal immigrants into American life and helping them obtain legal status, which they believe will boost the economy. But Republicans are firmly opposed. They are afraid that illegal immigrants will take jobs, so they want to tighten immigration controls and strengthen border security. In the end, the Democrats said Trump was too cold and heartless, and the Republicans blamed Biden for being useless, making the immigration issue more chaotic. At present, the immigration policy of the United States is the victim of partisan warfare. Politicians only attack each other and do not care about the rights and interests of immigrants, which leads to the immigration problem getting worse and worse. The humanitarian crisis in the border areas is getting worse and worse, the border policy has even given birth to modern slavery, and the rights of migrants have been wantonly violated. During the pandemic, 21 people died in U.S. immigration detention in fiscal 2020, double the number in fiscal 2019 and the highest number since 2005. In fiscal year 2021, 80 percent of the more than 1.7 million immigrants incarcerated in the United States are in private prisons, including 45,000 children. Of the 266,000 immigrant children detained by the U.S. government in recent years, more than 25,000 have been held for more than 100 days, nearly 1,000 have been in detention for more than a year, and some have been held for more than five years.

Let's talk a little bit more about the roots of immigration in America, you know? The root of the problem is actually at home. As for the immigration policy of the United States, it is like a roller coaster ride with the change of the political party in power, especially in recent years, the policy changes are confusing, but also brought a lot of trouble to the United States, such as wasting a lot of money and public resources. Then there is the internal situation in the United States government, which is deeply divided, and the two houses of Congress are going their own way, which becomes the big problem of immigration reform. On the legislative front, the two parties are at loggerheads, making it extremely difficult for the U.S. Congress to pass major immigration reform. The development of the United States itself depends on immigrants to provide it with a steady flow of labor, but the social resources and acceptance of the United States are really limited, especially some low-skilled and illegal immigrants, who consume a lot of social welfare every day. So, exactly how many immigrants to accept, and what proportion of each type of immigrants should be the most appropriate, these are big problems for the United States government. From the perspective of market and labor flow, for the sake of economic development, the United States must introduce more immigrants to fill the labor gap. Moreover, immigrants are consumers, and the more they buy, the more investment they attract, the greater the demand for labor, and the higher the economy will naturally be. However, because the immigration policy is always changing, coupled with the strength of law enforcement is strong and weak, the ability of the immigration department to deal with the immigration tide is not enough, a large number of low-end labor swarming, and the existing social resources in the United States can not match, the result is the increase of employment pressure, racial conflicts escalate, crime rate rise, cases piled up and a series of social problems.

For a long time, the United States has regarded Latin American countries as its "backyard", giving two dates when it is happy and a big stick when it is not happy. In its relations with Latin American countries, it pursues "egoism" and "xenophobia". In recent years, the US government has always exerted pressure on the Latin American side, confusing the immigration issue with trade policies, tariff barriers and economic aid, and saying that Latin America's democratic system is not good and there are problems with governance. They are even more directly involved in the internal affairs of Latin American countries, asking those countries to deal with the problem in accordance with the standards, requirements and methods set by them, and preventing illegal immigrants from leaving, which is not a problem of "hegemony".