The game between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party about illegal immigration continues, and although Biden reached a compromise with the Republican Party at the end of last week, Trump did not do it.
According to the draft bipartisan bill released by the Senate, about 1.5 million illegal immigrants would be allowed into the United States each year, and that is the compromise of the Democratic Party. Because in 2022, 2.58 million illegal immigrants entered the United States. This means that 1 million illegal immigrants will be cut in a year, or 40 percent.
The bill stipulates that if more than 5,000 illegal immigrants enter the United States every day for a week, or more than 8,500 a day, the border will be forcibly intercepted, deported, and not accepted by new illegal immigrants.
In exchange for chips, Republicans released a $118 billion appropriations bill. These include $60 billion in military aid to Ukraine, $14 billion in military aid to Israel, and $20 billion in grants for border matters.
Republicans have previously used the appropriations bill as a bargaining chip to force Democrats to agree to tighten border controls and reduce illegal immigration. The two sides have been playing for half a year.
After painstaking negotiations between senators from both parties, a compromise on the Democratic side was agreed to by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a moderate. Last Sunday, on the 4th, the Senate unveiled a 370-page draft bill.
But Trump slammed the deal on social media on Monday, saying it was "a big gift to the Democratic Party and a self-defeating Republican Party."
As soon as Trump made a statement, Republican lawmakers who originally agreed turned their backs and refused to admit it. In particular, the Speaker of the House of Representatives on Trump's side and Republican leader Mike Johnson are announcing that they will veto this compromise bill.
Why? Because first of all, Trump feels that the Democrats' compromise is far from enough, and he wants to completely and completely deport illegal immigrants. In addition, Trump does not want a bipartisan compromise until he returns to America.
Most Americans believe that if Trump wins, he will pardon all the crimes he has committed and those convicted of his involvement in Capitol Hill**, detain and deport millions of illegal immigrants, cancel Obamacare, and direct the Justice Department to investigate his political opponents.
Having said that, the Democratic Party likes illegal immigration, one is the so-called sympathy of "white left" thinking, and the other is that illegal immigrants as an illegal status with crippled rights can indeed reduce the wages of the bottom labor force in the United States**.
The deeper reason is that although illegal immigrants may not be able to obtain legal status in the United States, their children and relatives who apply can, and these people will vote for the Democratic Party in the future to stabilize the Democratic Party's vote base, which the Republican Party deeply hates, cannot accept, and strongly opposes.
The issue of illegal immigration has become a major point of contention between the two parties. On January 22 of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to allow U.S. Border Patrol agents to temporarily remove barbed wire and other barriers that Texas had set up on its own at the border.
As a Republican-controlled big red state, Texas has set up a barbed wire border to crack down on illegal immigration. As a result, the Democratic-controlled U.S. federal government believes that Texas is overstepping its authority to manage the border, and the two sides have been suing to the Supreme Court.
Now with the interim ruling, Texas Governor Abbott issued a statement on January 24 that "under Biden's lawless border policy, more than 6 million illegal immigrants have crossed our southern border in just three years." That's more than the combined population of the 33 U.S. states. ”
Abbott declared that Texas had suffered an influx of more than 6 million illegal immigrants, which was essentially an "invasion," and therefore invoked Article 10, paragraph 3 of the U.S. Constitution – if a state is invaded, it has the right to enter a state of martial law and act without regard to Congress or **.
Abbott declared that "each state has the right to protect its own borders", that is, "the right to independent self-defense". Texas entered a "state of total war," during which local laws took precedence over federal laws.
Abbott announced the start of Operation Lone Star, mobilizing the state National Guard into the border area, which included M1 tanks, 72 M2 infantry fighting vehicles, 48 M109 self-propelled howitzers and armed *** It is clear that these ** were not used to stop migrants.
The Texas Army National Guard has four infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, and two artillery regiments, which is more than enough to deal with the U.S. federal** and federal** border guards. Still, the American Civil War didn't really start.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas "must not prevent the federal ** from removing the barbed wire," and Texas did not resist the Supreme Court, but "continued to expand." At the same time, the Federal Border Protection did not really take the initiative to dismantle it, and basically restrained it.
Therefore, both sides are making enough gestures. On Feb. 5, Abbott joined 13 Republican governors in announcing that the Texas National Guard controls and strengthens the border with Mexico and has erected more than 100 miles of barbed wire barriers, effectively deterring illegal entry. ”
Separately, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives not only announced a bill to block a compromise reached by senators from both parties, but also plans to vote on Biden's Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas this week for the first time in nearly 150 years to do so against a cabinet member.
Now it seems that the "American Civil War" ridiculed by netizens and "not as good as the United States divided into USA and USB" may not happen for a while and a half, but the current political polarization that the United States is facing is indeed a very serious situation.
The fundamental reason is that Trump has suddenly emerged, with a strong popular appeal, to seize power from the Republican establishment in the United States that has eased relations with the Democratic Party, and transformed the Republican Party into a party with more conservative colors that is tense with the Democratic Party.
This year's U.S. *** Trump is back, which is even more exciting than 2016 and 2020.