Joe Biden's administration is coming to an end soon after he faced various problems as president USAOne of them is the immigration crisis. During his 2020 campaign, one of his main goals was to stop the government's harsh anti-immigrant practices Trump administration. However, these promises seem to be abandoned in the face of the wave of immigration that is sweeping the southern states.
In an interview with The Republic, Ramiro Escobarinternational analyst and university professor CPU, points out that immigration will be one of the recurring themes in the 2024 election campaign. “The issue of racism and anti-immigrant sentiment could be a very common theme in this election campaign.” “It will carry weight because Trump is making it one of his flags,” he said.
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Trump is pursuing the White House
Since his defeat in the 2020 elections, the former president Donald Trump has not skimped on expressing his opinion on questions from immigrationan issue that led him to winning the presidency in 2016.
In the middle of a crowd Iowa, in September last year, Trump card told his followers: “In the image of Eisenhower“We will conduct the largest domestic deportation operation in the history of the United States.”
This statement amounts to an attack on migration on a scale never seen before in history USA. This means that millions of migrants living in the North American country without legal permission will be banned from entering the country. “From that Republican Party Much tougher measures are being considered. One of the advisers suggested delisting the residency of immigrants who participate in anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian activities,” he said.
However, one of the outstanding problems for the former US president is the proceedings he faces for conspiracy to defraud and obstruction of “secret material” in tax laws. For Escobar, this would be an opportunity to convince the American electorate that he is being politically persecuted. “He will use this as a kind of hobbyhorse to give the impression that he is being politically persecuted and that they want to exclude him from the election campaign. On immigration issues, Congress blocked him in his previous term,” he said.
The former US president did not hesitate to criticize Joe Biden for immigration policies affecting the southern states. Photo: AP
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What were Biden's mistakes that could cost him re-election?
In the election campaign against it Donald Trump, Joe Biden was for the wave of migration towards USA. On his first day in office, he halted deportations and promised to end the harsh practices of the previous government.
Biden promised to limit this Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), invest in the asylum system and close private prisons for migrants. A measure that was positively received by the millions of citizens who crossed the dangerous US border every day.
On the international stageUSA has once again managed the political scene under the mandate of the Democratic president. The problem of Afghanistan It was one of the biggest crises he had to deal with Joe Biden. As is known, the North American country left the Arab country after the Taliban seized power in 2022. Another event it has experienced is the war between Israel and Hamas, which calls into question American support for the cause Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Biden is hurt by everything he has seen during his presidency, and he is drawing increasing criticism for his memory lapses. “Something that the Republican Party took advantage of to label him as 'weak' and that could work against him,” he said.
The Democratic president's soft immigration policies sparked a crisis at the border with Mexico. Photo: AP
Robert Kennedy Jr., a possible outsider?
In the political field, one of the names that surprised was that of Robert Kennedy Jr.Son of Robert Kennedy and nephew of the former American president John F Kennedy. However, he decided not to run on the Democratic side in order to succeed in the elections as an independent candidate.
“The alternative candidates in the United States have not been lucky, the political apparatus of the Democrats and Republicans is large, which makes it very difficult for an outsider,” he noted.
Robert Kennedy Jr., a member of the Kennedy family, is running independently for president after leaving the Democratic Party. Photo: Blomberg