{"id":80108,"date":"2024-03-05T13:20:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/crisis-trump-will-not-have-solved-before-the-election-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T13:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T13:20:05","slug":"crisis-trump-will-not-have-solved-before-the-election-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/crisis-trump-will-not-have-solved-before-the-election-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis Trump will not have solved before the election – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

– Up there somewhere many people are drowning. They are taken by the current and carried down the river. Then we pick them up down here. Manuel Mello has taken us in the fire brigade’s pickup truck through a wide opening in the rust-red border fence and down a small dirt road. He nods to some soldiers from the national guard who are standing a little further away. Manuel Mello is often on the banks of the Rio Grande river to try to save migrants from drowning. Often it is too late. Photo: tove bj\u00f8rgaas \/ news Mello is the fire chief in Eagle Pass in Texas. A small town where most of it is about illegal immigration now. We stand on the banks of the Rio Grande. The river that separates the United States from Mexico. Throwing away the clothes The river seems calm today. But what we see around us shows that this is often not the case. Only a river separates the hope for a better future for many migrants The hill is covered in clothes. Jeans, shirts, underwear and trainers. The clothes have been wet, but now they are stiff and ruined. A dirty stuffed toy lies tossed in the mud. Together with the New Testament in Spanish. Manuel explains. – When the migrants swim across, they often have dry clothes in a plastic bag on their back. Some use the bag as a floating element. When they reach the top, they wring out their wet clothes and change. The rest they just leave lying around. The fire chief has lived here all his life, and likes to help people. – We cleaned up before Christmas, but now it looks like this again. Now he and his force are overwhelmed. They have never seen so many migrants arrive at once. – It goes beyond our emergency capacity. We are supposed to help the local population, but we cannot do that now. 2 million people in one year Last year, 1,200 people a day crossed the river right here at times. Despite barbed wire both in the river and on land, migrants get through to the United States. Photo: AFP – In mid-December we had 4,000 people under the bridge here, says Mello. He has taken us further on the drive to a gravel plain under one of the two bridges that cross the river. These are the bridges migrants must actually use if they want to enter the United States. On the plain, a kind of large enclosure has been made of orange barrier tape. This is where migrants wait when they are apprehended, and at times there are several thousand people at once. Here, migrants who have crossed the Rio Grande wait to be registered in the United States. This is how it looked in December. Photo: Reuters 2 million migrants were apprehended by border police in the United States last year. It’s a solid new record. Needs scaremongering. If you set foot on US soil, you have the right to apply for asylum and to stay in the US while the application is being processed. That is the reason for the explosion, Mello believes. President Biden reintroduced this option in 2021. While Trump was president in the years before the pandemic, 80 percent of migrants apprehended after entering the United States illegally came from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. But the huge increase in the last two years is made up of people coming from further afield. Now more than half are from Venezuela, Peru, Haiti and African countries such as Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea. Manuel Mellom has also met quite a few people from Ukraine. – This form of immigration must be stopped. He says that the numbers have decreased slightly in recent months after the authorities in Texas laid barbed wire along the riverbank and the news about it got out. – We see that it helps a little when news about this gets out, he says. Trump needs immigration crisis Last week, Donald Trump visited Eagle Pass. He promised to close the border and start a big proud deportation if he becomes president. Former President Donald Trump visited Eagle Pass, Texas where barbed wire has been erected both on land and in the Rio Grande River to prevent migrants from crossing from Mexico. Photo: Reuters Mellom is a Republican, but is not a big fan of Trump. – He is using the migration crisis to win the election. What the fire chief is referring to is the agreement the Biden administration and Republicans in the Senate agreed upon a few weeks ago. It was supposed to secure a new arms grant for the war in Ukraine against the border being closed when more than 5,000 people have arrived in a week, as well as providing more money for guarding and security. – The border police union is in favor of this agreement. But for Donald Trump, the border is the big election campaign issue, he does not want it to be a solution before the election, says Mello. – I’m a Republican, but I don’t think Trump is helping us now. A large majority of Americans express dissatisfaction with Biden’s immigration policy Immigration is the most important issue in the election campaign for many voters. This was shown by a survey last week. 28 percent of respondents told Politico that they believe immigration is America’s biggest challenge now. President Joe Biden met with representatives of the Border Patrol in Brownsville, Texas. The Democrats have recently become more willing to implement measures along the border with Mexico. Photo: Reuters An economic temptation But the economy in the USA is also positively affected by migration. Companies all over the US are noticing it, and the huge supply of cheap labor is an important reason why the American economy is going so fast now. Around 50 percent of the growth in the labor market last year was due to labor that was not born in the United States, according to the research center Economic Policy Institute’s analysis of federal data. The high inflation after the pandemic was also due to a lack of labour. In addition to the lack of goods after the pandemic. Drowning before dinner. Back at the fire service in Eagle Pass, it is half past six in the afternoon, and we have just returned to the fire station with Manuel Mello. At home, his wife is waiting with dinner. But the working day is not over yet. This is what it often looks like when migrants manage to cross the Rio Grande here at Eagle Pass, Texas. This picture is from January. On the day news was present, no one came over. Photo: AFP The firefighters of Manuel are about to put their rescue boat on a trailer. – The police called and said they had seen three men swim across, but one of them struggled and went under, says one. We join the rescue a couple of kilometers up the river. Seconds later we speed off behind a fire truck with a lifeboat in tow. We are on our way back to the Rio Grande. – Firemen and police officers and scouts stand by the riverbank. But they do not see the person the police say they observed. There is only a black plastic bag floating past, – It’s the kind of bag with clothes migrants usually carry with them, explains the fire chief. He gets serious on his face and tells his men to call off the rescue operation. Fire chief Manuel Mello realizes that they will not be able to save any migrants today. Photo: Tove Bj\u00f8rgaas \/ news – More than 20 minutes have passed. It’s getting dark and I can’t put my men in danger by putting the boat out now. Does that mean a person is drowning out there while we’re standing here? – Yes, or that he has already drowned, says Manuel. – It won’t be the last time. It happens all the time. Listen to the foreign affairs editor’s weekly podcast:
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