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Immigrants suffer as partisanship intensifies! The fierce conflict between the Texas state government and the federal government over the issue of immigration continues, with some even referring to it as a "national divorce." A global online poll conducted by CGTN showed that 86.5 percent of global respondents believe that the confrontation between the two sides over immigration once again highlights the fact that the two parties in the U.S. are escalating their rivalry and that politics is becoming increasingly disorganized.
Immigration has long been a subject of contention between the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States. In order to avoid their political responsibilities, the two parties have gone so far as to "send immigrants" to each other. During the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, Republican politicians, including the governor of Texas, used buses and airplanes to transport thousands of immigrants to Democrat-run cities.
Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows that 856 migrants died while crossing the southern U.S. border in fiscal year 2022. The migrant tragedy in Texas that year remains devastating.
In the survey, some 70.2 percent of respondents were deeply concerned about the violence and inhumane behavior of the U.S. government in dealing with immigration and believed that U.S. law enforcement officers have seriously violated the basic human rights of migrants. Another 93.5 percent of respondents said that it is very disappointing that the immigration issue has become a tool for campaigners to win votes in successive U.S. elections. Still, it is difficult to follow through on the political promises made to them after the election.
The intensifying immigration problem has not only lifted the fig leaf of American democracy and human rights but also exposed the deep-rooted and structural disorder in the governance of American society.
In the survey, as many as 90.3 percent of the respondents believe that the U.S. constitution's "vague indulgence" of illegal immigrant groups and other structural reasons would escalate the power struggle between the federal government and states governed by competing political parties; 89.3 percent of the respondents said that the immigration issue is only the tip of the iceberg of the U.S. domestic political chaos in the context of the polarization of U.S. politics, and "America against America" may become the norm.
"This (immigration chaos) is the beginning of the decline and collapse of the United States," a CGTN netizen said in a message.
The survey was released on CGTN's English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Russian platforms, with more than 11,000 netizens voting and expressing their opinions within 24 hours.
(Cover: The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 6, 2023. /CFP)