Watching a new migrant caravan of around 400 men, women and children start to move from the Southern Mexican town of Tapechula is a painful reminder that 78-year-old President Joe Biden has no answer for the failed states of Mexico, Central and South America. Biden slammed 75-year-old President Donald Trump for border policy, especially his attempt to secure the Mexican border with an upgraded wall. Most know that whatever barrier exists, the “coyote” industry of smugglers, both human and drug, find ways to get around any barriers, especially where barriers are not feasible because of natural terrain. Biden branded Trump as a heartless racist in the 2020 campaign, conflating border issues with the ex-president’s support of white supremacists, a complete fiction that played well in the Democrat narrative. Trump lost the PR battle because the U.S. media played along with Democrats.
Border problems have been a perennial issue at the U.S. Southern border, largely because of failed states, unable to provide enough jobs to support growing populations in the Southern Hemisphere. Biden and his 56-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris talk about supplying failed states in Mexico, Central and South America more foreign aid, something that’s barely trickled down in the past because or rampant corruption in government officials. Gang problems in Mexico, Central and South America make life intolerable for populations willing to brave any danger making the trek to the U.S. Southern border. Whatever Congress debates about immigration reform, the undeniable problem with the U.S. Southern border prevents any rational solution in Washington, largely because there’s no quick fix regardless of political party. Immigration, like race, has become a seasonal political issue.
No amount of U.S. foreign aid can solve the intolerable living conditions in the Southern hemisphere. No matter how much cash it thrown at solving economic and social problems in the Southern Hemisphere, there’s simply no easy fix, other than allowing Mexican, Central and South American refugees to enter the United States. When you consider American corporate dependence, in whatever industry, on cheap foreign labor, the U.S. government plays along. Watching the movement of the latest caravan move slowly toward the U.S. border reminds politicians about the desperate conditions that prevail in the Southern hemisphere’s failed states. Once oil-rich countries like Venezuela have watched immigration, like warn-torn Central American countries Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, where populations scattered due to military and gangs persecuting local populations.
Former President Trump threatened to sanction Mexico for not doing enough with its military to stop the immigration flows into the U.S. But whatever the number of illegal immigrants seeking entry into the U.S., it’s not enough to stop a declining U.S. white population, whose family patterns show not enough births to stop a shrinking population. Republicans and some Democrats exploit the unending immigration as the threat to U.S. national security, exaggerating the possibility to terrorists or gang members entering the U.S. from the Southern border. But the real threat to U.S. national security comes from its shrinking population. U.S. non-Hispanic whites have a 1.638 child birthrate, not enough to stop the death rate, already increased by the global coronavirus pandemic, killing nearly 670,000 Americans, more than the death toll from the 1918 Spanish Flu, one of the worst plagues in world history.
U.S. media sensationalizes migrant caravans, deliberately frightening U.S. citizens, when the country needs all the migration it gets from the failed states of the Southern Hemisphere. Europe has a worst family birth rate than the U.S. with about 1.55 children per family, accounting for a decline in the continent’s population. While there are plenty of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, it presents far worse problems than Southern immigration into the United States. When you look at shrinking population trends in Asia and India, the need for immigration has never been greater. U..S. elected officials need to look at shrinking worldwide demographic trends, causing a competition for the world immigrant pool. China has been so worried about its shrinking population that it recently cancelled the forced sterilizations and one child policy, with the Beijing increasing the number to three children per family.
U.S. elected officials have to stop playing politics with the U.S. immigration problems from the Southern border to recognize the necessity of the immigrant labor pool. Uniquely positioned for economic growth, the U.S. is a magnet for immigration from around the globe, offering opportunities like no other country. Politicians or political parties using the immigration issue as a wedge can only lose votes in the future. Instead of ranting about how immigrants generally gravitate to the Democrat Party, the Republican Party must be equally welcome immigrants to remain competitive in future elections. U.S. Federal Reserve Board and Treasure don’t like to admit the dirty secret about illegal immigration in the U.S.: It keeps entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare solvent into the foreseeable future. Most illegal immigrants never see government benefits.
