The wave of illegal immigrants is peaking in the United States. To the point where Joe Biden asked these immigrants to stay home. Which shouldn’t stop them.
In one month, more than 80,000 immigrants were arrested at the border for attempting to cross it illegally. The worst numbers since 2009.
US authorities expect about 13,000 unaccompanied children to cross the border in May.
It’s because Biden revoked Donald Trump’s migration decrees. The laws are therefore back to what they were before 2016. Under these laws, families of illegal immigrants can be returned to their country of origin, but not children who present themselves at the border.
Authorities suspect the parents of making the trip with their children and then sending them across the border on their own. Once these children are in the care of the US government, they can then ask to be reunited with their parents through family reunification.
One can talk endlessly about the problems illegal immigrants face in their home country or the harshness of US immigration laws. However, the root of the problem lies in two aspects which are too rarely discussed.
Minority majority
First, within 20 years, minorities will become the majority in the United States. This minorization of the old majority provokes racist reflexes which are all the more dangerous as the current minorities themselves show signs of racism towards the majority. This minorization of the majority constitutes one of the engines of the woke movement and of the “canceled culture”.
Second, the US economy is increasingly in need of highly skilled workers. Illegal immigration does not strengthen this category of jobs. It is unfair to immigrants who are skilled workers who patiently wait for the right to enter the United States.
In Quebec
Illegal immigration is increasingly affecting Quebec. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, immigration issues tend to be defined here with American parameters. To the point where it is no exaggeration to speak of American cultural imperialism, especially for the woke movement.
However, the vast majority of Quebec has never known the racist problems of the United States. If indeed it is French-speaking Quebecers who, until the 1960s, were contemptuously dominated by English-speaking people. A contempt that often persists elsewhere in Canada and which is now relayed among certain minorities.
But above all, Quebec is living in a difficult dilemma: given its low birth rate, it needs immigrant workers. Except that these immigrants are assimilating more and more slowly to Francophones, which threatens their survival.
Nevertheless, in ten years or so, given the drop in economic activity induced by the low birth rate, Quebec could find itself with surplus workers.