Waves of poor and mostly illiterate people are trying to enter the United States from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. They all have one thing in common. They want to escape their economic condition and gangs that terrorize them. And so they beg for asylum.
Caution Immigrant Crossing Sign on California highways near Tijuana, Mexico
The U.S. response has been to send most of those people back to their country of origin. This is not a new issue. It existed under the Obama, Trump, and now the Biden administration. Even before Obama the issue of illegal immigrants into the United States was an ongoing problem.
The issue of Mexican and Central American people trying to obtain entry into the United States by any means goes back decades. The year 1980 marked the opening of a decade of public controversy over U.S. refugee policy unprecedented since World War II. Large-scale migration to the United States from Central America began, as hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans fled north from civil war, repression, and economic devastation. That same year, in the last months of the Carter administration, the U.S. Congress passed the Refugee Act, a humanitarian law intended to expand eligibility for political asylum in the United States.
Until those countries provide their people with education, jobs, and safety from marauding gangs there will be no end to illegal entry from those nations.
As long as there is little opportunity for those people in their native countries this issue will not go away.
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