Have you ever stopped to think about how people call immigrants illegals or aliens? In reality, no person is illegal on stolen land. Originally the United States was considered a welcoming place for immigrants and a nation for them. Thousands of years before the Europeans began crossing the Atlantic and displacing native people, the first immigrants had already arrived in North America. Today, immigrants leave their own country not because they want to but because they feel the need to or are forced to.
Currently one of the biggest events involving immigrants is the border crisis. Many of the people seeking entry to the United States are not undocumented immigrants but asylum seekers. Most migrants to the U.S are coming from politically unstable countries.
Large numbers of the population coming across the border now are from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. These people have made long journeys through jungles and many dangerous lands through various countries. Even if the U.S. tries to deport these people, their countries do not want them back. Due to the situation in immigrants’ home countries, the daily border encounters have increased rapidly since September 1st. People are asking for the federal government’s help to decompress the migrant population so that there can be some type of order.
They go through all of this to most likely be released onto the streets once they are here because the shelters are too full to take any more people in. They do not have the proper resources to care for too many people at a time. As a result, migrants are being lured onto buses, planes, and other forms of transportation by government officials using deceptive tactics and are being transported to various random locations.
Most of the people who have been transported have been confused Spanish-speaking migrants without any resources in sanctuary cities. Migrants are being used for political games, and it is time for that to stop. The things that these migrants experience are not only physically but also mentally straining. No human being would want to be treated this way.
This treatment of migrants is morally wrong, and it destabilizes an already dysfunctional immigration system. There is no doubt that there is a border crisis. It is not caused by an uncontrolled border but is a humanitarian crisis caused by political instability in other countries.