The truth about the violations of the human rights of immigrants by the United States

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs website

The truth about the violations of the human rights of immigrants by the United States

March 2023

Contents

Introduction

First, the United States has violated the rights of immigrants of all races

Second, the United States has not changed its evil behavior of violating the human rights of immigrants today

Third, multiple factors in the United States have led to the accumulation of difficult immigration problems

Fourth, the United States is the main driver of the global migration crisis

Concluding remarks

Introduction

The United States is a nation of immigrants. Since colonial times, immigrants from all over the world have been coming to the United States. However, the history of the United States' treatment of immigrants is full of inhumane tragedies of discrimination, exclusion, arrest, detention, and deportation, and violations of the human rights of migrants are pervasive and uninterrupted. In recent years, the U.S. government has created one humanitarian disaster after another against refugees and migrants to the United States. This report truthfully records the evil deeds of the United States on the issue of difficult immigration from historical and real, domestic and international perspectives, and proves with facts and data that the United States is not a self-proclaimed "beacon of democracy" on the issue of difficult immigration, but full of lies and double standards.

First, the United States has violated the rights of immigrants of all races

◆At the beginning of the founding of the United States, white Americans with Anglo-Saxon Protestants as the main body were suspicious of immigrants and tried to restrict or assimilate. Some U.S. presidents have bluntly said that there is no need to encourage immigrants other than useful skilled workers and some specific and specialized people. Fearing riots in the United States caused by the French Revolution, the U.S. government enacted laws such as the Naturalization Act in 1798, the Aliens Act, the Hostile Aliens Act, and the Insurrection of Aliens Act, which made it more difficult for immigrants to naturalize as U.S. citizens and authorized the president to imprison and deport dangerous immigrants or immigrants from hostile countries. It is worth noting that the Enemy Aliens Act is still in force today.

Blacks were one of the earliest immigrant groups in the United States. Blacks did not move to the United States voluntarily, but were forcibly emigrated and were subjected to inhuman abuse after arriving in the United States, with no human rights at all. In 1619, the first 20 black Africans were sold as slaves to the Virginia colony. Soon after, the colonies passed legislation that considered black slaves "permanent property" and that the children of black slaves automatically became slaves. Racist ideas and systems that discriminate against black people have since taken root on American soil. To justify enslaving blacks, whites established oppressive hierarchies among races based on skin color. The U.S. Declaration of Independence declared that "all men are created equal," but the original Constitution did not recognize black citizenship and established the "three-fifths clause," which multiplied the actual number of black slaves by three-fifths when allocating seats in the House of Representatives. The history of white enslavement of blacks still causes serious harm to black descendants, making it difficult to effectively protect their rights to life, development and political rights.

◆Irish immigrants were severely discriminated against and suppressed in the early days of the founding of the United States. In the 30s and 60s of the 19th century, Catholic Irish immigrated to the United States in large numbers. There has been a strong movement to reject Irish immigrants in the United States, stigmatizing Irish immigrants and labeling them as lazy, inferior, violent, dangerous and other negative labels. A large number of early nativist and xenophobic organizations and political parties in the United States were established at this time. In the 50s of the 19th century, the "American Party" (also known as the "Know Nothing" Party), whose main platform was anti-Irish immigration, produced 7 governors, 8 senators and 104 deputies. New York and Massachusetts enacted legislation to deport and deport Irish immigrants. Xenophobists also resorted to violence, attacking Irish immigrants and burning immigrant churches. In 1844, anti-Irish immigration riots broke out in Philadelphia, resulting in the deaths of at least 20 people. Irish immigrants were seen as their own black counterparts and were not accepted into white Americans until the 20th century, becoming long-term victims of racial discrimination in the United States.

◆The Chinese exclusion movement is the most notorious atrocity of discrimination and exclusion of immigrants in American history. Beginning in the mid-19th century, large numbers of Chinese laborers were trafficked to the United States as coolies by Americans, numbering more than 100,000 by 1880. Chinese workers undertook the most difficult task in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in the United States, with thousands of deaths, and made great contributions to the development of the United States with their own hard work, sweat and even lives. However, affected by the serious racist atmosphere in the United States, Chinese workers have not received the respect and kindness they deserve. With the completion of the relevant railway project, the ungrateful side of the United States and the teardown of bridges across the river quickly became apparent. In 1875, Congress passed the Page Act, restricting the entry of Chinese laborers and women into the United States. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was further enacted to completely block immigration from China and prohibit Chinese immigrants already in the United States from obtaining U.S. citizenship. It was the first and only U.S. law prohibiting all members of a particular ethnic group from immigrating to the United States on the grounds of race and nationality, and was not officially repealed until 1943. To resist Chinese immigration, USCIS established an immigration detention facility on Angel Island in San Francisco in 1910, which was not closed until 1940. Not only that, Chinese immigrants at that time were also subjected to serious violent attacks. On October 24, 1871, 19 Chinese immigrants were killed by hundreds of whites in the area of Negrow Lane, Los Angeles. In 1877, the Chinese houses in Negrow Lane were set on fire by all the whites. In 1876 and 1877, there were two consecutive riots in the United States in which white racists armed assaulted San Francisco's Chinatown. On September 2, 1885, white miners rioted in the Stone Springs mining area of Wyoming, destroying Chinese workers' residential villages, killing at least 28 Chinese immigrants.

◆Japanese immigrants have been discriminated against and ostracized by the United States. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, although Japan experienced the Meiji Restoration and its departure from Asia and Europe, the color and culture that were very different from the United States made Japanese immigrants still discriminated against and ostracized by the United States. Sentiment is particularly high on the West Coast of the United States. The city of San Francisco implemented a "Japanese school child quarantine" policy, prohibiting Japanese students from entering public schools. In 1907, the United States and Japan reached the so-called "gentleman's agreement", that is, the United States restricted the entry of Japanese immigrants, and Japan actively prohibited immigrants from going to the United States. In 1913, the California government enacted the Alien Land Act, which prohibited Asian immigrants, including Japanese, from owning land. In 1917, the U.S. Congress enacted the Asian Exclusion Zone Act, which prohibited most Asians from entering the United States as immigrants. After the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924, the Japanese were completely banned from immigrating to the United States. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, 120,000 Japanese immigrants and their descendants were forcibly moved from the west coast to inland internment camps by the U.S. government. It wasn't until 1988 that the U.S. government formally apologized for the incident.

◆White immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe were strongly rejected by the United States. Immigrants from Italy, Poland, Greece, Russia, and other countries were the majority of immigrants from the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1911, the U.S. Congress issued the "Report of the Dillingham Commission", claiming that the limited contribution of Southeast European immigrants to the United States was detrimental to the unique race, culture, and system of the United States. To limit immigration, the report recommends cultural tests for immigrants and the introduction of a national quota system. Racists attempt to use the theory of evolution to prove that Southeastern European immigrants were an "inferior" non-white race that would contaminate the Anglo-Saxon white American ancestry. Xenophobic activists launched an "Americanization campaign" that sought to deprive migrants from southeastern Europe of their language and culture and force them to "Americanize" completely. Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, required his company's immigrant workers to attend what he called "melting pot school." White supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan recruit millions of members to terrorize and attack Southeast European immigrants across the country. The October Revolution in Russia broke out in 1917, causing the first "Red Panic" in the United States. The U.S. government identified the presence of communists among southeastern European immigrants, which led to the mass arrest and deportation of southeastern European immigrants.

Fear of immigration eventually gave rise to race-based quotas. Following the Chinese Exclusion Act, the U.S. government enacted a series of laws restricting immigration. In 1924, Congress finally passed the Immigration Act of 1924. The Act limits the number of annual immigrants to the United States to exceed 2 percent of the number of nationals residing in the United States at the time of the 1890 census. Since Americans predominantly immigrated from northwestern Europe until 1890, the law effectively banned Asian immigration and restricted southeastern European immigration. The distribution of immigration quotas to countries is actually based on the color, race, and religion of immigrants, and the main purpose is to ensure that Americans are predominantly Anglo-Saxon Protestants. It was not until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965 that restrictions on the ethnic origin of immigrants were officially abolished, and immigrants from all countries were granted relatively equal entry rights to the United States.

◆Since the 20s of the 20th century, Hispanic immigrants, especially Mexican immigrants, have become the most excluded objects in the United States. In 1924, the United States established the Border Patrol, and since then the vast majority of the migrants arrested by the United States each year are Mexican immigrants. In 1929, the United States made illegal entry a felony in an attempt to prevent Mexican immigrants from entering. During the Great Depression, tens of thousands of Mexicans were deported from the United States. After the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, Mexico became the largest source of immigration to the United States, often accounting for 90 percent of the arrests and deportations of Mexican immigrants. At the end of the 70s of the 20th century, the number of arrests of Mexican immigrants per year was close to 800,000, rising to 1.5 million by the end of the 90s. The influx of Mexican immigrants has once again stirred strong xenophobia in the United States. In his book Who We Are, the American political scientist Huntington argues that Mexican-American and other Hispanic immigrants "ultimately have the potential to turn the United States into a nation of two peoples, two languages, and two cultures." White supremacists in the United States often target Hispanic immigrants. In 2019, a man who believes in white supremacy drove thousands of kilometers to the city of El Paso in the western part of the state because of his hatred of the continuous "invasion" of Texas by Hispanics, shooting and killing 23 people at a Walmart supermarket. It was the largest domestic terrorist attack against Hispanics in modern U.S. history.

◆After 9/11, Muslim immigrants became the focus of U.S. surveillance and exclusion. Shortly after 9/11, more than 1,200 people, mostly Arabs and Muslims, were arrested and detained by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. Many have been held for months without charge and denied access to lawyers and families. Most end up being deported for minor immigration violations. More than 80,000 adult men from 25 Muslim countries were asked by the U.S. government to have fingerprints and photographs, 13,000 entered deportation proceedings and 2,870 were detained. The Patriot Act enacted in the United States after 9/11 greatly expanded the government's powers, allowing the U.S. government to monitor and deport foreigners suspected of being linked to terrorism at will, with Muslims becoming the main target group. The events of 9/11 had a strong impact on American society and made "Islamophobia" penetrate into the American political arena. In 2017, the U.S. government issued a "ban on Muslims," requiring citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen to enter the United States for at least 90 days.

Second, the United States has not changed its evil behavior of violating the human rights of immigrants today

◆In the 21st century, successive US governments have increasingly restricted immigration, and treated immigrants harshly and inhumanely, and the arrest, detention, deportation, and repatriation of immigrants have been carried out on a large scale every year. In 2019, the U.S. government apprehended 850,000 immigrants, rising to more than 1.7 million in 2021, the highest number since 1986. The number of immigrants detained has grown rapidly. In August 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained more than 203,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico, resulting in more than 2.3 million immigrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022. In 2013, more than 430,000 immigrants were deported from the United States, an all-time high, and in 2019, there were still 360,000, and more than 100,000 immigrants are deported each year. In mass arrests, detentions, deportations and repatriations, migrants' human rights are violated and humanitarian disasters are frequent. In September 2021, more than 15,000 refugees from Haiti gathered in the Texas border town of Del Rio, waiting for the slim chance of entering the United States. U.S. border law enforcement treated the refugees brutally, and patrolmen rode on horseback and brandished horsewhips into the crowd to drive them into the river. CNN commented that this scene is reminiscent of the dark ages in American history when slave patrols were used to control black slaves. On October 25, 2021, the UN Human Rights Council condemned the systematic and mass deportation of Haitian migrants by the United States without assessing their individual situation as a violation of international law.

◆The tragedy of the "migrant truck" reflects the rampant smuggling and trafficking of human beings in the United States. On June 27, 2022, a trailer truck carrying illegal immigrants from the Texas border city of Laredo, 150 miles away, was found outside San Antonio, Texas, and local human traffickers planned to use trucks to transport illegal immigrants through San Antonio to the interior of the United States. The truck was abandoned on the side of the road due to mechanical problems, and when it was found without water, air conditioning, nearly 100 people were crowded, and 53 people died from the sweltering heat due to local temperatures of up to 38 degrees Celsius. It was the worst immigrant death in the U.S. to date. Due to chronic weak law enforcement and judicial absence, human trafficking and forced labor in the United States have become increasingly rampant, with thousands of human smuggling and trafficking cases occurring every year in recent years, similar to the "migrant truck" tragedy, and 557 illegal immigrants died in the southern border of the United States in fiscal year 2021 alone.

◆After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the US government used the epidemic as an excuse to deport illegal immigrants on a large scale. In 2020, the U.S. government invoked Title 42 of the United States Code to ban immigrants from entering the country under the pretext of preventing the spread of the pandemic. Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believe that this approach lacks public health justification and increases the likelihood of spread. The U.S. government has carried out more than 1.8 million deportations, deporting at least 215,000 parents and children, 16,000 of whom were unaccompanied children. Migrants who have not been deported temporarily are sent to detention centers and continue to be subjected to inhumane treatment.

◆The United States has established the world's largest immigration detention system. Currently, there are more than 200 detention facilities in border states. In order to save costs, the U.S. government often handed over immigration detention camps to private companies to build and operate, forming de facto private prisons. Conditions in the camps are appalling and can lead to physical and mental illness or death. In July 2019, U.S. Democratic U.S. Representative Ocasio-Cortez, after visiting several Border Patrol stations along the U.S.-Mexico border, said she witnessed women detained without water, shelter managers asking them to drink water from toilets, and border patrol stations treating immigrants like animals, amounting to systematic abuse. CNN reported that a total of 21 people died in U.S. immigration detention in fiscal year 2020, more than double the number of deaths in fiscal 2019 and the highest number since 2005. Of the more than 1.7 million immigrants held in the United States in fiscal year 2021, up to 80 percent were held in private detention facilities, including 45,000 children. The El Paso Times reported on June 25, 2021 that the problem of private contractors has exacerbated the terrible chaos at the Brisburgh shelter in the United States, where nearly 5,000 children are detained in crowded, poor conditions like "livestock paddocks", inflicting severe physical and psychological trauma.

◆U.S. immigration policy has caused serious humanitarian disasters to immigrants. In April 2018, the U.S. government has imposed a "zero tolerance" policy on illegal immigrants to prevent them from entering the country, forcibly separating them from their minor children under appalling conditions. Video footage provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection showed some children even being held in cages covered only with thin blankets. On 18 June 2018, Zeid Hussein, then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said at a Human Rights Council session that separating migrant children from their parents constituted "government-sanctioned child abuse." UN human rights officials also called on the United States, as the only country in the world that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to accede to the Convention as soon as possible and to respect the rights of all children. Hundreds of thousands of people in all 50 states staged demonstrations under the theme "Family Should Be Together" to protest the "zero tolerance" immigration policy that has led to the forced separation of at least 2,300 children from their families.

◆U.S. law enforcement agencies have never stopped abusing immigrant children. In 2019, thousands of children were still separated from their parents, 20% of whom were under the age of 5. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. government's enforcement of Title 42 of the United States Code exacerbated the humanitarian catastrophe of separating children from their parents. CNN reported on April 23, 2021 that U.S. Customs and Border Protection is also detaining more than 5,000 unaccompanied migrant children, many beyond the legal time limit. Data show that of the 266,000 immigrant children detained by the US government in recent years, more than 25,000 have been detained for more than 100 days, nearly 1,000 have spent more than a year in internment camps, and many have been detained for more than five years. The New York Times reported on June 26, 2019 that a team of lawyers, doctors, journalists and others inspected the detention facility at the Clint border shelter in Texas and found that children were in a prison-like environment, with hundreds of children held in a cell with little adult supervision, and some members likened the conditions of their detention facilities to "torture facilities." UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet was deeply alarmed by the poor conditions of overcrowded hearts and lack of medical care and food in detention in the United States, noting that the detention of migrant children may constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment prohibited by international law, the United Nations website reported on July 8, 2019. The website of the British "Guardian" reported on October 11, 2021 that between 2016 and 2021, there were more than 160 cases of abuse of asylum seekers, including children, involving major law enforcement agencies such as US Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol.

◆Even if illegal immigrants avoid detention and deportation, it is difficult to be treated equally by American society and will become victims of criminal activities. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, illegal immigrants have the right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In practice, however, illegal immigrants are often discriminated against by law and system, making it difficult to enjoy basic rights and benefits. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Accountability Act of 1996 eliminated most of the public remedies that illegal immigrants were entitled to, and even prohibited the automatic citizenship and public benefits of the descendants of illegal immigrants born in the United States. Many illegal immigrants are victims of human trafficking and forced labor in the United States. The Associated Press reported on December 10, 2021 that illegal immigrants who have been smuggled into the United States for years have been forced to work on farms for long periods of time, living in dirty, crowded trailers, lacking food and clean drinking water, and have also been threatened with violence by regulators. The workers' identity documents were withheld and they were unable to seek help to escape their predicament. A human trafficking indictment documented dozens of workers from Mexico and Central America trafficked to Georgia farms in the United States, where they were wrongfully imprisoned and forced to labor in appalling conditions, becoming victims of "modern slavery" in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's website on November 22, 2021. After being tricked into farming with promises of high pay, they were forced to dig for onions with their bare hands under the watchful eye of gunmen, and were paid only 20 cents for each bucket of onions, at least two of whom died and one was sexually assaulted multiple times.

◆To this day, there is still serious discrimination against immigrants and their descendants in American society, and the problem of "Asian phobia" has been particularly prominent in recent years. According to a 2022 survey by Stop AAPI Hate, which reported 11,467 incidents of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) hatred in the past two years, only 49 percent of AAPI residents felt it was safe to go outside, and as many as 65 percent were concerned about the safety of family members and seniors. As many as 72% of AAPI people who have experienced hate incidents believe that racial discrimination is their biggest stressor, even more than health concerns during the pandemic.

Third, multiple factors in the United States have led to the accumulation of difficult immigration problems

◆Deep-rooted racial discrimination in the United States is an important cause of the immigration problem in the United States. Racism permeates U.S. immigration policy and attitudes toward immigrants. Originally a predominantly Anglo-Saxon Protestant country, the United States still sees the culture of this group at the heart of American national identity. Non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant immigrants were often seen as an "inferior" race. With the influx of Hispanic and Asian immigrants, the United States is becoming increasingly diverse in race and culture. In recent years, 40 percent of the new population in the United States has come from immigrants. As whites age badly, immigrants will contribute more and more to U.S. population growth. Demographic changes have left many whites extremely worried about their status, which in turn has led to stronger support for conservative political positions among whites, regardless of political affiliation. According to the survey, 56 percent of U.S. voters believe the U.S. is still a racist society, and 70 percent of blacks believe that more than half of whites believe in white supremacy.

◆The political polarization of the United States has led to a worsening immigration problem. In recent decades, the issue of immigration has become increasingly tied to economic, racial, ideological and cultural values, and the Democratic and Republican parties have attacked each other and it is difficult to reach a compromise. Democrats accuse Republicans of embracing nativism and white supremacy for the sake of white votes, and inciting xenophobic and racist rhetoric. Republicans accuse Democrats of increasing minority votes and congressional seats by accepting immigrants. Due to bipartisan strife, the U.S. Congress has failed to pass a major immigration reform bill since passing the comprehensive Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986. Although both Democrats and Republicans have proposed their own immigration reform plans, they have quickly reached a dead end.

◆Since the United States entered the mid-term election cycle in 2022, the two parties have used difficult immigrants as political game chips, and the government has relaxed immigration control policies to a certain extent in order to cater to public opinion and solicit votes, allowing illegal immigrants to rekindle the hope of "fulfilling their dreams of America", resulting in a surge in the number of illegal immigrants at the border. Some Republican governors have used transportation methods such as buses and charter flights to transfer immigrants from the state to Democratic-controlled states and cities in an attempt to embarrass the government. In September 2022, the Republican governor of Florida sent a plane to transport 50 refugees from Texas to Massa Vineyard, Massachusetts, and the governor of Texas, also a Republican, took more than 100 Latin American refugees by bus directly outside the vice president's residence. These migrants were promised good jobs and wages before they were transferred, only to find that they were still not properly resettled at their destinations.

◆Conservative politicians and media in the United States play up the threat of immigration and incite anti-immigrant sentiment. The extreme right-wing forces and conservative media in the United States have concocted the so-called "Great Replacement Theory", claiming that white Americans are being deliberately replaced by immigrants and minorities, and this extreme idea has led to many terrorist incidents against immigrants and minorities in the United States. The 2019 El Paso Walmart supermarket shooting was the most serious anti-immigrant incident caused by this perception. Since 2018, white supremacists have killed the most extremist violent group in the United States. In recent years, the Republican Party has played the immigration threat card in the campaign, successfully aroused conservative attention to immigration issues, and launched a large number of extreme anti-immigration measures, resulting in serious violations of the human rights of migrants. The Democratic administration, intimidated by conservative opposition, did not dare to easily relax the deportation and detention of immigrants in order to win white votes, resulting in a humanitarian disaster for immigrants continuing to unfold on a large scale in the United States. Conservative politicians and media in the United States also exaggerate that immigrants crowd out the employment opportunities of low-skilled workers in the United States, pull down their wage levels, crowd out their welfare resources, increase local government financial spending on education, medical care, relief, etc., and regard immigration as a "scapegoat" for contradictions in the United States, while ignoring the long-term and overall positive effects of immigration on the US economy, including sending a large number of labor, taking over low-end jobs that Americans are unwilling to do, and slowing down the aging of the population.

Fourth, the United States is the main driver of the global migration crisis

◆The United States has consistently pursued a policy of hegemonism and excessive use of force. In the more than 240 years of nation-building history, only 16 years have not been fought. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said frankly: "The United States is the most warlike country in the history of the world." "The belligerent behavior of the United States has triggered multiple influxes of refugees. Since 2001 alone, the United States has killed more than 800,000 people in other countries, and more than 20 million refugees have been generated in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and other affected countries alone. Research by the "Cost of War" project of Brown University in the United States found that since 2001, the United States has spent $6.4 trillion on military operations in 85 countries around the world in the name of "counter-terrorism", directly resulting in the death of at least 929,000 civilians and the displacement of 38 million people.

◆In Asia, the involvement of the United States in the Korean War has led to the death of more than 3 million civilians and the creation of about 3 million refugees. South Korean official data alone shows that more than 132,000 South Koreans have registered as separated family members, and many elderly people lament that "I may not see my relatives in North Korea in this life." In the 70s of the 20th century, the United States lost the Vietnam War and retreated from Saigon, producing countless refugees who fled Vietnam.

◆In the Middle East, in 2003, the United States launched the Iraq War without the authorization of the United Nations Security Council and strong opposition from the international community. Between 2003 and 2021, some 209,000 Iraqi civilians died in war and violent conflict, and about 9.2 million Iraqis became refugees or were forced to leave their homeland, according to the Global Statistics database. By fostering a number of proxies to deeply participate in the Syrian war and the Libyan civil conflict, the United States has caused the local war and conflict to drag on, and political reconciliation and social stability are far away. According to data released by the United Nations, the US military involvement has killed at least 350,000 people in Syria, displaced more than 12 million people, and urgently needs humanitarian assistance for 14 million civilians. The Syrian refugee problem has been called by the United Nations "the greatest refugee crisis of our time." The nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan has left 2.6 million Afghans fleeing the country and displacing 3.5 million, according to UNHCR.

◆In Europe, in the 90s of the 20th century, the US intervention in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia directly intensified the country's ethnic contradictions. The wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have resulted in the deaths of nearly 300,000 people and the status of nearly 3 million refugees. In March 1999, under the banner of "avoiding a humanitarian catastrophe", the US-led NATO forces brazenly bypassed the UN Security Council to bomb the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for 78 days, killing more than 2,000 innocent civilians, injuring more than 6,000 and displacing nearly 1 million.

U.S. global military intervention has led the refugee crisis to Europe. Europe believes that it is the interference and wars of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and other countries that have created a large number of refugees, and the main destination of these refugees is Europe, not the United States. In the aftermath of the Syrian refugee crisis, most refugees flocked to Europe, sparking anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing populist movements in Europe. The Republican administration of the United States not only strongly opposes the acceptance of Syrian refugees, but also lowers the limit for accepting refugees in the United States to the lowest level in 40 years, and directly bans refugees from seven Islamic countries from entering the United States. The Democratic government's urge to take in some Afghan refugees has alarmed the bloc, fearing that another massive wave of Muslim refugees could further fuel a wave of right-wing populism. French President Emmanuel Macron has bluntly said that Europe cannot bear the consequences of the situation in Afghanistan alone.

◆In Latin America, the United States has long interfered in the internal affairs of Latin American countries, resulting in extremely unstable situation in the region and backward economic development, which has caused a large number of immigrants to seek asylum and livelihood opportunities in the United States. In order to deal with Latin American migrants, the United States has both hard and soft, either forcefully deporting and repatriating Latin American migrants, or allowing potential migrants to stay and develop in their home countries. The U.S. government's aggressive deportation and repatriation of Latin American migrants has further created instability, violent crime, and humanitarian disasters in the region. Democratic U.S. Representative Ocasio-Cortez criticized: "The United States has been responsible for the instability of regime change in Latin America for decades. We can't set fire to someone's house and then blame them for fleeing. ”

◆The United States and Latin American countries have frequent conflicts on the issue of immigration and entry. Migrants deported by the United States are stranded in Mexico, exceeding Mexico's ability to receive and process, leading to a deterioration of local social security and causing dissatisfaction among the Mexican government. The U.S. government insisted that the Mexican government block its own and Central American migrants from traveling to the United States, but Mexico blamed the U.S. immigration policy for causing the surge in immigrants. The Northern Triangle of Central America, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, has been the leading source of refugees to the United States in recent years. The U.S. government pressured the three governments and sternly warned potential immigrants not to come to the United States, and the tough approach disappointed Central America and caused dissatisfaction in the United States.

◆The eastward expansion of NATO led by the United States is an important and deep root cause of the Ukrainian crisis, and the United States is the initiator and biggest promoter of the Ukrainian crisis. After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the US government advocated keeping Ukrainian refugees in European countries or allowing them to return to Ukraine as soon as possible, and was reluctant to accept a large number of Ukrainian refugees. As of January 2023, more than 7.91 million Ukrainian refugees were registered across Europe, according to UNHCR. Until late July 2022, the U.S. government claimed to have accepted 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, but it is still far from matching the number of the European Union, and its focus is on family reunification for Ukrainian-Americans.

Concluding remarks

Throughout the history of the United States' treatment of immigrants, Africans, Irish, Eastern Europeans, Southern Europeans, Jews, Asians, Latinos, Muslims and other immigrants from almost all over the world who came to the United States have been cruelly treated by the US government. The United States Government is also interfering in the internal affairs of other countries around the world, waging wars, creating large-scale humanitarian disasters and migration crises, shirking responsibility and shifting the consequences to other countries. The United States should seriously examine and correct its own bad deeds on the issue of difficult immigrants, earnestly improve the situation of immigrants, stop hegemonism and bullying, stop creating a new refugee crisis, stop playing the role of "human rights defender", and stop smearing and suppressing other countries under the pretext of human rights issues.