The US imperialism boasts of
American democracy and poses
itself as the champion of human
rights. Yet a spate of recent news
reports revealed that thousands of
children of immigrants are being
separated from their parents and
are being put into cages in tents
erected in deserts. These children
do not know where their parents
are and they are not allowed to
speak to their parents.
That each day 250 more
immigrant children are being
detained shows the extent of this
cruelty being perpetuated by the
US government. The jails are filled
with detained children and their
frightened cries. Across the US
more tents and camps are coming
up; some of them in deserts that
record over 100 degrees
centigrade. Many reports say that
guards are subjecting the children
to verbal, physical and sexual
abuse.
The American Academy of
Pediatrics calls this “child abuse”.
Amnesty International says it is
“nothing short of torture” and the
UN denounces it as “despicable”.
The adamancy of US government
can be seen in its withdrawal from
United Nations Human Rights
Commission stating that the
commission is not branding those
whom the US recommended as
terrorists. This is the real face of
the so-called bulwark of the human
rights.
This is not a new policy that is
being pursued by the US
imperialism. Persecution of immi-
grants is a policy that is part and
parcel of US imperialist policy of
suppression. The jailing of fugitive
slaves, the deportation of radicals
after the First World War and the
confinement
of
Japanese-
Americans during the Second
World War are only some of the
notorious.
July - 2018
The problem of immigration is
the creation of imperialist system.
It needs immigrants as cheap
labour to earn super profits. It
devastated the natural economies
in the countries of Asia, Africa and
Latin America, so that the people
of these countries migrate to
imperialist
countries.
T he
continuous war of aggression
being waged by the imperialist
countries forces the people to flee
from their countries.
During 1970s and 1980s, US
backed dictatorships in Central
America ruined the entire societies,
and the death squads tortured and
murdered thousands of people.
The US imperialism killed 3 million
people in Vietnam, Cambodia and
Laos in the 1960s and 70s. The
western imperialists ruined the
national
economies
and
environment in North and Central
Africa countries in their greed to
grab the mineral resources and still
destroying them in land grabs. For
the last quarter of a century, the
Middle East is suffering under the
US aggression causing death of
millions of people. The present
immigration problem is the result of
the imperialist policy of exploitation
and oppression as well as the crisis
of imperialist system.
Us President Trump’s reaction
reveals the ruthlessness of the
policy. He called the immigrants as
“child smugglers”. He tweeted that
“I am 100 % correct. I don’t want
judges; I don’t want to try people; I
never get these bad people in”.
The persecution of immigrants
is not confined to US imperialism
only. It is being pursued in all the
imperialist countries. In UK,
workers from Caribbean, who have
lived, worked and raised their
families for decades here, have
been threatened with deportation
and denied housing, medical
treatment, work and pensions. The
government admitted that an
“hostile environment” is being
imposed against migrants.
In Germany, almost all the
politicians talk openly of a “final
solution to the refugee issue” and
the Chancellor Merkel speaks in the
language of neo-Nazi party AfD,
blaming the refugees for causing
economic hardships and division in
the country.
In France, last month the
Macron government passed a
draconian law restricting the right
to asylum. Macron pompously
declared, “we cannot take in all the
misery of the world”. Thus
conveniently side tracking the very
misery is the creation of imperialist
system.
In Italy, the Interior Minister
Matteo Salvini has called for a
national registry of the entire Roma
people. The right wing’s demand
for deportation of 500,000
immigrants has created an
atmosphere in which violent attacks
on immigrants are frequent.
What is now being described as
the “refugee Problem” is created
by the imperialism itself. T he
W estern imperialist powers
bombed Syria and escalated its
military intervention in the Middle
East and Africa leading mounting
number of refugees. Most of them
are trapped in the countries which
are victims of imperialist intrigue
such as Lebanon, Pakistan,
Ethiopia, Uganda, Iran and Turkey.
3.5 million Syrians are now in
Turkey which acts as a shield for
European Union stopping the
migrants from entering Europe.
Poverty, unemployment and
wars are the causes of migration.
All these causes are the creation
–directly or indirectly- of the world
capitalist system. Nearly 250 million
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