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The massive surge across the southern border, with more than 2.4 million immigrants detained by the US authorities over the past two years, is due to the heightened crisis of world capitalism, not to any warmer welcome from Biden compared to Trump.
Worsening poverty and oppression in Central America and Haiti, oppressed and exploited for more than a century by American imperialism, are major driving forces. An additional factor this year is a huge influx of refugees from Venezuela and now Nicaragua, under the impact of US economic sanctions which have targeted the two regimes (and which do not have repatriation agreements with Washington, a legal requirement for using Title 42 against asylum seekers).
The same factors are at work in Europe, where refugees from Africa and the Middle East, fleeing imperialist wars and the resulting collapse of entire societies, are seeking refuge. These include millions from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and other countries targeted by American bombs and missiles and US or US-proxy troops, along with similar victims of British and French imperialism.
In the United States, Republican state governors are exploiting the border crisis, seeking to whip up fear and hatred of immigrants as part of the further shift of the Republican Party in the direction of fascism. They are exploiting the border crisis both to undermine the Biden administration politically and to assert the authority of their states in a way that flagrantly challenges the US Constitution, under which border policy and its enforcement are reserved for the federal government.
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