#Official Commentary of Alla Barkhatnova on migration policy of US President Donald Trump
But he’s a tough guy, Trump! He endured an extremely tough campaign that never happened before and triumphantly rode into the White House. The victory, when the entire American propaganda machine worked against him, is well worth it. So he, as a businessman, offered the Americans a unique selling proposition, from which they could not refuse. And now Trump with an iron hand continues to bend the line, in particular in migration policy.
Perhaps one of the factors that influenced the results of the American elections, was that Donald John Trump is not a system American politician. He came from the hard world of business, where he made his considerable fortune. He has a little more than four billion dollars as of 2015. The Ukraine’s richest man at the time had much more, but Trump’s billions have different weight. It is one thing to make them in a country where one of the worst crimes a failure to pay taxes, and another thing – in a country where everything is possible ‘to get done.’ And if he were a system American politician, then he would go up the career ladder, caving in to the financial and political circles that promoted him. He would become the master of infighting, but would completely have lost the initiative.
And Trump has such an initiative. It made him the 45th President of the United States of America. Now he cleans the political space for himself. It is difficult, but it spurs. Trump decided to show who’s boss in the issue of migration. For America, this problem is no less serious than in Europe. In Europe, the ‘peaceful conquest’ are the Arabs and the Africans, and in the US – the Mexicans. America is on the verge of when the descendants of white Europeans will become a minority, and not even African-American but Hispanic element will become dominant.
To this end, President Trump intends to build a wall between the US and Mexico. “Construction of boundary wall at the expense of Mexico,” RIA “Novosti” reports, “was one of the points of Trumps’ election campaign. Such a physical barrier, in his opinion, would prevent illegal migration to the United States. Trump also promised to demand from Mexico from 5 to 10 billion dollars for the construction of the wall, saying that for him as a businessman it would be an “easy deal” due to the presence between the two countries of the trade imbalance.”
If the “Great American Wall” designed for Americans in border states such as Arizona, then the next migration barrier is aimed at overall US security. Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – countries from which migration is limited – are regarded by America as a problem. Of course, Afghanistan is not in this list, but migration policy – it’s an internal affair of the country.
That’s Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said: “Policy and control of entry into the country are domestic political issues. I know that there are different points of view in the United States, but the issues of entry and exit of refugees and immigrants – it’s decided by the country itself, and I would like to refrain from commenting.” And the Japanese are experts in restricting the entry of foreigners.
Against this background, concern of the League of Arab States on the President Donald Trump’s decree on the limitation of the migration from several Muslim countries looks at least strange. What kind of serious impact “on relations of the American people and the peoples of the Muslim world” can there be when for the vast majority of citizens of Muslim countries it is extremely problematic to get into the US anyway?
The fact that Donald Trump just continues the work of Barack Obama gives a special piquancy to “Mexican Wall” and “Islamophobia.” “All of these 7 countries,” the online channel “Vesti.RU” says, “is none other than the list of states that Obama included in his «Terrorist Travel Prevention Act» in 2015. For many years, administration of former President, one way or another, have sought and found a basis to restrict to the territory US citizens of these states’ citizens. “It further states that even “as a senator, at a meeting Obama openly supported the document which became the basis of Trump’s first decree as a President. We’re talking about the infamous «Secure Fence Act», which legislatively secured construction of the barrier on the boundary with Mexico.”
Trump is now accused of such an enviable commitment to the course of the previous administration, and for the firmness of his positions, political opponents are predicting him the destiny of Kennedy or Nixon. However, Trump would not be himself if he hadn’t added insult to injury by firing Acting Attorney General and head of the US Justice Ministry Sally Yates, who refused to comply with his decree on immigration, being accused of betrayal.
It seems that Europe wants to fight Trump’s migration policy. Being already an elected President, he is critical of the decision of Chancellor Angela Merkel to let to Germany Middle Eastern and African migrants, “I think she made a catastrophic mistake – namely, decided to take all of these illegal immigrants – all these people, no matter where they came from.” Chancellor Merkel immediately countered that “Europe intends to increase its economic and political power, strengthening the cooperation of 27 countries – EU member states to confront global terrorism and the protection of its borders and its economy.”
It is extremely interesting how, torn by internal contradictions, the European Union will confront global terrorism and to protect their economy and border when within these boundaries is a whole army of ‘peaceful conquest’ from Asia and Africa. While Europe intends, US begin to operate and limit the growth of migration of potentially unreliable elements.
Finally, the migration limit policy is not unique. It was practiced in different countries. However, these countries received different results. Japan’s self-isolation threw it to the periphery of world civilization in the XIX century. And Europe, closed from migrants in the period between the two world wars, or the Soviet Union in the postwar period have received a powerful impetus in the state, political, economic and social development. Let’s see what limitation of migration will bring for the United States, especially given the rampant migration in Europe. And of course, it will be interesting to see if Donald Trump breaks down under the pressure of his opponents.
Alla Barkhatnova, the DPR People’s Council deputy