USA or Europe: where it is easier for an immigrant

US President Donald Trump, justifying his own controversial immigration policy, recalled the immigration scandal in Germany: “We don’t want what happens to immigrants in Europe to happen to us!” said the US President. What is happening to migrants in the USA and Europe, what is the difference in approaches and what future may await one and the other, using the examples of the United States and Germany, explains Air force.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel found herself at the center of a serious internal political conflict in mid-June due to disputes within her government coalition over refugee policy. But how different do the two countries really differ in their treatment of migrants?

Migrants: where are they from and why are they running?

U.S.:

Migrants to the United States also largely flee armed conflict and poverty, as well as organized crime.

Most of them are from Mexico, as well as Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. According to some reports, about 10% of the inhabitants of these three countries fled to other countries due to dangerous living conditions.

Germany:

At the height of the migration crisis in 2015-2016, 1,2 million refugees came to Germany. More than half of them come from war-torn Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The main reasons for their flight from the Middle East to Europe are armed violence and desperate poverty.

Among Syrian and Iraqi migrants you can often hear the phrase: “Merkel invited us.”

What is the scale of the problem?

U.S.:

The number of illegal migrants seeking to get to the United States is growing. For example, in May, 2018 in the United States attempted to reach 160% more people than in the same period last year.

US authorities estimate that border guards detain 1,5 illegal migrants every day—there have been more than 252 such detentions since October last year.

The Pew Research Center study shows that over the years 2007 to 2015, the number of undocumented immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador in the United States increased by 25%.

Germany:

Over a million migrants came to Germany as part of the Merkel open door policy in 2015. It was a peak.

Since then, the number of asylum seekers began to fall: in 2016, 720 thousand migrants arrived in Germany, in 2017 - just over 200 thousand.

Such statistics are mainly related to the migration agreement between the EU and Turkey and the strengthening of border patrols in the Balkan countries.

Source: Federal Ministry for Migrants and Refugees, Air Force Graphics

What do the authorities do with the migrants?

U.S.:

According to the new migration policy of the President of the United States, adults who are trying to illegally cross the American border, take into custody and bring criminal charges against them.

Previously, the first illegal crossing of the border by an "illegal" was treated as a minor offense - so this is a major change.

It has already led to the fact that in a month (from the end of April to the end of May) border services separated almost 2 thousand families. Hundreds of children were taken from their parents and placed in special detention centers. Some of them are located in former warehouses, supermarket buildings and even tent cities.

Germany:

The new German Interior Minister Horst Zygofer insists on the introduction of ambiguous measures involving the detention of migrants in special centers until they receive a decision on their refugee status.

According to Siegofer's proposals, migrants should be held in such "anchor centers" for up to 18 months while their asylum claims are processed.

The minister also wants to give border police powers to "turn around" illegal migrants at the border.

Authorities say the first “anchor center” could open as early as this year in Bavaria.

What are the consequences of such a policy?

U.S.:

The US president called the separation of families as a result of immigration policies “difficult and terrible,” but added that “the United States will not be a migrant camp.”

Democrats - as well as many Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan - have said Donald Trump's hard-line approach to the immigration problem will not solve it.

The UN has called on the United States to immediately stop the separation of families.

Republicans submitted a bill banning the separation of migrant families at the border for consideration by the House of Representatives, but he has little chance of being passed.

Source: US Border Guard and Customs, Air Force Schedule

Germany:

Angela Merkel has long been criticized for deciding to open German borders for migrants during the peak of the migration crisis in Europe, which fell on the 2015 year.

The scandal around this policy has strengthened the position of the extreme right in the country and sharply weakened support for the Christian Democratic Party of Angela Merkel in the last parliamentary elections.

Merkel has already refused to support Minister Sihofer’s plans to “turn around” at the border migrants who already have refugee status in another EU country.

There is now a significant risk that the Christian Social Union, which Horst Siegofer represents, will want to leave the parliamentary coalition - or at least launch a vote of no confidence in Angela Merkel's government in parliament.

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