The Biden administration will be inaugurated on the 20th. Along with the new corona measures, the first issue to be addressed is immigration. It would shift 180 degrees from the Trump administration's hard line on immigration policy and return it to an "immigrant-friendly" policy. The lives of asylum seekers from Central and South America who head to the United States to escape violence and poverty but wait on the Mexican side without even getting an application are extremely poor, and the response has not been waited for from human rights. However, the new administration wants to avoid the spread of the new corona and the mass migration at the same time. Even if it is a signboard policy of the new administration, it has already been made to hand, and the footing is put. Depending on how the policy is carried, it is likely to be exposed to criticism from various fields.

Mr Biden will be the second Catholic president after Kennedy. About 40 percent of the world's Catholics live in Latin America, and Latin America is the largest catholic power. Mr. Biden visited Latin America a long time during the Obama administration and has a lot of trust from Latin America, but immigration policy is focused not only on his beliefs as a politician, but also on his faith as a Catholic.

Biden's first test of immigration policy will be the early repeal of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) introduced by the Trump administration. The name is like a decision for immigrants, but the other name is called the "Remain in Mexico Program," a policy that pushes asylum seekers back to the U.S. side and forces them to wait for court hearings for asylum. Before the agreement was signed between the United States and Mexico, asylum seekers waited in the United States for hearings. However, the Trump administration, which had an enemy of immigration, had a stance that "it can't be that way."

It came into force in January 2019, but human rights groups and others have been strongly opposed since the agreement began to be discussed.

Earlier this month, the international human rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch (headquartered in New York) published a report on MPP abuses, titled "Limits Already." The announcement, which was investigated along with Stanford university's mental health research institute and others, is aimed at urging the Biden administration to implement an immediate scrapping of the MPP.

According to the report, more than 69,000 asylum seekers have been driven out of the United States so far and housed in shelters in Mexican cities bordering the United States, including Tifana, Ciudad Pares, Mexicali, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros.

Each city is filled with crime, with Mexican gangs in full of crimes. Even in poorly-security Mexico, border towns are even worse. Tifana, which borders San Diego in the U.S., and Ciudad Pares, which borders El Paso, are among the most dangerous cities in the world, and are always ranked high in various surveys (the top depending on the survey).

Asylum seekers are a prime target for rape and other sexual offences, kidnapping for ransom purposes, and robberies at gun point, and are tormented every day. And, the corruption of the official catches up.

In the report, the Venezuelan woman who sought asylum with her two young children, was kicked out of the United States and made to go to Ciudad Pares. Terrified with his children, she tried to flee Ciudad Pares by bus to another town she knew, and was asked by Mexican immigration officials to pay him what little 2,500 pesos (US$120).

Desperate to escape violence and poverty, those who desperately sought help from the United States are left out of the U.S., fall prey to violence and corruption in Mexico, and suck everything up.

The report's title, "Limits Already," is a heartfelt cry of immigrants and the last word that can be squeezed out.

According to the Strauss Center, a research organization at the University of Texas at Austin, 35 percent of asylum seekers driven to Mexico by the MPP are from Honduras, 24 percent from Guatemala and 12.5 percent from El Salvador.

These three countries are said to be the Northern Triangle of Central America. Violence and corruption have spread in the poorest parts of the Western Hemisphere, and many people have abandoned the country. Undocumented immigrants from these three countries have formed criminal organizations in the United States to commit a variety of crimes, including drug and gun smuggling, kidnapping, human trafficking, murder, and money laundering.

The representative is "Mara Salvatingcha". It is called "MS-13" because it is an organization mainly from El Salvador. They began working in Los Angeles in the 1970s, but has been in power since the early 90s, when El Salvador's civil war intensified.

Now, the U.S., Canada, Mexico etc are active places. The original street gangs also partnered with Mexican criminal gangs to become criminal gangs that outnumbered the former Italian mafia.

The Trump administration directly linked Latin American immigrants with these criminal organizations, labeling them "immigrants evil."

The United States once viewed Latin America as a "backyard" and repeatedly interfered in domestic affairs with the banner of "the anti-communist fort." The U.S. manipulated dictators and tormented the people by condoning violence. This history has led to poverty in Latin America today. The Trump administration has stirred up American nationalism by ignoring all its history and rejecting immigration.

The Obama administration, where Mr. Biden served as Vice President, went into immigration policy with a head-on view of America's former hegemony. It is recognized the "responsibility of the United States" for creating poverty lead to refugees. The Biden administration's immigration policies in Latin America follow the Obama administration' content.

However, the four years of the Trump administration have greatly changed common sense in the United States. In order to regain the "immigrant-friendly" United States, there is a challenge of "changed national sentiment" besides the new crona pandemic.

Taro Yanaka/ Journalist

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