Hot Air from the White House

Published in Frankfurter Allgemeine
(Germany) on 19 June 2019
by Andreas Ross (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Sandra Alexander. Edited by Nkem Okafor.
Do Donald Trump’s announced raids against unwelcome migrants from Central America help? His plans pursue a different motive.

Would a large-scale operation to arrest and deport tens of thousands, indeed, millions of foreigners legally required to leave the U.S. deter others from attempting illegal immigration? President Trump is banking on it.

Yet the times are long since over when primarily Mexican adventurers rather casually cheated their way into the country; those in El Salvador being extorted by gangs and fearing for the lives of their children will less easily be deterred. Trump’s former Secretary of Homeland Security had to go because she hesitated to use her tight resources for unprecedented raids – especially since many children of foreigners legally required to leave were born in the U.S. and are U.S. citizens. Are they supposed to remain behind alone?

In this situation, enforcing the law is difficult. It is simply indisputable that it makes no sense to announce raids. Trump, naturally, has difference reasons: on Tuesday he officially began his reelection campaign – but up to today, his faithfully promised border wall remains just made of hot air.


Helfen angekündigte Razzien gegen von Donald Trump unerwünschte Migranten aus Mittelamerika? Seine Pläne verfolgen ein anderes Motiv.

Würde eine Großfahndung zur Festnahme und Abschiebung von Zigtausenden, ja Millionen ausreisepflichtigen Ausländern aus den Vereinigten Staaten andere Migranten vom Versuch der illegalen Einwanderung abhalten? Präsident Trump setzt darauf.

Doch lange sind die Zeiten vorbei, da sich vor allem mexikanische Glücksritter eher leichtfertig ins Land mogelten; wer in El Salvador von Banden erpresst wird und ums Leben seiner Kinder bangt, lässt sich weniger leicht abschrecken. Trumps vorige Heimatschutzministerin hatte gehen müssen, weil sie zögerte, ihre knappen Ressourcen für beispiellose Razzien zu nutzen – zumal die Kinder vieler ausreisepflichtiger Ausländer in den Vereinigten Staaten geboren, also deren Bürger sind. Sollen sie allein zurückzubleiben?

In dieser Lage das Recht durchzusetzen fällt schwer. Unstrittig ist bloß, dass es polizeitaktisch unsinnig ist, Razzien anzukündigen. Dass Trump genau das tat, hatte natürlich andere Gründe: Er begann am Dienstag offiziell seine Wiederwahl-Kampagne – doch seine heilig versprochene Grenzmauer besteht bis heute bloß aus heißer Luft.
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