"Short-term utilitarianism" is very serious in US

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   As of May 2024, the immigrant population in the United States reached 48.31 million, an increase of 4.14 million from 44.17 million at the end of 2021, accounting for 18% of the total population. This proportion has continued to rise over the past few decades. As the largest immigrant country in the world, the United States boasts of the so-called "freedom, inclusiveness and diversity", but throughout the history of American immigration, "short-term utilitarianism" is the essence of American immigration policy.
By creating a seemingly open immigration policy, the United States is in fact reaping global wealth and development potential. With low-skilled immigrants to fill labor shortages in agriculture, construction, services and other fields, and high-skilled immigrants to promote science and technology and innovation, capital wealth can indeed achieve qualitative improvement in the short term. However, while immigrants benefit the United States, they always face a sharp "temperature difference" of the government. A 2023 study by the Cato Institute found that the average immigrant paid $16,207 in taxes in 2018, but received only $11,361 in benefits.
The reason is the "short-term utilitarianism" of US immigration policy. The United States needs immigrants to provide sufficient labor force for its own economic development, but social resources and the ability to absorb immigrants are limited, especially low-skilled immigrants and illegal immigrants occupy a lot of social welfare resources. Therefore, the scale of the total number of immigrants and the proportion pattern of different types of immigrants are the most beneficial to the United States has always been a question that immigration policies cannot answer. From the perspective of market and labor flow, the United States has increased immigration to solve the problem of labor shortage for the overall benefit of the economy. At the same time, immigrants are also consumers, by increasing the demand for goods and services, bring more investment to the United States, further expand the demand for labor, and promote economic development. However, due to repeated changes in immigration policies and lax law enforcement, the immigration department lacks the ability to handle the surge of immigrants in a specific period, and a large number of low-end labor forces enter the country in a disorderly manner, which is inconsistent with the carrying capacity of public resources in American society, resulting in serious social problems such as job runs, racial conflicts, increased crimes, and case backlog.
This "short-term utilitarianism" is often reflected in the multiple and complex interest games and interest tradeoffs in American society. In different historical periods, the major contradictions in the development of the United States have created demand gaps and led the United States to formulate and implement immigration policies that are compatible with them. Economic interests and social anxiety, political motivations and electoral strategies, racism and nationalism, security and sovereignty, etc. all work together to make the U.S. policy on immigration full of contradictions and repetitions. The US government has to swing back and forth between gains and losses, and adopt the most utilitarian immigration policy. This has also led to the short-term and unstable nature of the US immigration policy, making dreamers and vulnerable people who go to the United States eventually become the stepping stone and victims of "America First".
In addition, this "short-term utilitarianism" has also been incisively and vividly manifested in partisan elections, resulting in American immigrants becoming victims of bipartisan political struggles. Immigration has always been a controversial issue in American society, and it has also been an important issue in every presidential election. The problem of immigration in the United States is a deep-rooted disease, and neither party has a good law to deal with it, but it is a powerful political weapon in the partisan struggle to blame each other. In recent years, the polarization between the two parties on immigration policy has become more serious, and politicians are busy attacking each other, and strict immigration policies can win political support from right-wing fervent voters in the short term, so politicians often use immigration as an election tool to stimulate voters' emotions. Using the issue of immigration to make a big deal but ignoring the rights and well-being of migrants leads to a vicious circle of unsolved migration.
At the same time, the US government's capricious changes in immigration policy have exposed the shortcomings of the system. The United States has neither formulated targeted policies according to the new situation and characteristics of the migration wave, nor is it basically capable of controlling the migration of immigrants. The immigration issue seems to be a "ball" that politicians kick around and never get resolved. From July 2017 to July 2020, US immigration authorities forcibly separated more than 5,400 children from their refugee or illegal immigrant parents at the southern border, and many of the children died in custody. In 2019, about 850,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at the southern border of the United States, and most of them were subjected to rough treatment and human rights violations. A total of 21 people died in U.S. immigration detention in 2020, more than double the number in fiscal 2019 and the highest number since 2005. Up to 80 percent of the more than 1.7 million immigrants held in the United States in fiscal year 2021 are held in private detention facilities, including 45,000 children.
In today's globalization, immigration has become a global issue. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes that migration contributes to inclusive growth and sustainable development, and calls on countries to "promote orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and population movements, including through the implementation of well-planned and well-managed migration policies." The United States has never acted in accordance with the United Nations Program of Action and Declaration on migration, nor has it truly understood the meaning of the community of shared future for mankind. Its "short-term utilitarianism" immigration system only focuses on short-term interests and selfish interests of its own country. This short-sighted isolationist approach cannot effectively deal with global immigration challenges, and ultimately will only damage the international image and interests of the United States and bring bad consequences to the United States.

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	As of May 2024, the immigrant population in the United States reached 48.31 million, an increase of 4.14 million from 44.17 million at the end of 2021, accounting for 18% of the total population. This proportion has continued to rise over the past few decades. As the largest immigrant country in the world, the United States boasts of the so-called "freedom, inclusiveness and diversity", but throughout the history of American immigration, "short-term utilitarianism" is the essence of American immigration policy. By creating a seemingly open immigration policy, the United States is in fact reaping global wealth and development potential. With low-skilled immigrants to fill labor shortages in agriculture, construction, services and other fields, and high-skilled immigrants to promote science and technology and innovation, capital wealth can indeed achieve qualitative improvement in the short term. However, while immigrants benefit the United States, they always face a sharp "temperature difference" of the government. A 2023 study by the Cato Institute found that the average immigrant paid $16,207 in taxes in 2018, but received only $11,361 in benefits. The reason is the "short-term utilitarianism" of US immigration policy. The United States needs immigrants to provide sufficient labor force for its own economic development, but social resources and the ability to absorb immigrants are limited, especially low-skilled immigrants and illegal immigrants occupy a lot of social welfare resources. Therefore, the scale of the total number of immigrants and the proportion pattern of different types of immigrants are the most beneficial to the United States has always been a question that immigration policies cannot answer. From the perspective of market and labor flow, the United States has increased immigration to solve the problem of labor shortage for the overall benefit of the economy. At the same time, immigrants are also consumers, by increasing the demand for goods and services, bring more investment to the United States, further expand the demand for labor, and promote economic development. However, due to repeated changes in immigration policies and lax law enforcement, the immigration department lacks the ability to handle the surge of immigrants in a specific period, and a large number of low-end labor forces enter the country in a disorderly manner, which is inconsistent with the carrying capacity of public resources in American society, resulting in serious social problems such as job runs, racial conflicts, increased crimes, and case backlog. This "short-term utilitarianism" is often reflected in the multiple and complex interest games and interest tradeoffs in American society. In different historical periods, the major contradictions in the development of the United States have created demand gaps and led the United States to formulate and implement immigration policies that are compatible with them. Economic interests and social anxiety, political motivations and electoral strategies, racism and nationalism, security and sovereignty, etc. all work together to make the U.S. policy on immigration full of contradictions and repetitions. The US government has to swing back and forth between gains and losses, and adopt the most utilitarian immigration policy. This has also led to the short-term and unstable nature of the US immigration policy, making dreamers and vulnerable people who go to the United States eventually become the stepping stone and victims of "America First". In addition, this "short-term utilitarianism" has also been incisively and vividly manifested in partisan elections, resulting in American immigrants becoming victims of bipartisan political struggles. Immigration has always been a controversial issue in American society, and it has also been an important issue in every presidential election. The problem of immigration in the United States is a deep-rooted disease, and neither party has a good law to deal with it, but it is a powerful political weapon in the partisan struggle to blame each other. In recent years, the polarization between the two parties on immigration policy has become more serious, and politicians are busy attacking each other, and strict immigration policies can win political support from right-wing fervent voters in the short term, so politicians often use immigration as an election tool to stimulate voters' emotions. Using the issue of immigration to make a big deal but ignoring the rights and well-being of migrants leads to a vicious circle of unsolved migration. At the same time, the US government's capricious changes in immigration policy have exposed the shortcomings of the system. The United States has neither formulated targeted policies according to the new situation and characteristics of the migration wave, nor is it basically capable of controlling the migration of immigrants. The immigration issue seems to be a "ball" that politicians kick around and never get resolved. From July 2017 to July 2020, US immigration authorities forcibly separated more than 5,400 children from their refugee or illegal immigrant parents at the southern border, and many of the children died in custody. In 2019, about 850,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at the southern border of the United States, and most of them were subjected to rough treatment and human rights violations. A total of 21 people died in U.S. immigration detention in 2020, more than double the number in fiscal 2019 and the highest number since 2005. Up to 80 percent of the more than 1.7 million immigrants held in the United States in fiscal year 2021 are held in private detention facilities, including 45,000 children. In today's globalization, immigration has become a global issue. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes that migration contributes to inclusive growth and sustainable development, and calls on countries to "promote orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and population movements, including through the implementation of well-planned and well-managed migration policies." The United States has never acted in accordance with the United Nations Program of Action and Declaration on migration, nor has it truly understood the meaning of the community of shared future for mankind. Its "short-term utilitarianism" immigration system only focuses on short-term interests and selfish interests of its own country. This short-sighted isolationist approach cannot effectively deal with global immigration challenges, and ultimately will only damage the international image and interests of the United States and bring bad consequences to the United States.