USA: Donald Trump's Mexico Wall becomes Joe Biden's problem

Donald Trump's work is sketchy and casts a long shadow: between the USA and Mexico you can see fragments of the meter-high protective wall that was supposed to stop immigrants from Central and South America on their way to the USA.

Trump's successor Joe Biden has promised not to expand the wall any further.

But not much has changed on the US southern border since he took office.

Furthermore, trenches are being dug or fences erected, landowners are expropriated at the border and most migrants are sent back to Mexico after crossing the border.

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• Mexico's proposal for a migration summit with the USA: On the wrong track by Jens Glüsing and Marc Pitzke, Rio de Janeiro and New York

"Title 42" is the name of the regulation that allows the US to close the border for medical reasons.

This is exactly what the USA is making use of with reference to the corona pandemic.

“Title 42 has another effect,” reports Marc Pitzke, SPIEGEL correspondent in the USA, “because the only ones who are not covered by this regulation are unaccompanied children and young people.

So many families send their children in advance. "

The unresolved situation on the US southern border is developing into a crisis for the US government.

And a perfidious opportunity for the Republicans to blacken Joe Biden: After all, he has not changed anything in the conditions so far.

Recently, Republican senators had themselves filmed around Texan Ted Cruz as an observer at the border, where they criticized unsustainable conditions and drug trafficking.

"The problem of the southern border also shows the smoldering racism and the fear of the white conservatives of losing their power," says Marc.

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