Immigration Takes Center Stage in the Elections: Republicans and Democrats Clash

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According to the Pew Center, the immigration issue is no longer the most important among Latinos in the electoral debate. However, with voting day approaching, this issue is heating up the candidates of both parties, so perhaps they should think twice.
Republican Kevin McCarthy, who will preside over the House of Representatives if his party wins a majority in next Tuesday’s midterm elections in the United States, presented a program in which the demands for much tougher control of immigration have a featured role.
For months, the Texas Republican governor has been sending asylum seekers to Democratic-run states on buses to draw attention to how many migrants are crossing into the United States through its Mexican border. Arizona followed, and most recently, Florida’s governor sent around 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts from Texas. According to officials, the migrants had been sent with the promise of financial assistance and jobs—neither of which were available.
In the run-up to midterm elections, Republicans and Democrats are voicing their views on immigration—which has become an even more partisan issue than ever.
“We have seen what has happened at our borders, the millions of people who just cross, people on the wanted terrorist list. Now we are seeing how each town is becoming a border town.”
A week earlier, in a speech in Washington before the Congressional Hispanic caucus, President Joe Biden accused the Republicans of turning the human suffering of immigrants into an electoral tool.
In fiscal year 2022 (April 2021 to March 2022), at least 745 people died trying to cross the Rio Grande and the desert. But so far this year, according to Customs and Border Protection figures, its agents have completed 2.76 million interceptions at the border. In 2016, when Donald Trump won the presidential elections – thanks, among other things, to the promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico – that number was less than half a million.