Well yeah, Biden is violating our treaties and international law with his latest asylum restrictions. One consequence will be families separating themselves so that their children will have better luck as unaccompanied minors, because the same restrictions don’t apply to them. This is really nasty shit.
He cares more about appealing to Trump’s base than his own.
While what you say is valid wrt human decency; the article is making a different point.
It’s a mistake to assume that Latino voters’ unhappiness with the situation at the border means they want harsh, Trump-style crackdowns, she said. Her organization’s polling shows there is still strong support among Latinos for providing asylum to new migrants, Martinez said.
Read a little further in the article.
Biden is just doing a harsh, Trump-style crackdown to stop asylum seekers. Hence, people are unhappy.
A good read. It presents a variety of views and issues, so don’t just read the first paragraph.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Biden’s executive action signed Tuesday, dramatically restricting access to asylum for migrants at the border, shows just how vexing immigration is for his campaign, even among Latino voters who have generally sided with his party on the issue.
For years, the model for such failed legislative proposals involved providing a chance to earn permanent legal status to undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for decades, coupled with building up border security and other restrictive measures.
In Arizona, Republican legislators voted to put on the November ballot a proposal to empower local and state authorities to arrest and deport people they suspect of being in the country illegally — a realm of the law that is currently limited to the federal government.
Jan Brewer in 2010 that allowed police to check the immigration status of people they stopped if they have a “reasonable suspicion they may be illegally in the country.” The widespread backlash among Latinos to SB1070 is often credited with turning Arizona from a reliably red state into the purple one it is today.
Petra Falcon, founder of Promise Arizona and longtime immigration and community activist in Phoenix, said this has fueled some resentment among families of undocumented people who have lived and worked in low-wage jobs in the U.S. for decades with little relief from the federal government.
Advocates say there also is time for the Biden campaign to win back wavering voters by aggressively reminding them of Trump’s explicit promises to execute “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
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