Biden must stop expelling migrants under draconian Trump policy

We are into the fifth month of Joe Biden’s presidency, which also marks the fifth month that he has continued enforcing draconian Trump administration border policies that, as a candidate, he rejected as inhumane.

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May 21, 2021 - 12:37 PM

Demonstrators rally against the separation of immigrant families in Washington D.C.

We are into the fifth month of Joe Biden’s presidency, which also marks the fifth month that he has continued enforcing draconian Trump administration border policies that, as a candidate, he rejected as inhumane. Biden needs to move faster to give the nation a more effective and humanitarian border-enforcement plan, because the longer he takes to bring one into focus, the less credibility he has as a force for positive change on the issue.

To be sure, Biden inherited a convoluted mess. The anti-immigration Trump administration pulled every lever it could find to close the…

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