Julio Ricardo Varela: Biden should have immediately made good on his 2020 campaign promises to end Trump’s cruelty, but he didn’t.
When Joe Biden was running for president, his campaign website, a hostility that included Trump’s implementation of a new rule known as Title 42 that closed the southern border to asylum-seekers under the guise of preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.
“Trump has waged an unrelenting assault on our values and our history as a nation of immigrants,” the language on Biden’s campaign website read. “It’s wrong, and it stops when Joe Biden is elected president.”On Biden’s campaign website there were promises to build “a fair and humane immigration system” and to restore “the progress Trump has cruelly undone.
The vow to treat asylum-seekers with “dignity” was a broken campaign promise from Biden. There is no other way to categorize it. His administration is just now announcing a plan to end Title 42. According to an order issued Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the harmful policy willBut the move might be too late to help Democrats politically.
For asylum-seekers — people who have valid reasons to flee from worsening economic conditions, violence and climate changes — the consequences have been many: basic lack of due process, deplorable conditions in makeshift migrant camps and constant dehumanization.Haitian refugees seeking asylum were as cruel as any immigration action under any recent American president. Those Haitian refugees were turned back because of Title 42.
. “Title 42 is a public health authority and not an immigration policy, and it is important to note that Title 42 is applicable, and has been applicable, to all irregular migration,” Mayorkas said then.
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