Without Pushback, Biden Goes Full Trump on Immigration

The Biden administration is reportedly weighing the implementation of the Obama- and Trump-era policy of detaining migrant families seeking asylum in the US — an approach he denounced and ended after taking office. For grassroots immigration advocates, the decision came with little-to-no surprise. Weighing the administration’s immigration policies in their totality shows they are eerily similar to those of former president Donald Trump’s administration. But they didn’t start with Barack Obama, Donald Trump, or Joe Biden. After Bill Clinton’s administration criminalized crossing the border, the George W. Bush administration painted immigration as a problem that it is not.

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