The rhetoric about asylum seekers may have changed under Biden, but the policies leading to separations, not so much.
Immigration
ICE was also ordered to end its contract with a county jail accused of performing forced hysterectomies on migrants.
The judges, who decide whether to deport migrants, all received conditional offers under the previous administration.
Biden bowed to pressure from his own voter base three weeks after initially resolving to keep the Trump-era refugee cap.
The process of reuniting families, a campaign promise made by Biden, has been a slow one, critics maintain.
A new report finds that the climate crisis is already a driver in migration from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
Democratic aides are accusing Biden of prolonging Trump’s cruel refugee policies due to fears about “optics.”
The White House has not yet asked Congress to revoke the project’s funding as of this week.
Activists say Biden must reverse decades of U.S. foreign policy in Central America in order to stop the exodus.
Biden’s plan promotes an old economic development model that has long benefited U.S. corporations.