, and that Biden, continuing some of his predecessor’s worst policies enacted under the guise of covid-19,
has been turning away the vast majority of single adults and even families who are attempting to seek asylumYou wouldn’t know that, though, from watching or reading the mainstream political press.
But this crisis narrative has been promoted by other mainstream press outlets, a narrative largely devoid of context but full of the conflict and drama that cable news depends upon. Take a, which featured CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera motoring along the Rio Grande and encountering a group of people from Honduras. “The Rio Grande Valley has been ground zero for the latest surge in migration and here you see the operation unfolding right in front of us,” he states.
The position has triggered steady backlash from pro-immigrant and progressive groups, but predictably won him zero points among right-wing critics who—despite Biden having kept in place what amounts to a discretionary and near-total bar to asylum, the longtime dream of Stephen Miller—continue to claim that Biden is both abandoning enforcement and has single-handedly created a humanitarian crisis among migrants, which is something they suddenly seem to care about.
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Is he trying to look like a South American military dictator on purpose?