![]() And earlier this year, amid plans to finally phase out Title 42, Biden instituted his own version of a signature Miller anti-asylum policy requiring migrants to first apply for asylum in the countries they pass through on their way to the U.S. Biden’s embrace of the policy, which authorized the expulsion of would-be asylum-seekers without due process on the spurious grounds of protecting public health, came as a surprise to-and betrayal of-the immigrant advocacy community. Yet it quickly became clear that the antipathy to Trump’s legacy was a bit more about aesthetics and a bit less about substance.Ī first indication that the mainstream Democratic approach would come to settle into an asylum-skeptic groove was Biden’s continuation of the Title 42 program, which Miller-Trump’s anti-immigrant czar-had dreamed up. As a candidate, Biden capitalized on this outrage by promising to end Trump’s cruel immigration policies, and on his first day in office reversed multiple immigration-related executive orders. ![]() As the Trump administration waged war on immigration as a concept and a value, with a particularly intense and sadistic focus on asylum, taking a strong pro-immigrant stance was a no-brainer for Democrats across the country-many of whom took to the streets (and airports) to oppose to his acute depravity. ![]() It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of walling off the border, or that migrants were a destructive force, universally horrified Democrats. We are living in Stephen Miller’s world now. That news marked the official death of the pro-immigrant consensus that solidified in mainstream Democratic circles (and blue cities especially) during the Trump administration-and it made clear that although Trump lost in 2020, his immigration policies have won out. But the coup de grâce came from President Biden himself last week, with the announcement that his administration would be waiving over two dozen federal laws to pursue an expansion of the literal monument to Trump’s xenophobia: the border wall.
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