As the Biden-Harris administration seeks to strengthen security and reduce surges at the U.S.-Mexico border, advocates for Black migrants say some of the president’s new policies will add to what they argue are long-existing racial biases in the United States immigration system.
President Joe Biden made his first trip to the southern border in Texas on Sunday to assess border security in the region, then traveled to Mexico for a host of meetings this week. Biden’s trips to Texas and Mexico come days after announcing new sweeping border and immigration policy measures. One of those announced rules will expand the administration’s enforcement of Title 42, a Trump-era public health law enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic that has been long loathed by immigration advocates. Read more.
