https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/biden-goes-full-trump-a6b5c9b0e956
"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.
Empowered by Clinton’s Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility
Act, former president Bush made migrating to the US a national security issue
using terrorism as a fear tactic in the wake of 9/11. After the Bush
administration created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the
inevitable afterbirth of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) became a
weapon to militarize immigration enforcement — disproportionately targeting
non-white migrants already in the US. Then, in May 2006, former president Bush
took it a step further and called for 6,000 National Guard troops to be
deployed at the US-Mexico border after immigration reform efforts stalled in
Congress.
Building on decades of history and despite court orders and decisions made
throughout the years, every administration seems intent on trying to test the
level of inhumanity used against non-white migrants arriving at the US southern
border. Many policies former President Trump tried to enforce had previously
been shot down by federal courts under prior administrations. Similarly, the
Biden administration continues trying to manipulate the policies by
implementing Trump-era ideas with minor changes. The White House intends to
prove that slight differences in its policies will appease federal judges’
complaints against previous actions. With a stable of staffers boasting
political clout and knowledge of how to execute policies that circumvent US and
international laws, the Biden administration might just pull it off.
The backstop for the incremental inhumanity towards migrant families from the
southern hemisphere seems to be that children can’t be held for more than a few
days. This is what led to sporadic family separations during the Obama era and
later exploded under Trump. But Biden has Susan Rice, who worked for the Obama
administration, and Jake Sullivan who operates in the same vein as the
well-known bigot and Trump staffer, Stephen Miller. Sullivan is smarter than
Miller and Rice is a power player with massive influence in Washington. Known
to suggest and enforce aggressive and inhumane actions against non-white
migrants, like the Trump administration, they justify these approaches by
arguing that they’re using them as deterrents for future asylum-seekers. A
supposed warning for them not to come because they’ll be treated badly even
though seeking asylum after entering the US is a legal act."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
