Branko Marcetic, a staff writer for the liberal magazine Jacobin, told Hill.TV that former President Trump’s “war on asylum” has “continued tacitly” under the Biden administration.
Marcetic described how a statute known as Title 42, which allows the government to immediately expel immigrants crossing the border illegally because of the COVID-19 pandemic, has been utilized by President Biden after it was first implemented by the Trump administration.
“I think [the Biden] administration has found it a very convenient rule. Even though there isn’t much of a public health justification for it, at the end of the day, it does provide an easy way to just shut people out,” said Marcetic, author of “Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden.”
Marcetic also criticized the Biden administration’s Northern Triangle policy, which he says is “incentivizing some of these countries to brutally crackdown on migrants to stop them from coming to the U.S. border.” The policy aims to address the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Biden “fears some sort of backlash” on immigration issues, Marcetic argued, pointing to the White House’s waffling on the refugee cap for 2021.
hilltv copyright
