A ‘brutal crosscurrent’: Why Biden’s immigration policies are making everyone mad
- In his first days in office, Biden sent Congress a sweeping immigration reform proposal.
- Immigration-rights advocates cheered the moves as the start of a new era after Trump’s policies.
- But some Trump policies remain, including Title 42, which makes it hard for migrants to seek asylum.
WASHINGTON – A year into his term, President Joe Biden is taking heat from all sides of the immigration debate.
Immigration advocates feel betrayed and frustrated, saying Biden has embraced or even augmented some of the Trump administration’s most extreme policies, despite promises to reverse his predecessor’s hardline approach to the issue.