President Joe Biden took office pledging to reverse the last administration's xenophobic approach to the border. One of his first acts was allowing unaccompanied children to once again seek asylum within the United States.
Migrants from Central America us mobile phones to try to register to request asylum in the US, at Pan de Vida shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, February 19, 2021.The Biden administration has extended a Trump-era policy that effectively closes the border.Public health and legal experts have challenged the order. The ACLU is suing.President Joe Biden took office pledging to reverse the last administration's xenophobic approach to the border.
When Title 42 was pushed by the Trump administration, it was seen by many as an immigration restriction, first, with a health justification. And so many people are surprised to see that the Biden administration has extended it with the same rationale. What do you make of that, as a public health expert. Because there are migrants that have COVID and there are a lot of politicians around the border who are, I think, grandstanding about positive migrant cases contributing to the current spike.
It's great that unaccompanied minors are no longer being turned back, as they were under the previous administration, but it's unacceptable that families could be separated - that people are still being sent back to situations where they're really at risk. We know the other side of the US-Mexico border. It's a very dangerous area. There's no dispute about that. The administration doesn't challenge that.
I think that there certainly is dramatic underfunding of federal resources to manage the border. And this is a historic problem, which was aggravated in the previous administration. There's a long legacy of underfunding; of far too few asylum officers; inadequate funding of facilities; inadequate funding for shelter. That's not easy to correct overnight.
I think it's fine to talk about root causes, as Kamala Harris and others have done, and taking steps to increase safety and security as much as possible in Central America - to increase access to employment, to increase schooling and healthcare and all that sort of social infrastructure. Of course, that's going to contribute, but these are not things that change overnight.
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