How Biden’s Promises to Reverse Trump’s Immigration Policies Crumbled
Posted on AllSides October 7th, 2023
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Doug Mills/The New York
ANALYSIS
Immigration was dead simple when Joseph R. Biden Jr. was campaigning for president: It was an easy way to attack Donald J. Trump as a racist, and it helped to rally Democrats with the promise of a more humane border policy.
Nothing worked better than Mr. Trump’s “big, beautiful wall” that he was building along the southern border. Its existence was as much a metaphor for the polarization inside America as it was a largely ineffective barrier against foreigners fleeing to the United States from Central America.
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