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Opinion: Is Biden about to close the border in the name of election year politics?

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Immigration law professor Karen Musalo in the Los Angeles Times (Opinion: Is Biden about to close the border in the name of election year politics?) powerfully calls on the President to avoid playing politics with migrant lives:

“Multiple news sources report that President Biden is considering implementing executive action to try to close the U.S.-Mexico border, including to asylum seekers. It would be an extreme move, and a violation of the Refugee Act of 1980 and the country’s international obligation to protect those fleeing persecution. Only one other president — Donald Trump — has blatantly breached that obligation before. With the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext, Trump invoked Title 42 of the U.S. Code, which allowed him to curb migration in the name of public health.”

KJ

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