Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley, of Massachusetts, called the Border Patrol “egregious and white supremacist.” Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said it was “worse than what we witnessed in slavery.”
resigned in protest
For some, like Frank Sharry, the longtime head of the immigration advocacy group America's Voice, it’s all too familiar to see a Democrat have their dreams — and backbone — crushed by a media firestorm over an immigration flashpoint. But since then, Biden has faced one challenge after another, from the pandemic to the pullout of Afghanistan, with his poll numbers declining along with the prospects for his domestic legislative agenda on Capitol Hill, leaving little political capital left for a fight on one of the most divisive issues in the country.
Immigration advocates blast Biden for using a public health order to turn away migrants in the name of containing Covid-19;why migrants don’t have to show proof of vaccination like diners at New York City restaurants do. Courts have blocked efforts to use executive authority in ways that would allow Biden to circumvent Congress, as Obama did with his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which wasAnd Biden inherited a bureaucracy gutted and rebuilt by Trump and his former aides like immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller, who sought to change both the policies and culture of the agencies that now report to Biden, still just about eight months into his term.
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