Biden’s Cynical New Border Policy
Commentary
SAN ANTONIO, Texas—After refusing to do anything substantive about stopping the flood of migrants entering the country illegally, President Biden has acted, sort of. Only a cynic would say his order to deport certain Venezuelans, but not migrants from 40 other nations, is timed to influence the November election.
Call me a cynic.
The administration plans to invoke Title 42, a rule created during the Trump administration and one Biden denounced for inflicting “cruelty and exclusion” on those fleeing the government of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. The new/old policy is intended to block single adult male Venezuelans from entering when they claim asylum….