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Immigration
How Trump Will Build on Biden’s Border Policy
President Joe Biden’s immigration policy concerning the border is not so different from President-elect Donald Trump’s first-term
President Joe Biden and Democrats ran a relatively progressive platform in 2020. The message was heavily focused on racial and social justice issues — starkly contrasting what the former president offered. But that began to change almost immediately after the election. The party that ran on holding rogue cops accountable, handed law enforcement tens of billions of dollars (with no accountability measures) in response to far-right sloganeering saying Democrats wanted to defund the police.
The Democrat response was to “re-fund the police”.
The shift in border policy also contrasted greatly with campaign promises. Biden, who promised to protect asylum, again shifted his agenda to appease far-right lie-riddled narratives. In placating conservatives, he validated their beliefs and emboldened them to push harder with more falsehoods. The narratives became so disjointed that many conservatives continue to believe that as many as 20 million immigrants entered the country in just a few years.
