
Dexter Filkins on the Dilemma at the Border
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Biden Administration's Current Parole Policies
When President Biden came into office, there was a kind of overriding sense of We have to reverse everything that Donald Trump did, and they did. That's what we've been seeing Basically over the last six months, which is Biden has been reversing course And becoming much tougher on immigration In fact, he's imposing programs and proposals that look remarkably like some of the ones that Donald Trump is doing For example, there's a rule called the transit ban, which basically means If you show up at the border and you ask for asylum, you have to prove that you've been rejected for asylum By another country That would disqualify a lot of migrants When Trump did that, people went insane But
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