Biden Plans to Intensify Repression of Immigrants Along U.S.-Mexico Border

January 9, 2023

Immigrants at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico border with El Paso Texas

Migrants in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico seeking asylum status wait to cross into the U.S. at El Paso, Texas, December 20, 2022. Photo: AP/Christian Chavez

On Thursday this past week, Joe Biden announced changes in U.S. immigration policy aimed at “dramatically increas[ing] expulsions” of migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. border with Mexico, according to one news account. The U.S. has “expelled” about 2.5 million migrants, most of them under Biden, using a mechanism called Title 42. “Dramatically increasing” that number will be a horrifying escalation of repression, and will wreak havoc upon the lives of a huge amount of people. (See articles from last week’s Revolution here and here for more on the “border crisis.”)

On Sunday, Biden went to El Paso, Texas, a focal point of the intensifying conflict along the border, and he is scheduled to go to Mexico City early this week to meet with Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. A Biden spokesperson said migration will be “right at the top of the issues they will discuss.” Revolution will cover these developments, including the full scope of Biden’s announced plan, and will have a report on this site later in the week.

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