The Biden administration’s condemnation of its Border Patrol Agents’ spectacularly racist whipping, with horse reins, of Haitians walking up the riverbank, while tripling down on the less spectacular but equally racist and illegal expulsions of Haitian asylum seekers under the pretext of fighting COVID-19, shows a troubling disconnect between the administration’s professed ideals and its practices.Even worse, the administration is abandoning its principles – and its friends – in a doomed effort to placate extremist voices.The expulsions use Title 42 of the US Code, which authorises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to control entry to the United States in order to protect against communicable disease. Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller developed the policy as part of his efforts to limit immigration through any available tool. Public health was a pretext; Miller first tried – unsuccessfully – to invoke Title 42 for mumps and the flu. COVID-19 provided the hook he needed.
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