BIDEN PIVOTS TO THE MIDDLE

In December 2021, RAICES attorney Javier Hidalgo again warned of a potential Biden flip-flop down the road. “Anyone seeing this news and claiming the Biden Administration has ‘ended family detention’ at this point is enabling dangerous propaganda,” Hidalgo said. “We would love to see and celebrate the end of family detention, but unfortunately, this is not it. While currently there are no migrant families in detention centers, President Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas have made no official policy changes in regards to family detention or the Karnes and Dilley family prisons. That means DHS can bring families back into these facilities at any point, as they have done before.” But as with many public-policy problems, the issue of how to handle migrant families attempting to illegally cross the U.S.–Mexican border looked easier on the campaign trail than it does in the Oval Office.

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