‘We See a Capitulation to Cruel Policies’: Maribel Hernandez Rivera on Biden’s Border Deal

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RAMOS: “Maribel, I’m going to start with you. I think even starting with this idea of how Biden, what his narrative was, a couple of years ago, when he was talking about restoring our moral standing in the world, and talking about our historic role as a safe haven for refugees and asylum seekers. How did he go from that to now, this narrative about promising to shut down the border? What is your take?”
RIVERA: “First, Paola, thank you for having me. I have to tell you that it has been very disappointing to see the administration, to see this border deal which was the cruelest deal ever where you have people who are going to be expelled without due process, where you have the highest levels of detention ever in the United States and that wouldn’t not of only affected people coming at the border, but also people inside the United States. So yes, we see a capitulation to the far-right, we see a capitulation to cruel policies, policies that don’t work, policies that don’t stop people from coming, but what they do is they put vulnerable people in danger. So, this is an opportunity for the administration, for Congress, to do the right thing, to really think about what are the real solutions that we need, and that cruel border policy that was proposed was not it.”