Ayala: Either way you look at Biden’s plan, it’s about discouraging asylum-seeking migrants
Migrants look for donated clothing outside of Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. President Joe Biden on Sunday, Jan.8, 2022, made his first visit to the border since taking office; a surge of migration has made El Paso one of the most vivid symbols of the decades-long breakdown in America’s immigration system. SAN ANTONIO — President Joe Biden visited the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday for the first time since becoming president.
They took to social media to describe Biden’s visit as a photo opportunity rather than substantive border assessment. The characterization of Biden’s visit as a photo op was projection, that psychological process of displacing one’s own feelings or behavior onto another — because no political animal does border photo ops like a Republican.Think former Vice President Mike Pence desperately trying to ignore the stench of human bodies crowded into a makeshift border detention center.
Former President Barack Obama was aptly called “deporter in chief,” and his administration — like others before and since — never persuaded Congress to give immigration laws the overhaul they need.President Biden toured the border after major policy announcements ahead of his trip to Mexico City for a summit with leaders of Mexico and Canada.
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