Masking Immigration Realities on Purpose
By David North on April 15, 2021
We are still in the first four months of the Biden administration, and it is making clever and detailed immigration policy moves, much as the the Trump administration tried to do in its last four months. The Biden actions are not commendable, but they are skillful and early-on.
This is largely because Biden believes in government and believes in fully staffing it with his own people, as the Trump administration did not, at least initially. The new administration has a ready pool of immigration policy types largely left over from the Obama years, and/or recruited from non-governmental organizations that advocate for looser border controls.
I call many of these moves “policy masks†because they are clever ways of stopping conversations about policy matters by hiding what is going on. Here are some examples:
https://cis.org/North/Masking-Immigration-Realities-Purpose
