Is Biden using migrants as political pawns — in a game of checkers?
Jun 19, 2024, 2:00 PM | Updated: 6:32 pm
BY JIM SHARPE
KTAR.com
No matter the positive effects it may have on your friends, your family or even you — one has to admit that Democratic President Joe Biden was politically motivated to do what he did this week: announce executive actions that’ll give legal status and provide protection from deportation to hundreds of thousands of undocumented spouses of US citizens (and their children) — allowing them to apply for lawful permanent residency.
These moves by Biden will also provide a faster path for DACA recipients (undocumented migrants brought to the US as children) to obtain a work visa.
Now, you knew that Republicans like my friend, Arizona political consultant Stan Barnes, were gonna say Biden’s move was political. But others are too.
Stan says it was a political move that was “too little, too late:” A Real Clear Politics average of polls has former President Donald Trump ahead of Biden in Arizona by about 4.5%.
https://ktar.com/story/5577477/is-biden-using-migrants-as-political-pawns-in-a-game-of-checkers/
