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Congress Can’t Even Do This One Thing

Caitlin Dickerson · 27 Oct 2022

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    Congress has failed to fulfill its duties on immigration and family separation.

    Their wordsTo say that Congress has failed to fulfill its duties when it comes to addressing immigration in general, and family separation specifically, is a profound understatement.

  2. Our reading

    The US cannot simply enforce its way to a closed border.

    Their wordsLately, moderate Democrats have actually been arguing quietly for the Biden administration to keep in place Trump-era restrictions on asylum that are based on the mistaken theory that we can simply enforce our way to a closed border.

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