How Biden Can Still Protect Migrants From Trump

A list of 22 policy changes the White House can make to protect migrants before January 6.

WASHINGTON – Eight weeks from today, Donald Trump will return to the Oval Office with a broad mandate to conduct mass deportations. Yesterday we scooped that White House senior advisors Blas Nuñez-Neto and Liz Sherwood Randall are inexplicably pushing for another asylum ban. Within hours of our story, Trump announced that his former interim ICE director Tom Homan will be appointed as his new “border czar” — a ambiguous role overseeing the immigration enforcement portfolio. As recently as October 27, Homan told Cecilia Vega on 60 Minutes that he plans to deport entire families together, including the U.S. children of migrant parents.

Rather than take the policy sea change lying down, migrant rights advocates are working overtime to push Joe Biden to do what he can to protect migrant families during the final days of his presidency. Migrant Insider obtained a list of twenty-two policy recommendations being circulated by advocates in the Biden White House orbit that could insulate people …