On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss President Biden's shift to the right on immigration.
Mother Jones reporter Isabela Dias writes: In 2020, Joe Biden campaigned on the idea that Trump-era immigration policies amounted to "a moral failure and a national shame." Now, he is backing a border deal that is so aligned with conservative goals that it causes glee from Senator John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota who gushed: “[W]e would never get [these measures] in a Republican Senate, even with a Republican president.”
Earlier this week, Senate Republicans voted down the bipartisan $118 billion immigration and foreign aid bill. Immigration advocates call the bill's concessions unconscionable. What explains this and what does this mean for immigrants?
Guest:
Isabela Dias, reporter at Mother Jones covering politics and immigration
Resources:
Mother Jones: Is This the End of Biden’s “Moral Leadership” on Immigration?
