Five years ago, while campaigning for president, Harris advocated for dropping those charges altogether.
In return, the U.S. would provide financial aid and surveillance equipment.
That same week, while visiting the border, Harris promised further restrictions.
Vice President Kamala Harris talks with Border Patrol agents as she visits the border with Mexico in Douglas, Ariz., on Sept. 27, 2024.Carolyn Kaster’AP
Jamie Rodriguez, a mother of three young children fromVenezuela, is just now contending with these new rules.
She and her family have traveled for six months and have run out of money at every turn.
Still, Rodriguez has not let her mind fully contend with the reality of her situation just yet.
I dont know, she says, her voice suddenly small and distant.
Whats happening is theyre not letting us, theyre not letting us.
She sits on her jacket on the ground, awaiting her fate.
The agenda further calls for Congress to strengthen requirements for valid asylum claims.
He asserted they are destroying all of our medical programs.
His running mate, J.D.
Vance, has similarlyclaimedthat immigrants are bankrupting rural hospitals.
None of this is true.
The lives of people seeking asylum are not a priority.
Democrats shift in rhetoric mirrors their policies, Isacson says, which have increasingly abandoned asylum-seekers to Mexicos jurisdiction.
He [Biden] didnt think to defend the idea of immigration, Isacson said.
Since the asylum ban was enacted in June, migrant encounters at the border havedropped by half.
Isacson is not the only one to suggest Democrats have folded their cards.
For immigration analysts, this moment marked a turning point in an ongoing sea change.
But the border is not the only place migrants are detained.
This is not accidental.
Jadwat calls Biden administration policy on immigration a significant and disappointing reversal.
Harris also supports supplementing the ranks of the Border Patrol, in an attempt to control fentanyl trafficking.
If Trump wins, we might lose our funding altogether, he said.
