During his presidential campaign, U.S. President Joe Biden promised to end cruel Trump-era immigration policies and honor U.S. legal and moral responsibilities to protect refugees. But he has failed to end a policy of mandatory expulsion that seals the border under the pretext of public health. This policy turns away asylum-seekers and separates children from their parents, relegating even the youngest children to the horrors of facing detention alone. Adult asylum-seekers and families are precluded from asserting their claims for protection and are instead forced to remain in Mexico in squalid and dangerous border towns.
