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Pedro Camacho

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights claims to be "profoundly disappointed" by Biden's border plans

Migrants crossing the US-Mexico border (Credit: GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA via AFP)

As President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive action that will mark the most aggressive plan to crackdown immigration through the southern border and Texas border mayors travel to DC to show their support, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK) has released a statement against the current administration's immigration plans. The statement, available on the organization's website, begins as follows:

"Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is profoundly disappointed by the Biden administration's plans to increase federal criminal prosecutions of migrants accused of nothing more than crossing a border. Decades of data on prosecutions for border crossing make it clear: mass incarceration does not deter people fleeing persecution"

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