When Biden was Vice President, they were giving each country $750 million per year to get asylum seekers to stay in their countries - and that's a continuity thread between the Trump administration and the Biden administration. They both do not want anyone from Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador to make it to the US border.

Immigration and policy scholar Karina Moreno on the neoliberal reforms of the United States Citizenship Act of 2021, the dynamics of US foreign policy, global capital and migration and her article Joe Biden’s Immigration Reform Doesn’t Do Enough to Help Migrant Workers for Jacobin.

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Karina Moreno

@KaryinBrooklyn

Karina Moreno is an assistant professor in LIU Brooklyn’s School of Business, Public Administration, and Information Sciences.

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Karina Moreno

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