The administration has co-signed a right-wing agenda that promotes fear and demonizes migrants

Washington, DC – Yesterday, President Biden announced several new restrictive immigration policies that further undermine the asylum process, expand inhumane Title 42 expulsions, and increase the use of expedited removal. In response, Setareh Ghandehari, Advocacy Director of Detention Watch Network, issued the following statement: “Biden’s new immigration enforcement policies continue a failed decades-long deterrence strategy and are a page from the same xenophobic, anti-immigrant playbook as the previous administration.