San Antonio’s Mass Migrant Deaths Are a Logical Outcome of Joe Biden’s Anti-Immigrant Policies
The news of at least 53 deaths of migrants in San Antonio is heartbreaking — particularly because it is the inevitable result of the monstrous immigration policies that Joe Biden has done little to change.
Flowers and candles are placed in the area where an abandoned truck was found with fifty-three dead migrants in San Antonio, Texas, on June 28, 2022. (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The news out of San Antonio, Texas, is horrific. Fifty-three people, migrants from Mexico and Central America, were found dead in the back of a tractor trailer earlier this week. The men, women, and children died of heat stroke and exhaustion, abandoned without air conditioning or water in a Walmart parking lot in 100-degree heat.
Critics were right to reject the ludicrous accusations of Republican governor Greg Abbott, who blamed the phantom of Joe Biden’s nonexistent “open border policies” for the catastrophe. The Biden administration, in turn, was quick to attribute the incident to “smugglers or human traffickers.” But the responsibility for this horrific mass death lies squarely with all levels of the US government, which has continued to pursue a racialized immigration policy of mass exclusion and expulsion, regardless of the party in power.
“Do Not Come”
The Biden administration rode into office vowing to roll back Donald Trump’s notoriously cruel immigration policies. Instead, the humanitarian disaster at the US-Mexico border has only intensified and extended steadily southward.
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