The Logical Outcome of Biden's Anti-Immigrant Policies

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.

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