Title 42 was a Trump-era immigration policy enacted in March 2020 at the onset of the covid pandemic. It essentially enacted a near total ban on all migrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States under the guise of halting the spread of the disease. With the new authority to deny applications for asylum, border patrol agents turned away millions of migrants and sent them back to Mexico. Since taking office Biden has kept this policy in place. However, with his administration’s recent decision to end the covid-19 national emergency, Title 42 ended as well. Since then, the Biden administration had put into place new immigration polices that are just as cruel and ineffective as his predecessor’s. Now asylum seekers who first traveled into Mexico from another country will be denied on the basis that the United States was not their first point of contact and they did not apply for asylum in another country first. And even among those who are still granted asylum, their application can get stuck in a bureaucratic cesspool for years. There is also a continuing prejudice against those who are traveling alone. What I find interesting is how similar Biden’s immigration policies are to Trump’s. For all of his and Harris’ posturing about how different they are than Trump, their immigration policies are just as cruel, just as racist and just as ignorant as his. Considering the track record of both administrations, a long history of broken immigration policies in this country and the likelihood of a 2024 rematch, I don’t predict these policies becoming any more humane in the near future. I hope that I am wrong.