Trump Administration Uses Pandemic as Excuse to Expel Migrants

Expand Ruth Aracely Monroy helps her son, Carlos, with his jacket among tents set up inside a shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, March 5, 2019 © 2019 AP Photo/Gregory Bull This week, the Trump administration indefinitely extended an order that gives United States immigration agents the power to summarily expel migrants arriving at the US country’s borders under the pretext of preventing the spread of Covid-19. First issued on March 20, the order invokes public health to further an agenda of hostility to migrant children and their families. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents…

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