Biden’s recent actions on immigration are a trap, and it appears the former president has taken the bait.
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But in unveiling a new policy that provides legal protections for undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens, the president is also trying to lure Donald Trump into a very specific debate.
Within the Biden team, advisers are betting that the new policy unveiled at the White House on Tuesday will reignite a larger discussion about one of the most contentious chapters of the Trump era: the separation of families at the southern border.
Biden knew he would be asked about immigration in the upcoming presidential debate, so instead of ceding the question to Trump and holding the debate on the former president’s terms, the president targeted the most unpopular of Trump’s immigration ideas. Welcome part.
President Biden will talk about the importance of keeping families together after Trump tore them apart. Trump wants to deport legal immigrants. Biden wants to secure the border while also reuniting families and preserving American values.
Biden’s latest immigration order fits the idea that Democrats are working to protect families while Republicans weigh aggressive measures such as attacks on same-sex rights and a ban on in vitro fertilization.
Trump treats immigrants as criminals.
Biden sees their humanity.
Joe Biden has taken Trump’s immigration conversation to places the felon ex-president doesn’t want to discuss it, and in the process, he could turn Trump’s pet issue into a weak point for the Republican Party.
