Haitians are Not His Kind of Blacks: Black Lives Matter to Biden So Long as They Can Vote and Refugees are Prohibited from Voting. Blight House Softens Guidelines but Resumes Non-White Deportations

From [HERE] and [HERE] The Biden administration’s struggles with immigration continued this week as its efforts to continue expelling asylum-seeking families overshadowed its announcement that most undocumented people in the U.S. will not be targeted for deportation.

President Joe Biden took office promising to build a “fair and humane” immigration system and restore America’s reputation as a welcoming place for refugees and asylum applicants, which he said had been tarnished by the hardline tactics of his predecessor Donald Trump.

Republicans claim Biden has caused a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border by rolling out a welcome mat for all immigrants, but many are being removed as quickly as they arrive.

The administration is still enforcing a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pandemic-related order known as Title 42, implemented last year by Trump, under which most immigrants are removed from U.S. soil without a chance to apply for asylum.

The government has used Title 42 as grounds to boot more than 937,000 people since October 2020, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

That number has grown significantly in the past two weeks as the Biden administration sent more than 50 planeloads of Haitians — about 5,000 in all — back to their home country, said Nina Raoul, co-founder of the New York-based aid group Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, on a press call Friday.

A federal judge recently ordered Homeland Security to stop Title 42 expulsions of immigrant families. Before that injunction took effect, DHS obtained a stay order Thursday from the D.C. Circuit of Appeals.

The move was widely condemned by immigrant advocates.

“The administration chose to further promulgate the Trump administration’s racist and xenophobic policies by appealing the case and then proceeding to expel thousands of Haitians from Del Rio, Texas,” said Tami Goodlette, director of litigation for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services.

“The Biden administration has lost its way and needs to remember its promises from the election,” she continued.

E.L. is one of thousands of Haitians who crossed the Rio Grande into Del Rio last month and gathered under a bridge connecting the U.S. and Mexico in hopes of applying for asylum.

Speaking through an interpreter on the press call Friday, E.L., identified only by her initials, said she arrived there with her children. They endured frigid nights with no blankets to cover them as they slept in the open atop a sheet.

DHS officials said they provided food, water and medical aid to the group. But E.L. noted she saw men who crossed back into Mexico to buy food for their wives and children were blocked from returning by lariat-wielding Border Patrol agents on horses.

DHS opened an investigation after photos and videos of the agents went viral and is expected to release its findings next week.