Biden Is Still Turning Away Migrants at the Border

Trump-era Covid-19 border policies are being carried over to the new administration

Gaby Del Valle
GEN
Published in
6 min readMar 15, 2021

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A migrant demonstration demanding clearer U.S. policies in Tijuana, Mexico. Photo: Guillermo Arias/Getty Images

For weeks, pundits, conservative politicians, and anonymous Border Patrol sources have been warning of a crisis brewing at the U.S.-Mexico border. They claim there’s a “surge” in migrant families and unaccompanied children arriving at the…

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Gaby Del Valle
GEN
Writer for

Gaby Del Valle is a freelance writer who lives in Brooklyn. She is the co-founder of BORDER/LINES, a weekly newsletter about immigration policy. @gabydvj