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The rhetoric about asylum seekers may have changed under Biden, but the policies leading to separations, not so much.

6 May 2021 President Joe Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, is using the little-known “parole” side door in border law to bring legally deported migrants back for televised reunions with their left-behind, asylum-seeking children. “Our highest priority is to reunite these families … It’s not about righting the wrong of the past, it’s about restoring the conscience of our government,” Mayorkas said he touted his return of four deported migrants in a May 4 appearance on MSNBC. The parole side-door “is a very limited authority that Congress has given for exceptional sit...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate This week, four parents from Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico were reunited with their children in the United States after being separated under former President Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. They were the first families to be reunited on U.S. soil since the Biden administration began its reunification process. “Although we love to see the reunifications and they’re very moving, we have to keep in mind what led to that and that it should never have happened in the first place,” says Carol Anne Donohoe, ma...

Updated: 10:05 PM CDT May 5, 2021 By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Bryan Chávez carried a bundle of Mother's Day balloons as he headed toward the border.It had been more than three years since the last time he saw his mom in person — the day when authorities separated them in 2017. Chávez was 15 at the time, and he feared this moment would never come. Even after he recently learned they'd finally be reunited, he couldn't believe it."I was like... am I actually going to see her today or not?" Chavez said. "Because you never know. I was just in the car and I was just thinking, ...

Sources say letting Greene keep committee assignments while ousting Cheney from leadership would have looked bad.