A Path to Nowhere
Biden’s proposal for immigration reform isn’t designed to free migrants trapped in danger or detention. It’s not even designed to pass.
Justin Akers Chacón is a professor of US history and Chicano studies in San Diego, California. He is the coauthor with Mike Davis of No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence at the U.S.–Mexico Border and author of Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class as well as the forthcoming The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border from Haymarket Books.

Biden’s proposal for immigration reform isn’t designed to free migrants trapped in danger or detention. It’s not even designed to pass.
