Biden's Moral Compass: Deporting Families, Not Denouncing Genocide
The Independent reports Border Patrol agents under the Trump administration's directive targeted Charlotte churchgoers, arresting dozens in front of children. This aggressive 'anti-immigration surge' (as the outlet calls it) wasn't some historical anomaly; these tactics became normalized, then were seamlessly continued, if not expanded, by the Biden administration. The language used, 'surge,'
implies a sudden, necessary response, rather than a decades-long policy of dehumanizing economic migrants and asylum seekers, often fleeing conditions exacerbated by US foreign policy. One might wonder where this level of targeted intensity is when it comes to holding foreign governments, which receive billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars, accountable for documented human rights abuses. The moral
calculus appears simple: a family seeking refuge at a church merits aggressive federal intervention, but industrial-scale civilian casualties, say, in Gaza, are merely 'something we are going to continue to work on' as Secretary Blinken recently stated. (Blinken, 2024, State.gov). Clearly, some human crises are more enforceable than others.