Recent polls show that immigration is a key issue for voters in this election. The immigration policies and rhetoric on immigrants of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump remain very different.
Here’s what you need to know:
About rhetoric: Trump often demonizes migrants and asylum seekers. He has said they are a criminal class or part of a coordinated invasion of the US, although there is no evidence to support these claims. However, even as Biden adopted Trump’s policy of limiting the passage of asylum seekers, the Democrat promised not to adopt Trump’s rhetoric.
“I will never refer to immigrants as something that poisons the blood of a country,” Biden said at the White House.
Biden promises empathy. Trump promises mass deportation.
Biden’s recent executive order on protections for eligible spouses and children offers a stark contrast to Trump, who has vowed to deport millions if elected to a second term. At the White House, Biden argued that Trump’s deportation policy would “rip spouses and children from their families, homes and communities and place them in detention camps.”
Biden’s pivot to the middle: Trump has promised a militaristic approach to the border and a massive deportation program if he is elected in November.
Source: CNN Brasil
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