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Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Too (theintercept.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/politics@beehaw.org

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[–] millie@beehaw.org 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Intercept really needs a new editor.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Because you don't like the truth?

“I think it’s so important to understand how immigration enforcement has been a pillar of the Democratic party’s governance for three decades,” activist and scholar of border imperialism Harsha Walia told Intercepted podcast in February 2021, when it was already becoming clear that Biden’s tenure would hardly see the undoing of the border regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsha_Walia

Harsha Walia is a Canadian activist and writer based in Vancouver. She has been involved with No one is illegal, the February 14 Women's Memorial March Committee, the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, and several Downtown Eastside housing justice coalitions. Walia has been active in immigration politics, Indigenous rights, feminist, anti-racist, anti-statist, and anti-capitalist movements for over a decade.

Walia is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021), co-author of Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration (2015), and Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2019). She has also contributed to over thirty academic journals, anthologies, magazines, and newspapers.

I feel this person knows what she is talking about.

[–] millie@beehaw.org 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No, because they mixed up "parties'" and "party's" and didn't catch it, along with a couple of other weird writing quirks and clunky usages. Also it's a pretty messy headline. There's also a lot more descriptive and poetic language than is actually helpful for getting their point across. Like to the point that it's wandering into New York Times levels of fluffing the length with flowery language. The writer could have used a couple of notes that they clearly didn't get.

I agree with the writer's position on the DNC's failure to find their compassion and humanity on immigration. It's the editing that needs work.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Apologies, I am just very used to seeing knee-jerk reactions denying Biden's culpability for his actions, and clearly I've developed some knee-jerk reactions of my own that I need to work on.