4/7/22

By Josh Rubin

Majorkas has instructed the people who encounter migrants seeking asylum at our southern border that they are to use discretion when they decide whether to use the machinery for immediate expulsion under Title 42, the policy that pretends to be a health order, but is actually a blunt instrument for bypassing actual immigration laws.

Discretion.

Here’s what that actually means. It means that they should let Ukrainians into the country, but that they should continue to expel peoples from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. That’s not the part they say out loud, of course. But what is actually happening is screaming it from the rooftops. The numbers speak the truth.

Discretion. Racism by another name.