6/13/22

By Josh Rubin

The mask is off.

Our government has been pretending that the reason we are enforcing a public health provision with Title 42, expelling asylum seekers without due process because we are afraid that these people are bringing COVID across our borders. We have always known this was a brutal, illegal anti-immigrant policy hiding behind an excuse, using American’s fears of the disease to play to our most ungenerous instincts.

But now, the government has announced that international travelers to our country don’t even have to take a rapid COVID test. So, the pretense is gone. Maybe they hope that people believe that poor folks who need our help are more likely to carry the virus. But it isn’t true. It never was true.

So, the mask is off. Let’s look at the face of cruelty.