Catherine Cortez Masto flip-flops on the border | VICTOR JOECKS | Las Vegas Review-Journal
In an attempt to save her seat, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is starting to sound like Donald Trump on immigration.
President Joe Biden is about to make the southern border crisis worse. Somehow, the pandemic is still bad enough to justify extending the worthless mask mandate on planes. There s also enough of a national emergency to continue the student loan moratorium, according to the White House.
But at the southern border, the coronavirus crisis has apparently ended. So the White House has announced it will end so-called Title 42, a public health precaution imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that allows the federal government to quickly expel most migrants based on the need to limit communicable diseases. The Trump administration imposed the restriction two years ago. Biden left it in place until now. Officials have used it more than 1.5 million times to expel migrants.
It s amazing how the contours of the emergency correspond with Biden s policy priorities. That s downright thoughtful of the virus.