[See NewsBusters for more.] The Biden Administration is considering ending Trump-era COVID Title 42 policies that make it easier to deport migrants who show up at the southern border. In the meantime, exemptions are open to Ukrainians which led MSNBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart and Allen Orr of the American Immigration Lawyers Association to cry racism on the former’s Thursday show.
After highlighting the plight of one Cuban family, Diaz-Balart found one COVID-related measure MSNBC could oppose, “Yeah, I mean, Allen, the fact is that if, for example, the justification for Title 42 was, you know, COVID and the COVID pandemic, then COVID affects everybody equally, it doesn't matter where you're from, the color of your skin, your age, right? So—so--to say well, we're going to make exceptions on a case-by-case for this group, but not for others it does seem to show that really isn’t necessarily all about the science.”