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DonViejo

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Sat Apr 3, 2021, 09:03 AM Apr 2021

Biden bets that he can change how America thinks about migration


The president is facing a political pinch over the border. His solution for it: more nuance.

By LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ, SARAH FERRIS and CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO

04/03/2021 07:00 AM EDT

Under growing political pressure over an increase in migrant children and crowding at the southern border, the Biden administration is betting big on nuance.

They don’t just want to push back on their critics, they want to change the very way Americans view migration.

President Joe Biden and his aides have stepped up their Hill outreach in recent weeks, racing to unite Democrats behind a new message on immigration policy and why the current situation is decades in the making. It won’t be easy. Democrats are aiming to explain away one of Washington’s most complicated and fraught issues, telling a far more complicated story than the simple one Republicans have hammered home on cable news.

In calls with House lawmakers this week, Biden administration officials repeatedly stressed that they inherited a disaster from the Trump administration, and said that the solutions would not be painless or quick. In a separate call with Democratic communications aides on the Hill, White House officials reiterated that the “real crisis is in Central America,” according to several people on the call. Biden and his team are emphasizing the “root causes” of migration surges, and their renewed diplomatic efforts with Central American countries, which lapsed under the Trump administration.

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Biden bets that he can change how America thinks about migration (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2021 OP
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