Border Policies Set Stage for Future Crackdowns

November 20, 2024

Stephanie Leutert, Director of the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative, was recently quoted in The New York Times on “Biden’s Policies Offer a Starting Point for Trump’s Border Crackdown.”

“All of the Biden administration restrictions give them a starting point far beyond what they had in 2016,” said Leutert.

Read the article in its entirety here.

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