It's good that @MichelleObama noted the impact of ZTP, but the public discourse around the admin's border policy needs to catch up with its evolution since June 2018. Here's every policy that I've written about at @BPC_Bipartisan so folks at home can keep track of these changes
Let's start with my September 2019 overview of what the Trump admin had implemented through that month since the end of ZTP. This included MPP, the Asylum Bans, and Metering, and ending Flores bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/the-trump…
But MPP merited a much deeper dive, so I decided to look at publicly available data - including ones from @TRACReports who has been invaluable here - to see how the program expanded significantly in 2019 bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/the-end-o…
The Administration also signed the ACAs with Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Here's my analysis of why the Guatemalan ACA marked the arrival of a new asylum agreement model - the unilateral transfer model - and why it aligned with the admin's goals bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/the-excep…
More recently I wrote about the Title 42 program that expels migrants under the auspices of CDC authority and the way it has emerged as the administration's key tool to remove migrants at the border. This also includes data on ACA removals bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/how-the-t…
My colleague @rachiacono just wrote about the proposed rule that would ban asylum to individuals arriving from countries with outbreaks bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/proposed-…
And while I didn't write about PACR and HARP, @Tanvim did some fantastic reporting about the existence of these programs that the administration used extensively before Title 42 rollcall.com/2020/02/26/dhs…
Finally, I should also give a shoutout to @jessicabolter for writing this piece that summarizes these measures in this @MigrationPolicy February 2020 blog post migrationpolicy.org/article/interl…
Of course, that's not the end of what the admin has proposed. The administration has also proposed regulations that would limit asylum at the border. Here's a good summary from @NatImmForum immigrationforum.org/article/the-tr…
So as you can see, a lot has happened in the span of two years. Again, it's good Michelle mentioned ZTP but I think the discourse needs to play catch up with the realities at the border and the policies that the admin has in place to deter the arrival of migrants
