What is ironic is AOC endorsed Bernie—whose immigration policy is actually is far right of Biden and Harris. Up til 2016, Bernie consistently claimed that we would have to close our borders to increase wages and maligned migrants as “those people” coming here to take “our jobs.”
Bernie began softening some of his racist anti-immigrant rhetoric in 2016 to become more palatable to the far left but he still maintained in 2020 that we needed to build more migrant holding facilities on the border and hold people there long term rather than “catch and release”
How it was for most asylum seekers under President Obama is you would be temporarily held, processed, given notice for an immigration court hearing, and then released into the US. Bernie didn’t like that. His plan was to hold everyone in internment for the months/years
Now under Biden and Harris, the plan is to make it easier for folks to apply for asylum in their home countries without having to make the expensive/dangerous trek to the border. That’s what immigrant rights activists have wanted for years! This is a GOOD thing. AOC is lying. 
More receipts: vox.com/2016/2/12/1098…
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