Activists Walk Out on Meeting With Biden Admin Over Remain in Mexico Program
October 18, 2021 | District of Columbia
Dozens of immigration activists allegedly walked out of a virtual meeting with Biden administration officials on Saturday morning in protest over the White House’s plan to restart the Trump era “Remain in Mexico” program, Politico reports.
The advocates read a statement accusing the administration of “playing politics with human lives” ahead of a virtual meeting with multiple officials, including people from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the White House Domestic Policy Council’s Esther Olavarria.
Activists allegedly said they could no longer “come into these conversations in good conscience.”
“We have sadly reached a turning point,” they said, before most of them exited the video meeting, Politico reported.
“I cannot stand one more meeting of them pretending,” Ariana Saludares, a 40-year old advocate from the New Mexico-based Colores United, told Politico. “They give us accolades on the outside, but on the inside, we’re having to take out the metaphoric knives from our back,” she said…. (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
