Rachel Ida Buff is a writer and historian. She is currently working on a collection of historical essays, Thinking Like a Caravan, and a novel, Holy Toledo.
With its new immigration policy, the Biden administration isn’t even breaking from Trump-era anti-immigrant policies, much less charting a new, humane course for immigrants and refugees.
Without a change in US policy toward Guatemala and all of Central America, the thousands of asylum seekers fleeing violence and poverty will continue to come — no matter what Joe Biden or Kamala Harris say.