AN ANALYSIS OF
BIDEN’S PLAN FOR
CENTRAL AMERICA

Voters in the United States have elected Joe Biden as their president after a contentious race during which volunteer poll workers and vote defenders across the United States showed up en masse to protect communities’ right to vote. 

For many, his victory represents a sign of hope in repairing the damage the past four years have inflicted upon vulnerable communities nationally and abroad. However, for communities experiencing displacement, migrants and their families, and the broader migrant justice movement, the sigh of relief is limited.

Biden’s Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants opens with the one-sentence acknowledgment of a horrendous tragedy—one that occurs daily on the US-Mexico border, but is rarely captured or denounced in mainstream US media—the death of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his almost-two-year-old daughter, Valeria. 

Both were found lying dead along the Río Grande as they attempted to cross the border from Mexico to the United States. The document proceeds to rightfully condemn the Trump administration’s “cruel and senseless policies,” which have resulted in the dehumanization and deaths of many.