For that matter, look at the lines that mark the post-colonial map of Africa and the Middle East, charted in drawing rooms in London and Paris with scant concern for lived reality, the consequences of which have been disastrous. The desire of surveyors to impose rectilinearity was Utopian, a desire to bend reality onto the perfected map of imagination, where the ever-shifting curve of shoreline and river is no match for the infinite, idealized straight line of Euclidean space.
More radical is the far older perspective, which saw the world itself as a commonwealth, as a common treasury. In that golden age, it was nature that made the border, rather than people dreaming of a continent enclosed behind a wall.
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Sign up for our weekly newsletter. Politicians from Mr Biden's own Democratic Party have also spoken out against it. As mandated by US anti-trafficking laws, Mr Biden's administration has been transferring most immigrant minors to shelters overseen by the government. Children from Mexico, however, are still being repatriated, which has been criticised by Amnesty International and other organisations.
The administration had previously been criticised for placing migrant children in detention centres at times when shelter space was limited. In response to the influx of unaccompanied children, the administration reopened several previously shuttered detention centres. Activists - and some fellow Democrats - accused Mr Biden of repeating the policies of Mr Trump, who himself had also come under fire for the detention centres.
Mr Biden has also reversed a so-called "zero-tolerance" policy under the Trump administration that saw families divided by US authorities, in some cases with parents being deported back to their home countries without their children. According to a reunification task force set up by the Biden administration in January, 3, children had been separated from their families between and A September court filing from the Justice Department and American Civil Liberties Union said that authorities are still trying to reach the parents of children.
In August, the US Supreme Court ordered the president to revive it, rejecting a bid to block a Texas-based judge's ruling requiring it be brought back. DHS has appealed the decision.
On Wednesday, it said it would uphold the order "in good faith" but still plans to issue a new memorandum terminating MPP in the coming weeks. Separately, in late September, Texas' attorney general filed a lawsuit to try force it to be reinstated. About 70, migrants were enrolled in the programme since it was introduced in January Shortly after Mr Biden's inauguration, his administration began to gradually process these tens of thousands of people waiting in Mexico, allowing them into the US while their cases are heard.
So far about 13, people enrolled in MPP have been allowed to enter the country to await the outcome of their cases. On 27 September, the US State Department announced that the government plans to increase the number of refugees allowed into the US to , for the fiscal year that begins on 1 October. While still a candidate, Mr Biden had made a reform of Mr Trump's historically low refugee cap of 15, a major campaign promise. In April, however, many of Mr Biden's supporters expressed dismay after his administration announced initial plans to keep the 15, refugee cap in Following intense public backlash, Biden raised the number to 62, refugees.
About , refugees were admitted to the US in the last year of Barack Obama's final presidential term. Mr Biden also called for more refugees to come from Africa, the Middle East and Central America, and for an end to restrictions on resettlements from Somalia, Syria and Yemen. After coming into office vowing not to build "another foot" of Mr Trump's border wall, Mr Biden signed an order on his first day in office to pause all wall construction and to end the national emergency declaration on the southern border.
He later ordered that military funds Mr Trump had tapped for the project be re-allocated, leading to a Republican-requested inquiry into whether Mr Biden had inappropriately re-directed congressionally approved funds. Property owners near the border have complained that despite the pause, the government is still seeking to seize borderlands for future construction using a process known as eminent domain.
Dozens of eminent domain cases brought by the federal government remain open and could take years for the courts to decide. Some wall construction sites remain abruptly abandoned, with building materials strewn about, as construction had been ongoing right up until the moment of Mr Biden's order to halt.
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