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Rachel Gore Freed

Rachel Gore Freed is the Vice President and Chief Program Officer for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.

A Honduran mother carries her son, 4, across the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a group of at least 25 asylum seekers who where were allowed to travel from a migrant camp in Mexico into the United States on February 25, 2021 in Matamoros, Mexico (John Moore/Getty Images)

Biden is letting tourists cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Why is he keeping out asylum seekers?

Rachel Gore Freed, Joshua Leach