Meanwhile, Trump last year invoked a 1944 law empowering the Surgeon General to bar the entry of migrants who could import a “communicable disease,” accelerating immediate deportations to fight the pandemic. In 2020, Kamala Harris criticized that step. The ACLU recently won a court order to stop it by the end of this month.

But in the meantime, Biden has kept deporting Haitians without a hearing. Are unvaccinated Haitians a greater public health threat than unvaccinated Hondurans? Nobody is bothering to say. It took until this week for Biden to lift a ban on travelers from Great Britain, one of the world’s most-vaccinated countries.

Adding to the incoherence, Biden in May cited unstable conditions in Haiti to order an 18-month temporary protected status for Haitians in the United States before July 29, so they are protected from deportation — but anybody arriving after that is not.