Expectations are running high that the Biden administration will roll back Title 42, the Trump-era policy that allows for the rapid expulsion of migrants at the border without giving them the chance to seek asylum.
Fact Check: Charles Curtis, Not Deb Haaland, Was First Native American Cabinet Member
CLAIM: Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) would be the “first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary.”
VERDICT: MOSTLY TRUE. The first Native American member of the Cabinet though not a “secretary” was Republican Vice President Charles Curtis.
President-elect Joe Biden announced Thursday that Haaland would be his pick for Secretary of the Interior.
Axios reported: “Haaland, 60, would be the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary, leading the department that oversees the federal government’s relationship with 567 federally recognized tribes and 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives.”