Bad Laws — Not Trump — Are Driving the Biden Border Crisis
The president should take a lesson from the Obama administration
By Andrew R. Arthur on April 1, 2021
The Southwest border is in bad shape, as a March 29 Wall Street Journal opinion piece makes clear. But the Biden administration seems clueless as to why there is a crisis there. Blaming the Trump administration, as it has done reflexively, is just an excuse. The president never even mentions the loopholes that are encouraging illegal migrants, which are the real reasons many if not most are coming.
As an immigration judge, I learned the hardest thing for a person to do is to walk away from a bad situation. Be it a toxic relationship, bad associates, or drug addiction, people fear the unknown even when the known is a death spiral. And the situation at the border is very bad, indeed.
Case in point: The Journal’s depiction of a single incident on the Rio Grande reads like Dante’s Inferno.
A Honduran woman who had her leg broken by a smuggler paid the smuggler’s $3,500 fee to get on one of several rafts that included 65 adults and 152 children to ford the river near the “smuggler’s paradise†of Roma, Texas. Once in the water, Border Patrol agents and Texas officials appeared on the bank. So the smugglers threw an infant into the waters and capsized the rafts.
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