Biden Doesn’t Have a Border Plan, Likely for Good Reason
Few Americans know the facts about illegal immigration, and most Democrats don’t care
By Andrew R. Arthur on December 27, 2022
The looming end of CDC orders mandating the expulsion of illegal migrants, issued under Title 42 of the U.S. Code in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, raises the question of how the administration plans on dealing with record numbers of aliens entering the United States illegally at the Southwest border. It doesn’t appear the administration has a plan, however, aside from funneling increasing numbers of migrants into the United States indefinitely. The logical explanation for this fecklessness is that few Americans know the facts about the border and Biden’s Democratic base doesn’t care about illegal migration, so he doesn’t care either.
Trump’s Border Policies. Biden is not the only president who has dealt with a migrant surge — just the most recent.
When faced with a much smaller crisis at the Southwest border in FY 2019 — a year in which Border Patrol apprehended just over 851,500 migrants there — the Trump administration implemented numerous policies to stem the tide of illegal entries.
The most prominent, and successful, of those policies was the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), better known as “Remain in Mexico”. Under MPP, non-Mexican aliens apprehended at the Southwest border were returned to Mexico to await their asylum hearings at border “port courts”. If granted asylum, they were admitted, but if denied, they were removed.
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