Illegal Immigration Is Not a Fact of Nature
U.S. Border Patrol deal with a large group of migrants who have gathered between the primary and secondary border fences as the United States prepares to lift Covid-era Title 42 restrictions, near San Diego, Calif., May 11, 2023.(Mike Blake/Reuters)
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By JASON RICHWINE
May 23, 2023 6:05 PM
It’s a policy choice. Nevertheless, the Biden administration and allied media are speaking of the massive influx at the southern border as if it were a hurricane or a business-cycle recession — a common but unpredictable phenomenon that the current president just happens to be stuck with. That’s why a reporter recently demanded that Ted Cruz explain what he has been doing to secure the border in his time as a Texas senator. It’s also why the administration insisted that the initial surge in 2021 was “seasonal,” then began to redirect blame to “root causes,” and now finally complains that Congress should have passed reform legislation 20 years ago.
The truth is that the Biden administration has chosen to allow millions of migrants to enter the U.S. without visas. In fact, rarely in public policy is cause and effect as obvious as it is here. The Trump administration had ended the massive flows principally by requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases were adjudicated. Because most of these asylum seekers were actually economic migrants who are ineligible for asylum under traditional rules, they simply went home rather than wait for the hearing. Their failure to gain entry then discouraged other would-be migrants from making the trip.
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