President-elect Joe Biden sparked outrage among activists when, a month before Inauguration Day, he retreated from his promise to unravel President Trump's restrictive immigration regime on Day One.
Biden is right to worry that undoing Trump's aggressive enforcement regime would prompt a spike in illegal immigration, but his proposed solution-rolling back Trump's regulations slowly-misses what would cause that rush in the first place.
The problem with Biden's immigration plan is not its speed of execution, but its lack of any principle that would limit immigration, illegal or otherwise.
Biden will end the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy, instead allowing asylum-seekers into the U.S., where they can then skip out on immigration court hearings.
Biden will return to the Obama administration's "Priority Enforcement" regime, which requires Immigration and Customs Enforcement to focus on serious criminal offenders.
As it relaxes enforcement, the Biden administration will also look the other way on illegal immigration.
Biden and his advisors doubtless regard their soft-touch approach as the most humanitarian option, but by welcoming a surge of illegal immigration, they invite mass suffering in the name of compassion.
https://www.city-journal.org/next-border-crisis-will-be-bidens
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