If we are going to leave the golden door ajar, the obligations to care for those who enter cannot be borne solely on the basis of a community’s proximity to the border, writes JimAntle.
It should go without saying that any coercion or deception employed to expedite their transport is wrong. But that deception begins with the moral hazard created by the sparsely guarded border and selectively enforced laws.
“Surges tend to respond to hope, and there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four years of, you know, pent-up demand,” Ambassador Robert Jacobson, who was then the coordinator for the southern border, told reporters at a White House press briefing on March 10, 2021. “So I don't know whether I would call that a coincidence, but I certainly think that the idea that a more humane policy would be in place may have driven people to make that decision.
At least 1.66 million people were arrested illegally entering the country in 2021. That number is set to surpass 2 million this year. Pent-up demand, indeed. Jean-Pierre on Friday presented the millions of Border Patrol apprehensions themselves as an immigration enforcement success story rather than a sign of the border’s brokenness, repeating what the “Biden-Harris administration has been doing since day one, including on the first day of putting forth a comprehensive immigration reform to deal with this issue.”
When Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, is a fearsome destination for 50 people, what happens when 50,000 people find themselves in less affluent areas, sometimes living underneath highway underpasses?
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