A caravan of 8,000 Central American migrants, which was halted last week in Guatemala, will pose the first big test of Joe Biden’s administration. It’s not a test of Biden’s immigration policy but rather of his resolve and determination to put public safety first.

Biden has promised to reverse most of President Trump’s immigration policy almost immediately. The question the caravan poses is not really about immigration but about whether Biden intends to permit lawlessness, disorder, and avoidable threats to public health amid a raging pandemic, merely in order to show just how pro-immigration he can be.