Why the border is in crisis under Biden

Published January 21, 2022 12:00am ET



The year was 2018. The United States was facing yet another wave of illegal immigration across the southwest border.

I would say it was like Groundhog Day, but things seemed very different then. In past years, most illegal immigrants were adult men from Mexico. Now, the majority were from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, but over 130 different nationalities were mixed in. Thousands of families were entering illegally, then surrendering to the first agents they can find to claim asylum.

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