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The intellectual roots of Biden’s border failure

By Conn Carroll
Published December 22, 2023 2:43pm ET
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The intellectual roots of Biden’s border failure
Hundreds of migrants, mostly from African countries, gather along the border waiting to be brought into custody after breaking through gaps in the border wall Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Lukeville, Arizona. The U.S. Border Patrol says it is overwhelmed by a shift in human smuggling routes, with hundreds of migrants from faraway countries such as Senegal, Bangladesh, and China being dropped in the remote desert area in Arizona.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The new “pathways” created by President Joe Biden were supposed to encourage migrants to cross in an orderly, “legal” fashion, thus decreasing illegal border crossings.

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