Immigration has emerged as a dominant point of debate heading into the 2024 presidential election. Like so much of our discourse, there is more heat than light surrounding the matter. And yet the facts of the case are remarkably clear. After President Joe Biden suspended many of his predecessor Donald Trump’s enforcement mechanisms, millions of immigrants poured across the southern border.

Encouraged by Biden’s lax enforcement and spurred by nongovernmental organizations, they have made spurious claims to refugee status. Presumably, the overwhelming bulk of the claims should be denied asylum, either because they are flat-out false or because the immigrants failed to follow the established legal procedures. But they’ve been paroled en masse into the United States, with court dates years hence to adjudicate their claims.