What were they thinking? Did President Joe Biden and the folks who put together his immigration policy imagine that the voting public would celebrate policies that resulted in a record-high number of migration encounters — more than three-quarters of a million — in the usually low-immigration months of October, November, and December 2023?

Did they think that letting in hundreds of thousands of people they would classify preliminarily as “asylum-seekers,” and telling them to report for hearings as late as 2031, would go unnoticed?