Whom should U.S. immigration policy ultimately serve? Are the nation’s immigration laws designed to cater to the interests of billions of potential migrants throughout the world who want to come to the United States? Or should they be designed to protect American citizens?

If it wasn’t already clear where President Joe Biden comes down on this question, he made it explicit last week, when U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services changed its mission statement for the second time in just three years.