Subject: Re: GA killer was paroled into country
Hmm...except for the fact that Joe Robinette Biden campaigned on welcoming immigrants through the front door...and rather loudly announced he was reversing every Trump-era policy that he could. Which he did, btw.

But the increase in asylum backlogs increased well before he ever took office. The real uptick started late in the Obama Administration, and continued unchecked through the Trump Administration:

https://trac.syr.edu/reports/7...

Biden certainly had very different rhetoric than Trump - but Trump's policies were largely ineffective at slowing the increase in asylees entering the country. Many of his policies were struck down before being implemented, he never built much "wall," and only the Covid pandemic did anything to (temporarily) slow down migration flows everywhere globally. There's no evidence that any of this is the result of Biden's campaign rhetoric.

No, Biden isn't at fault for the entire mess along the border - this has been a festering issue since Reagan. We've refused to fund real security along the southern border, we've refused to crack down on coyotes and drug runners, we've refused to go after employers who knowingly hire people who are ineligible to work and we still have states who pass things like this:

Perhaps - but I think it's a problem if we don't recognize that the current situation also involves something new. This isn't a festering, Reagan-era problem. Asylum requests (both affirmative and defensive) used to be a much smaller proportion of the migrant population. The "border issue" of 1980's through about 2016 was one of mostly Mexican nationals entering the country for avowedly economic reasons - so you could use the expedited removal process authorized by Clinton to just send them back over the border. So if you caught them, you didn't need to worry about giving them an asylum hearing or detaining them for any length of time. But you can't use expedited removal for non-Mexican asylees - which means you have to have a system that can process them timely.