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You guys are attempting to set up a chicken/egg scenario whereby you absolve Joe Biden of any responsibility for the border crisis.
Won't work. The reason why it won't work is that none other than Joe Biden himself said that everything was fine and dandy down south for the first 3 years of his presidency.
Not at all. If you want to criticize Joe Biden for not acknowledging some time in late 2021 or early 2022 that we didn't have the infrastructure necessary to process the increased flow of asylees, I will share in that criticism. Much as the Administration did with inflation rates, their position was to assume - and then act as if - the condition was "transitory." They asserted that the increase was only a short-term phenomenon resulting from pent-up migrants who had been hindered by Covid quarantines up and down Central America, and that the wave would be short-lived.
They were wrong. And because they were wrong, they weren't prioritizing getting Congress to change the appropriations and the laws governing asylum seekers.
But recognizing that fact doesn't mean that Biden caused the problems at the border. Or that it's a situation that rests entirely, or even primarily, with the Administration. For years, we have a mismatch between what the immigration enforcement system is set up to do (return Mexican nationals immediately back over the border) and what it needs to do now (process non-Mexican asylum claims).
Biden blew the politics of the issue, but it was always something that squarely lands on Congress to fix (which is why Trump couldn't fix it either in 2018 and 2019, before Covid hit).
