One hallmark of the immigration debate is for those who favor open border to egg on illegal immigration, watch the flood start, then throw up their hands and blame Republicans.

But that's not what we're doing, in this thread. I'm trying to have a conversation with you.

Immigration law is set by Congress, as is the budget for any measures that might be taken to deal with immigrants. The President is in charge of administering those laws and resources, but at the end of the day they have only limited ability to affect the flow of asylum seekers. That's why Trump wasn't able to do it. Asylum seekers flooded the U.S. in 2019, because Trump couldn't build walls or have the Border Patrol use force to stop them or have Mexico keep them from reaching the border. Apprehensions in FY 2019 doubled to nearly a million. The Great Border Crisis began under Trump, not Biden....

cbp.gov - Sw border migration

What saved Trump's bacon on that issue was Covid. He was able to use the public health powers of the CDC to block immigrants that normally would have been allowed under U.S. law to maintain a presence in the U.S. pending their asylum claims. But that's not an option anymore - not only has the pandemic ebbed away from any claim to be able to use that authority, but the SCOTUS has adopted a much stricter view of those types of emergency powers. Title 42 isn't available to Biden, and it won't be available to Trump.

So seriously - what specifically do you think the administration ought to be doing? This isn't a "blame Republicans" question. If the Administration is doing something significantly wrong, as you're suggesting, what is it that they ought to be doing differently?