Nolan Rappaport: “Border crisis deepens as governors assert control”

Nolan Rappaport for the Hill calls for the Biden administration to adopt more enforcement measures to quell the political  pressure from some states:  “This is not going to end well for Biden or the country unless he reinstates Trump’s border security measures or finds some other way to secure the border before the political battle he is having with the governors gets out of hand.”  I tend to disagree but do agree that the Biden administration needs to focus its attention on immigration, including in seeking to push for some kind of immigration reform.   Immigrant advocates have pushed for change from the Trump years and have been buoyed by some of the changes, such as the end of the Migrant Protection Protocols.

The big question is what must be done to jumpstart discussion of immigration reform.  As we learned during the Obama years, reform will not just come about spontaneously or by deporting more noncitizens than any President in U.S. history (a dubious achievement of President Obama, the “deporter in chief”).  It is time for a new game plan.  Otherwise, the immigration system will remain broken and immigrant communities devastated on a regular basis, whoever the President.

KJ