Humanitarian Crisis on the U.S./Mexico Border

The heartbreaking nightly news reports on migrants on the streets of El Paso, Texas in freezing temperatures   The human tragedy is breathtaking.  Al Jazeera soberly outlines the plight of the people, the policy issues, and the political realities.  The report ends on an ominous note:

“That was echoed by Brad Jones, a political science professor at UC Davis, who urged the Biden administration to drop the US’s longstanding policy of deterrence in favour of more humane measures on immigration.

` Issue more visas, lift immigration quotas, better fund immigration courts,’ he said. `But the issue has become so politicised that I don’t see that happening.

`It’s a pressure cooker ready to explode.’”

KJ