Axios: “How Biden botched the border”

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Axios offers an interesting assessment of disarray in the Biden White House on immigration policy.  I found it informative .  One interesting passage:

“The crisis grew slowly. Many administration leaders treated the issue like a hot potato because it was politically thankless, several sources in and out of government told Axios.

• The idea that no one wanted to “own it” came up repeatedly in interviews about the border crisis. But the problem required a robust and coordinated response at several levels of the federal government.
• As the humanitarian conditions at the border have deteriorated and the politics surrounding immigration have become a thorn for Biden, he becomes scratchier when the issue comes up, according to current and former aides.
• “There are definite incentives … to not be the person who owns the scary issue with no solutions,” a former government official close to the issue told Axios.” 

KJ