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Cooper: Immigration crisis at Southern border is a mess of Biden’s exacerbation

The Associated Press / Migrants are seen in a green area outside of a detention center after they recently were taken into custody while trying to sneak into the U.S. in Donna, Texas.
The Associated Press / Migrants are seen in a green area outside of a detention center after they recently were taken into custody while trying to sneak into the U.S. in Donna, Texas. The Associated Press / Migrants are seen in a green area outside of a detention center after they recently were taken into custody while trying to sneak into the U.S. in Donna, Texas.

By Clint Cooper 5 min read

The immigration crisis at the country’s Southern border is solely of President Joe Biden’s making, and the sad thing is it didn’t have to happen.

The new Democratic president and his party were so determined to reverse anything that former President Donald Trump did about immigration that they didn’t take the time to differentiate among what had been done well, what could be improved and what had not been done well.

Had they not signaled with their words and their actions that the U.S. would welcome as many migrants as could come, they would not be in the position in which they find themselves.

Today, they face an immigration situation worse than anything in the last two years, and their actions are both harmful to those from Mexico and Central America who put their stock in Biden’s words and dangerous for the country into which they seek to enter.

In February, the United States Border Patrol apprehended nearly 100,000 migrants at the Mexico border, the most since 2019. Numbers had fallen to just 16,182 in April 2020, shortly after the coronavirus pandemic virtually closed the border and slowed migration around the world.