The Biden administration should increase appropriately trained personnel at the border using funds currently allocated toward immigration enforcement and detention.
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Asylum seekers gaze over the Rio Grande before crossing from Mexico into the United States from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. | John Moore/Getty Images
I CAN SEE MEXICO FROM MY HOUSE Sometimes, after his bath and before bedtime, my almost 2-year old asks to go out on the balcony at the back of the house we rent in El Paso to look at cars. He doesn’t know it, of course, but he’s staring across the border at houses and mountains and cars in Ciudad Juárez. Aside from the dust storms, the desert heat and the abundance of cacti, the thing that has been most striking to me since we moved here last year is our closenes
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Each raised his or her hand, including front-runner Joe Biden.
From that stage, the message went forth: If the Democrats win this election, then it is amnesty for all and open borders in America.
The message was reinforced by repeated Democratic praise for sanctuary cities, by calls to “abolish ICE” and end deportations, by pledges to stop work on Donald Trump’s wall, if not to tear it down.
Message sent to Mexico, Central America and the Third World:
If the Democrats win and you make it across the border into the United States, under President Joe Biden, you will not be sent back. After only a brief hassle, the economic opportunities and social welfare benefits of the richest country on earth will be open to you and yours.