The crisis on the US southern border has shown that Democrats should not abandon the system simply because of contempt for its creator
As News Front previously reported, among Joe Biden’s campaign promises was the reversal of Donald Trump’s tough migration policy. Democrats had been criticising the measures taken by the Republican administration for years, so Biden ordered a rollback of his predecessor’s system on the first day of his presidency.
Biden made a terrible mistake, writes the US publication Newsweek. The Democrat’s decision triggered the biggest influx of migrants in the last twenty years. Border and customs officials have been so overwhelmed that the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have had to be dispatched to help.
Huge numbers of people took Biden’s plans as a signal and rushed to the US border. In February alone, US border guards detained about 100,000 migrants trying to enter the country from Mexico.
The consequence has been a humanitarian crisis, a flourishing of smugglers and the abuse of women and children. Moreover, four people on the terrorist list have been detained while trying to enter the US, and it is not known how many have managed to evade border guards.
Given the above, it is clear that the system set up by Trump worked, and effectively, Newsweek stresses. Newsweek argued that Biden was not wise to abandon his predecessor’s work. In addition, he made his decision unilaterally, although migration laws should be passed at the level of the US Congress.
Ben Carson, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development “The Biden administration needs to build on these successful policies and show the American people that they are willing to take enforcement seriously, instead of destroying those policies that worked just because they don’t like the person who put them in place.”